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Commune with Jeff Krasno

122. Commusings: You Split. I Choose.

Commune with Jeff Krasno

Commune Media

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.6654 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Each week Jeff has been writing a Sunday article called Commusings where we take a moment to think deeply on the topics of spirituality, philosophy, and culture. Today’s episode focuses on income inequality, distributive justice, and John Rawls’ “veil of ignorance.” To receive the Commusings newsletter, you can go to onecommune.com and sign up at the bottom of the page.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Commune podcast. This is Jeff Krasno. How many of you may receive my weekly Sunday commusing article where I address a breadth of societal issues from the spiritual to the political.

0:17.8

And on occasion, I will also record an audio version of these articles and release

0:23.3

them as bonus episodes. So today's podcast is derived from my article focused on justice and

0:30.2

income inequality. If you are interested in receiving my weekly article, sign up at onecomun.com.

0:37.4

And if you're not completely sick of me,

0:39.9

you can follow me on Instagram at Jeff Krasna. So, without further ado, here is this week's

0:45.9

commusing entitled, You Split, I Choose. You are hosting a big party.

1:00.5

Not right now, obviously, but in the future.

1:03.6

You must be extremely popular because heaps more people than expected are showing up.

1:09.1

And now you're out of seven-layer bean dip. Only remnant

1:13.0

crumbs of tortilla chips litter the bottoms of bowls. And someone is licking the thin paste of

1:19.3

remaining ranch dip off the veggie platter. You can sense a fomenting hangar and you spring into

1:26.2

action. You call your local pizza joint and order the world's largest ever pie.

1:32.2

Fifteen minutes later, four stone dudes, including a guy you dated in high school,

1:36.3

show up with a 20-foot radius pizza.

1:39.8

They carry it in like a hupa and drop it on your front patio.

1:43.9

You open the box and behold a shade dove of oozing mozzarella, fresh arugula, crisp

1:50.4

panchetta, and perfectly thin crust.

1:54.0

Immediately though, you notice something amiss.

1:57.3

The pizza is not sliced.

2:00.3

And here's where this light-hearted rom becomes a philosophical conundrum.

2:05.0

You must cut up the pizza, but you don't know what piece you'll end up with.

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