Michael and Us: Akira, the Wrath of God
Jacobin Radio
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4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Luke and Will discuss AKIRA (1988), the groundbreaking anime classic. We hash over the film's vision of a future-dystopia, finding elements both unique to 1988 and applicable to all times. PLUS: the new Amazon union in Staten Island, and checking the pulse of right-wing politics on Canada.
Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, we know that the union work rules are what everything is about. |
| 0:03.6 | It's the same case with Starbucks too. |
| 0:05.6 | If you can't tell your employees when they work, |
| 0:08.2 | then you're really not able to have much of an ability to be able to |
| 0:11.6 | move products or move coffee. |
| 0:14.0 | And I think the people, the unions will be in charge of time that you need to work. |
| 0:20.7 | And that would be dreadful for a very dreadful free any, Jasmine. |
| 0:26.9 | And that's just a US picture, right? |
| 0:29.1 | Yeah, they got Europe to think about as well. |
| 0:31.0 | You know, looking, one of the problems with Starbucks does indeed have |
| 0:34.2 | unionized places in the ones that they franchise. |
| 0:36.7 | But if you can't control the work rules, no one wants to work certain shifts. |
| 0:41.3 | So you can just say, I'm not going to work that shift. |
| 0:44.2 | And Amazon would not be able to say, yes, you must work it. |
| 0:47.6 | So that's what it's take with union is time that you have to work. |
| 0:51.2 | So what did we just hear, Luke? |
| 0:53.4 | That was Jim Kramer on, he's the cash man. |
| 0:58.3 | That's right, he's the host of mad money. |
| 1:01.2 | He's known among other things for the so-called rant heard around the world, |
| 1:04.9 | which was at least the the moment that the phrase tea party was popularized. |
| 1:09.9 | He'll buy your gold, he'll buy your jewelry for big money. |
| 1:15.8 | Anyway, so obviously Kramer there was talking about the recent victory of the Amazon workers |
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