This episode was born out of seemingly unrelated current events: the impending economic crisis and the tragic death of Tyre Nichols. I’ve found that the oppression of the working class through layoffs and recessions and the oppression of racial minorities through police brutality have way more in common than you think in the subtle mechanism by they hijack our minds, change our political attitudes, and influence behavior. The episode is also a bit of a botch, since I recorded a much better take of it but my microphone was somehow not feeding audio into the software and I had to re-do the whole thing.


Notes
LA Times article on layoffs “The real aim of big tech's layoffs: bringing workers to heel”: https://
apple.news/
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The cruelty is the point
How our minds internalize subtle cues
Police give impossible, confusing
commands to justify excessive force
Tech companies are using layoffs to keep workers in line and stop them from getting what they have earned through collective action and bargaining
How small groups get more power than they merit through random actions of oppression
Talk of recession keeps workers in fear and erodes their gains
How layoffs are executed without
rhyme or reason makes workers give up more than they need
How layoffs are executed without rhyme or reason makes workers give up more than they need to
Making things look like a "force of
nature" or just what happens on its own because of an external force
How politicians and bosses make us blame ourselves for bad things
Tech workers are starting to realize the benefits of unions
Giving into petty tyrants and
oppressive ideas will not keep you safe or leave you better off in the end.
You must learn to think differently!
Media programming people to only
consider certain solutions
Generational divide in views of alternatives to policing
What actually works to keep
communities safe
Success with reduced police intervention-
Workers better off now and with more power than they've had in years
Republicans' debt ceiling threats and their non-specificity are deliberate
Creative thinking driven by crisis: George Floyd and COVID economic crisis
Flow states and political change
Tyre Nichols was a great skater
What skateboarding taught me
about social change

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