IS THE GIG UP ON THE GIG ECONOMY?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 9 May 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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How do we stop corporate America from shoving fascism down our throat?
Professor Richard Wolff joins Thom to decide if the gig is up on the Gig Economy?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:16.9 | And greetings, my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers |
| 0:21.8 | and peace, freedom and the American way, Tom Hartman here with you. |
| 0:25.7 | We've got a lot on the program today. |
| 0:28.3 | There's new moratorium on evictions that a Trump judge just blew up, Congress had appropriated |
| 0:35.2 | well over $10 billion to help renters pay their rent and keep landlords' whole. |
| 0:42.5 | And that was supposed to be distributed over the next month or two. |
| 0:45.4 | The moratorium expired on June 30th. |
| 0:47.8 | A Trump judge just blew it up, which just completely scrambles the whole thing. |
| 0:52.6 | Professor Richard Wolfe is going to drop by, it's the gig up on the gig economy. |
| 0:57.8 | And I want to get into my rant from today about how do we stop corporate America from shoving |
| 1:02.3 | fascism down our throat. |
| 1:04.4 | But first, with us on the line is Charles Sauer, the Libertarian economist and president |
| 1:09.0 | of the Market Institute. |
| 1:11.2 | He's also the author of the new book, Profit Motive. |
| 1:13.5 | What drives the things we do, MarketInstitute.org is the website. |
| 1:17.4 | You can tweet him at Charles Sauer, S-A-U-E-R. |
| 1:21.4 | And Charles, I see that a majority of Democrats in the Democratic Caucus have called for the |
| 1:27.0 | White House to support this trip's waiver. |
| 1:30.7 | This is essentially what it says is that the right now Pfizer, for example, just to pick |
| 1:37.8 | one company, for example, Pfizer controls the patent on their product that they developed. |
| 1:44.0 | And therefore, they control who can make it and what it gets sold for. |
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