Weekends: Capitalism Alone w/ Branko Milanovic
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🗓️ 23 August 2021
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Economist Branko Milanovic joins Weekends to discuss the public's declining faith in capitalism, whether viable alternatives exist, how the system generates inequality, and whether social democracy can still play a role in ameliorating it. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from August 20, 2021.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everyone? Welcome to Weekends, Anacasparian and Bando Villa. You guys demanded |
| 0:22.5 | we listened. And so for those of you who are watching live, the show will be available |
| 0:28.3 | to everyone including non-members as we do it live. However, after the fact, the full show |
| 0:34.4 | will only be available to our members. So we wanted to make sure that for those of you who |
| 0:38.8 | like to watch live, who like to interact with us, but maybe don't have the means for membership, |
| 0:43.6 | have the opportunity to do what they love. And so we're really happy to do that for you guys |
| 0:48.6 | at the same time, you know, people need to eat. Kale's got to eat. Kale's got to eat. This is |
| 0:55.4 | all for Kale's salary. You and I have other jobs. This is Kale's only job, you know. Exactly. Although |
| 1:01.5 | he has been cheating on us a little bit with Ben Burgess, the show, which no judgment, I love Ben |
| 1:05.6 | Burgess. I'll take it. I know about that. We can be in this polyamorous relationship with |
| 1:10.8 | them. I'm going to fire him. No, I'm going to fire him. I can't, no, we can't do this. I'm going to |
| 1:14.4 | tell Blasker to fire him immediately. All right. So look, we've got such a great show ahead for you |
| 1:20.4 | guys. I'm really looking forward to our interview today with Branko. I don't want to mispronounce |
| 1:27.5 | his name. Milanovic. Milanovic. Yes. Branko, Milanovic. He's incredible. And I have so many |
| 1:34.3 | questions to ask him about, of course, inequality, you know, he used to be a researcher for the |
| 1:39.6 | international bank. And so he's, I'm sure the kind of expert that you'd want to hear from in |
| 1:47.6 | regard to what we're experiencing with inequality, especially in the COVID era. We're going to, |
| 1:52.8 | of course, talk about Afghanistan. And of course, Nando, we can't do today's show without weighing |
| 1:59.0 | in on your topic. Want to give them a little preview? There's some labor strike activity over at |
| 2:05.6 | the snack factory, our favorite snacks. They're on strike. So, you know, we'll break it all down |
| 2:12.0 | in my segment. Absolutely. So before we get to all of that, a huge part of the show, of course, |
| 2:18.2 | is going to be dedicated to Afghanistan and some foreign policy. But Nando, you and I love to |
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