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How Feel Good Stories Let A Broken System Off The Hook

We've all seen those "heartwarming" stories about kids with cancer selling lemonade to pay for their chemo, or janitors being gifted a car because they've walked ten miles to work every day for twenty years, or all the other sugar-coated dystopian failures of our capitalist system. In this episode, we're going to talk about that. Come learn about why this happens, and what we need to realize about it. - Second Thought

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