Too many words are still un-solved.

Every clock here is on a different time.

Oh, well, we'll catch up some other time. The Lord is with the Lord is with the

God is with the power.

Take it back. This is hell.

hell.

Hell.

Manuf manufacturing descent since 1996, this is hell. It's hard not to think in this day and age of climate change and

a raging pandemic with its multitudinous variants that resistance to our daily catastrophes caused by neoliberalism is futile.

As today's guest rights, we get into debt in order to gain qualifications only to

discover that employment is increasingly sparse, casualized, and precarious. We

wash out our plastic jam pots for recycling as fossil fuel companies destroy our seas and corporations,

raid rain force at unprecedented rates, and as a deadly virus brings the world to a standstill, we find that global efforts at utility maximization

have not rewarded the majority of the world's population with greater social and financial security.

In fact, many of us maximize utility to ends that are

useless to the greater well-being of society often just to secure some semblance of

individual survival. As the late great David Graber pointed out here on this as hell, that work that is useless

to the greater well-being of society includes what David called bullshit jobs which

our guest today argues to all intents and purposes are socially and financially secure,

yet the worker still feels and emptiness in what they do.

Neoliberalism has transformed all of us into commodities

where we brand and sell ourselves to the highest bidder,

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