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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

CRASH PARTY 1929 - THE "ARK" OF COMMERCE

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, Politics, History

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

We are replaying our series on American business history with an eye to its inseparable effect on politics. In this look at American commercial history we discuss the Black Thursday Stock market crash, the early career of Thomas Edison, how a popular game evolved from a anticorporate activist, and how Wall Street was once in Philadelphia, so to speak.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

0:04.6

The corporate world is like the ocean.

0:06.9

It's alluring, but it's also full of deadly creatures that can shred you to pieces.

0:11.0

It becomes kind of like a Game of Thrones political arena where everyone's trying to murder you to get your job.

0:17.4

My family doesn't come from corporate background, so I didn't have any sort of guidance in

0:21.3

that. This is not your typical work podcast. Sometimes you need to be empathetic. And then there are

0:25.9

times that you ask for input, but you don't really give a shit in your not. Listen to the Ambie Award

0:29.8

nominated podcast, surfing corporate. Stretch opportunity. What does this yoga class? Get out of here.

0:39.6

Lizzie Maggie Phillips, an activist, knew that the secret to getting the message out was a game.

0:47.2

Music The problems of the country were so vast in 2003. The problems of the country were so vast in 2003.

1:14.1

The income and quality that she was seeing was so strong, and how corporations worked,

1:21.0

how things were stacked against the average person, was so hard to describe.

1:25.2

The picket sign and the chanting, it could only go so far. To get

1:29.2

progressive change, people had to feel the situation and feel the changes that might be needed.

1:37.7

So she created a board game. Board games were becoming very popular, the turn of the century,

1:43.7

and there were numerous games involved.

1:47.2

She made her game's goal exactly where she felt American society was going, the accumulation of wealth.

1:55.3

You rolled dice. You moved around a board. You collected paper money. You could buy properties. And you had to

2:06.5

avoid paying taxes. You landed on utilities that cost your money. Sometimes you got money from the

2:14.0

community chest. When you did land on a space, you had a chance to buy the

2:18.2

property. And when you bought a property, eventually you'd have a chance to put real estate on it.

2:23.2

And when you did, you'd charge other people rent. But beware, because you could go to jail

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