(2013/02/10) Part 1: Corporations are not immoral, they're amoral (Economics)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 11 February 2013
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Edition #686
Part 1: Corporations are not immoral, they're amoral
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Why Do You Do What You Do? - Lee Camp - Air Date: 12-27-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Motivation - Quietdrive
Ch. 4: Act 2: Corporate America: A Whale in a Fish Tank - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 01-10-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Whale - Set Sail
Ch. 6: Act 3: Morgan Stanley Sold 'Nuclear' Investments, Cashed In - Young Turks - Air Date 1-23-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Down with the sickness - Richard Cheese
Ch. 8: Act 4: AIG shareholders sue US over terms of their bailout - The Bugle - Air Date 1-11-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Fuck you - Vitamin String Quartet
Ch. 10: Act 5: Clift Settlement - A Crony Capitalist Blowout - Moyers And Company - Air Date 1-11-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Which side are you on? - Natalie Merchant
Ch. 12: Act 6: Debt Ceiling Caves in on Republicans - Young Turks - Air Date 1-23-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Banks of Marble - Pete Seeger
Ch. 14: Act 7: Income Inequality is GOOD! says CNBC - Majority Report - Air Date: 01-15-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: It's a fine life - Alice Playten, Donald Pippin & Georgia Brown
Ch. 16: Act 8: The TRUTH Behind The Bankruptcy Of An All-American Company - Lee Camp - Air Date: 01-22-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: Touch of grey - Grateful Dead
Ch. 18: Act 9: Zombie Titles - More Horrifying Than Home Foreclosure - Young Turks - Air Date: 01-16-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 19: Rape is not driven by sexual desire - Tayna in California
Ch. 20: One of the worst arguments against polygamy - Anonymous
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 21: Final comments on restricting freedom over logistics and the amorality of corporations
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.6 | For details, visit the membership tab at bestivalleft.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning bestival left podcast with group today from comedian Lee |
| 0:12.6 | Camp, the Tom Harman program, the Young Turks, the Bugle, Moyers & Company, and the majority |
| 0:17.7 | report. |
| 0:18.7 | And a note for our more sensitive listeners, this episode may come across as outright dehumanizing |
| 0:23.4 | to legal entities who are literally not human. |
| 0:30.0 | Look, I have no problem with money. |
| 0:32.7 | Who doesn't like money? |
| 0:33.7 | It's good for buying things, you're giving to a stripper, you want to spend more time |
| 0:37.8 | with, or buying things for a stripper, a friend, or paying off a stripper when she knows |
| 0:42.9 | too much. |
| 0:43.9 | It's stuffing in a stripper's G-Strike. |
| 0:45.4 | You ever tried to tuck compliments or a poem in a stripper's thong, it infuriates them. |
| 0:52.2 | So I have no problem with money. |
| 0:54.0 | Well, except for the fact that it's a measurement and we all treat it as if it's true wealth |
| 0:58.0 | and the debt inherent in it is a huge issue that we hardly get the point. |
| 1:03.3 | But anyway, money has its good side. |
| 1:05.8 | It's undeniable that many great things have been created in the pursuit of cash. |
| 1:10.0 | But when things are done only for money, purely for dollars, that thing ends up sucking |
| 1:17.9 | f***ing. |
| 1:19.5 | When movies are done only for money, you get the Transformers and battleship and fast |
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