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*PREVIEW* No Child Left Unemployed feat. Rob Larson

TRASHFUTURE

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.7935 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

This week we're talking tech monopolies and the ways in which Gates and Bezos used public research to become this century's dumber Carnegie and Vanderbilt. Listen to Riley, Milo, and Alice discuss it with Rob Larson (@IronicProfessor), and rejoice in the knowledge that everything you've ever done with a PC was planned out by dudes in rocking chairs for some reason. Check out Rob's Book Capitalism vs. Freedom: the Toll Road to Serfdom, out from Zer0 Books. Get it here: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/capitalism-freedom The full episode is available on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/36827810 If you want one of our *fine* new shirts, designed by Matt Lubchansky, then e-mail trashfuturepodcast [at] gmail [dot] com. £15 for patrons, £20 for non-patrons, plus shipping. *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/

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0:00.0

I have one final thing here before we all sign off, which is that this is less of a structural look at sort of how individual billionaires have

0:22.5

used their money to either change or shape policy in a way to suit them.

0:27.8

We did the materialist stuff.

0:29.1

Now we're doing the fun individual stuff.

0:31.8

This deck segment is the dessert.

0:34.8

One of the founders of AOL, a guy called Steve Case, has a foundation with his wife, Gene,

0:41.4

Gene being a former Bush administration apparatchik.

0:43.8

Of course.

0:44.7

And they pioneered something in Kwasulunatal in South Africa that was going to solve the

0:50.4

issue of getting clean water and the work that is involved in getting

0:54.9

clean water uh two different villages uh and also was going to occupy the children something

1:00.5

called play pumps no no no i see where this is going already and i sounds like a sex toy i i am filled

1:07.6

with murderous rage instantly.

1:16.6

Sorry, please continue, but I have an inkling here, and I don't like it in the slightest.

1:21.1

So Alice's health bar is just now flashed red.

1:22.6

She is now enraged.

1:24.7

So she gets two attacks. So she gets two attacks a turn.

1:27.7

The concept is very simple.

1:29.8

It is simply a merry-go-round connected to a borehole into the ground.

1:34.7

As children play spinning the merry-go-round, the spinning motion pumps the underground water into a raised tank.

1:41.1

Cool.

1:42.6

Perhaps we could install some kind of hamster wheel?

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