Corporate (Ir)Responsibility (Part II): Deregulation and Catastrophe.

Unf*cking The Republic

UNFTR Media

Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 30 April 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

We briefly recap what we covered in Part I as a refresher then launch into some of the more egregious examples of how corporations have used their political leverage to create massive tax loopholes and that have left them flush with cash. This preposterous sum of cash has also given corporations the ability to flout regulations they have yet to rewrite by simply paying fines instead of complying with the law. For the first time we also hear directly from this show’s dead nemesis, Milton Friedman, to understand how contributed to the scaffolding around the corporate wall of fuckery that helped corporate America wage war on the consumer. We conclude with a warning about e-commerce giant Amazon and highlight critical changes that must be made to our system of regulations and taxation to take back some of the power corporations have gained over the past fifty years.

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0:00.0	A working class hero is something to be.
0:12.4	Working class hero is something to be.
0:17.4	Welcome back on fuckers, subfuckers, face fuckers, Instafuckers, and Twitter fuckers. Thank you for joining
0:22.1	us for part two of corporate irresponsibility, where we're in the process of uncovering
0:26.3	financial fuckery, corporate misdeeds, and tax evasion schemes brought to bear on an unsuspecting
0:31.5	public under the auspices of the greater good and the natural order of the capitalist system.
0:37.0	So first we need to acknowledge
0:38.0	something that happened between releases. The granddaddy of corporate so-called liberal media
0:43.1	did a thing. Ah, here we go. Humble brag alert. What? What am I going to do? Ignore the fact that
0:49.8	the New York Times highlighted unfucking the Republic in the arts section along with seven other
0:54.6	left-leaning podcasts in the country?
0:57.1	I don't know.
0:57.5	I was kind of hoping you would.
0:59.1	Fine.
1:00.0	Then I won't talk about how we were featured alongside long-running and massive shows in an
1:04.1	article titled Post-Trump America Sounds Like This and how it brought us thousands of new listeners
1:08.4	who have joined the unfucking movement.
1:10.2	Oh, Lord, it's hard to be humble when you're perfect in every way.
1:17.8	Seriously, if you're new to the show and joining us from the Times article, we're very
1:21.6	grateful that you're here.
1:23.1	Unfuckers in the Vanguard have a bit of a head start on you in terms of the themes and
1:26.4	concepts that we explore in this pod, so hopefully you'll indulge some of our prior shows as well.
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