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I am thinking today about how we are complicit with our own oppression, particularly how we mindlessly participate in a system

that at the end of the day exploits every single one of us. In some form of fashion, each and every one of us,

unless we make our livelihood off of capital gains.

If you go to work, if you consume because you need items to survive, in some form or fashion, you are

exploited by this system. Don't let your, don't let your savings account fool you. Okay? Don't let the fact that you have a nice title in front of your name or nice letters at the end of your name fool you.

At some level we are all exploited by this system and at some level every single one of us

are complicit with it by participating in it. And this isn't to lay

blame at our feet in order to make us feel bad, but it's to point out the fact that

we have some strength and some power in our hands if we ever use it.

And not just if we ever use it, the first step is to recognize it, the second step is to

organize it, and then the third step is to leverage it

The first step is to recognize the power that we have in our hands and the way we recognize the power we have in our hands is to understand how we have

How we have been a part of our own

oppression. Let's get through some specifics. Two examples. The first one I've

used on this show all the time. The power of the consumer we collectively if we ever recognized it

organized it and then leveraged the power of the consumer we would bring this government to its knees.

We would bring this capitalistic system to its knees, to the point where they would be begging us,

asking us whatever they could do so that we could start spending our money to

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