Is capitalism in its flop era?

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🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In 2017, Today, Explained co-host Noel King says she started getting a vibe: young people were discussing and dissecting capitalism. She began noticing the word in pop culture and cultural reporting — but found her own tribe of economics reporters were missing from the conversation. Flash forward to 2023, and the word capitalism is all over politics and culture: it's on the stage at the Republican debates, it's on the picket lines and the language of union strikes from Hollywood to New York City, it's even in the new Indiana Jones movie. How did we get here — and has talking about capitalism made us more divided? Noel King joins host Brittany Luse to discuss her new multi-part series exploring how a new generation of Americans are coming to terms with capitalism.

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0:12.6	Feel comfortable about tomorrow.
0:18.0	Hey, hey, you're listening to it's been a minute from NPR.
0:21.2	I'm Brittany Luce.
0:22.4	And today on the show, we're talking about the Sea Word.
0:26.4	By which I mean Capitalism.
0:29.8	It's an especially potent word this year.
0:32.6	As hot strike summer looks like it might turn into hot strike fall,
0:36.6	unions across several industries are pointing out how hard workers lives are under this system.
0:42.6	Even for the most seemingly glamorous of industries,
0:46.1	actors guild president Fran Drescher has tweeted several times
0:50.4	about capitalist greed being the root of the world's problems.
0:54.2	We are labor and we stand tall.
0:57.8	You share the wealth because you cannot exist without us.
1:02.8	Thank you.
1:04.0	On the other end of the spectrum,
1:05.8	people like Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswami
1:09.2	are also questioning what they see as an abuse of capitalism.
1:13.4	This is the game of the woke capitalist.
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