Inequality and the New Feudalism

The Political Orphanage

Andrew Heaton

Comedy, Moderate, Politics, Independent, News, Nonpartisan, Libertarian

5 • 951 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Joel Kotkin worries that we're careening into a new bout of feudalism.

He sees a resurgence of intellectual dogmatism, coupled with inequality and lack of mobility, pushing civilization back into a feudalistic power structure of lords, peasants, and priests.

He joins to discuss his book "The Coming Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class"

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky misfits and problem solvers.
0:14.0	I'm your host Andrew Heaton coming to you for the very last episode of 2022.
0:20.0	Unless we enter another time quake.
0:23.0	Ugh, 1998 was horrible both times.
0:27.0	This week, we sit down with none other than Joel Copkin
0:31.0	to discuss his book and theory that we are tumbling into a period of
0:35.4	re-micro-waived feudalism. A few weeks back I spoke to crusty old
0:40.0	Texan Senator Phil Graham about inequality and this is a great episode to
0:44.5	contrast with it. All made possible by the patrons of this program who do so via
0:51.4	Patreon. You can join them by going to Patreon.com
0:54.8	slash Andrew Heaton. What of these fine folks do you ask? Well the patrons keep me
1:00.3	employed which keeps you entertained. Also they chew through logs and
1:05.3	sticks and assemble them into rivers which build dams. Wait no that's
1:10.4	beavers. That last one is beavers. Why don't I keep confusing patrons with beavers?
1:15.4	Anyway, you know what patrons get they get bonus episodes this week I am bringing on an expert in
1:21.7	feudalism as a dessert course for today's entree.
1:25.4	Today I speak with Joel Kotkin about inequality, corporate power, and green
1:30.9	wokeness as religion and the new priests of the new age.
1:35.5	All good stuff.
1:36.5	Mr. Kotkin will be looking at the trajectory of our economy and drawing parallels with
1:40.9	old feudalism.
1:41.9	But in this week's bonus episode, I will speak with
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