Welcome to Pick Me Up. I'm scared. The podcast.

I'm your host Madeline.

And I'm your co-host, David.

Um, okay. So starting at the episode, Normal Housekeeping Behavior, David, you get internet tomorrow, which means you'll be active on our Patreon again.

Yeah, yeah. I got the modem today.

I picked it up.

I just need to install it.

You had to pick it up?

I went to the AT&T store.

The Earthlink thing ended up not working out.

I feel like Earthlink wouldn't work out.

Yeah. If I had to guess.

Yeah.

Okay, so you'll be back on answering messages on Patreon. Yeah, and I'm watching TV tonight for the first time.

Oh my God, that's so exciting. You got your first TV. We got at the thrift store.

Yeah, it was great.

It's thrilling.

It's huge. I didn't even were talking about this when we got the TV, but like the TV to me is a shining example of all the failures of capitalism like we discussed. Because it's the only

part where it's actually gotten cheaper or the only thing. So theoretically under capitalism,

we get so good at making things that the longer we're making a certain type of thing, not only

does the thing get better, but worker efficiency and productivity goes up, which means that the

labor cost should go down. So if capitalism was working as beautifully and as efficiently, it does the thing get better, but worker efficiency and productivity goes up, which means that the labor

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