Quinn Slobodian
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jun
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So there's all kinds of attention to the ways that a social willingness to go along with a business model ends up getting secured, sometimes through violent clashes, sometimes through peaceful negotiation.
But that's how then through that means also through redistributive taxation, you get a kind of working model where democracy and capitalism can coexist relatively happily.
Well, I mean, if you think about it not being just about Ford, but being just about kind of like the era of manufacturing in American life more generally.
Right.
Mass production plus mass consumption.
Right.
Hospitable set of laws to allow for the owners to keep, you know, a growing amount of the wages.
Children can work.
Well, I mean, eventually, you know, that got expelled.
But so you have like a cooperative relationship between the lawmaking state and the profit making corporation.
And people somehow were united.
the number of people being brought into that arrangement was growing over time such that it had a kind of stability and even the welfare state in its, you know, in its vestigial way that exists in the United States.
Well, you can see as a kind of outcome of the Fortis compromise, right?
The kind of the great society programs, social security, Medicaid are about saying, well,
We need to keep a relatively healthy working class because if people dying of typhus are walking in the factory gates at the beginning of the day, the cars are going to get made.
So there is a kind of virtuous, pragmatic cycle that you could say existed at that time.
Yeah.
And, you know, and college education and all kinds of things.
I mean, there are all kinds of material ways that life got better for Americans in the mid-century.
And that's in sharp contrast with our present moment of digital capitalism, where actually for most people, life is getting worse.
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