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Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left Podcasts with Coups today from Economic

Update, the Young Turks, Democracy Now, Radio Dispatch, the Hunting Ground, the Perfect

Victim and Brook Axtel.

So could you begin by giving us a kind of an overview of what has happened to personal

relationships, let's call it, in the last 30 to 40 years?

I want to set this up to look at what has happened as the personal fallout from the

desertion of U.S. workers and the export of U.S. jobs overseas as well as their replacement

with computers.

Because what happened in the 70s is that computers replaced millions of jobs and multinational

communication systems enabled multinational corporations overseas to function without

ecological restraints without workers' rights and with much lower salaries.

So that, and what happened economically, which had huge impact personally, was that Americans

were lulled into a sense that we were an exceptional people, particularly white Americans since

African Americans and minorities were eliminated from the American dream.

But during the 70s, the majority of Americans were white and that's changing.

So for 150 years from 1820 to 1970, wages and profits rose together.

White male workers got extra bonuses, one for being white, one for being male, and got

higher wages, in fact, called family wages, wages that could support a family.

Well, that ended in the 1970s and white men were disempowered.

The whole family system, which was the traditional family of the wage earning white male and

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