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The Owen Jones Podcast

Capitalist Accidentally Exposes Capitalism

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

OK, I know what you're thinking: 'this guy is a pantomime villain, 'yuck', 'I can't believe how awful these people are'. But this capitalist accidentally revealed the truth about capitalism - and it needs to be heard.



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0:00.0

This capitalist has told the truth, and what he says

0:03.2

exposes how the capitalist system itself works,

0:07.3

how the class system works to boot.

0:10.2

Now, you might hear this guy in think,

0:12.4

what are the noxious, rich pantomime villain

0:16.3

with horrible unpleasant opinions?

0:19.3

And you would be correct.

0:21.0

But it's so important to listen to this,

0:23.3

if you want to understand how capitalism really takes.

0:26.4

Do brace yourselves, though, because...

0:29.4

I think the problem that we've had is that we've...

0:31.9

Yeah, we have...

0:33.8

People decided they didn't really want to work so much anymore

0:36.6

through COVID, and that has had a massive issue on productivity.

0:39.8

You know, traders have definitely pulled back on productivity.

0:42.8

Yeah, they have been paid a lot to do not too much in the last few years.

0:48.2

And we need to see that change.

0:49.2

We need to see unemployment rise.

0:50.6

Unemployment has to jump 40-50 percent in my view.

0:53.7

We need to see pain in the economy.

0:55.0

We need to remind people that they work for the employer,

0:58.3

not the other way around.

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