Caro Claire Burke
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4,515 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 23 Aug
Caro Claire Burke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Democrats and Republicans divvied them up.
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Ah,
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The conservative agenda did something else, too.
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It cast production as a function of unfettered markets.
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Supply-side economics was about getting the government out of the private sector's way, cutting taxes so people would work more, cutting regulations so companies would produce more.
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But what of the places where society needed a supply of something that the market could not or would not provide on its own?
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Yeah, let's come back to that.
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This is where you might have expected Democrats to step in.
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But Democrats, cowed by the Reagan revolution and frightened of being seen as socialists, largely confined themselves to working on the demand side of the ledger.
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Progressivism's promises and policies for decades were built around giving people money or money-like vouchers to go out and buy something that the market was producing but that the poor could not afford.
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So just really quickly—
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This makes me think about our Rise and Fall of Capitalism episode that you did and how you pointed out that like a fundamental misunderstanding of capitalism is that people say like that is innovation will always solve or like work towards our greatest issues.
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And it's like, actually, we see that that's not the case time and time again.
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They're basically describing capitalism
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What is it functionally a failure of capitalism that it's like, yeah, no, it's actually not going to innovate for the things that we need.
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The only way for us to fix the things that we need would be more control.
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And then they're also being like, but then no one wants to be a socialist.
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And it's like, but you're describing something that is fundamentally socialist in nature,
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would be trying to take over more control of the market to make sure that we're innovating in the right direction.
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It's like they're retrofitting what they think capitalism should be rather than what it is.
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