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Uncounted in the Unemployment Rate - but They Want to Work, Comedian David Cross: Why America Sucks at Everything, Adam Curtis Cancels the Future, not all government regulation is bad, and will Americans ever win their freedom from capitalism?

Uncounted in the Unemployment Rate, but They Want to Work - source

Follow the breadcrumbs. Sure jobs hiring with limited applicants are part time jobs but remote or higher paying jobs are getting 200+ applicants. Labor participation number is how to get an accurate portrayal of unemployment. 

Comedian David Cross: Why America Sucks at Everything - source

The most accurate summary of American circumstances.

Adam Curtis Cancels the Future - source

"Curtis’s new BBC series, Can’t Get You Out of My Head, depicts the repetitive bleakness of individualism, but how can we collectively envision an alternative? Curtis suggests that the future has been cancelled because political leaders no longer have ideas for what’s next. Instead, he argues, they run campaigns of perception management – a term originated by the US military to describe the manipulation and distribution of selected information into foreign countries. These control systems move us from states of hysteria and fear to apathy, indignance and then back again. A recent event like r/wallstreetbets – in which online Reddit traders challenged Wall Street elites at their rigged financial system – is an example of a shock that was momentarily all-consuming then almost forgotten in our minds."

Proof not all government regulation is bad - source

"FDA warns not to drink company’s bottled water after several people report liver damage"

Will Americans ever win their freedom from capitalism? - oped source

"They’re about three things, which add up to one big thing, which you’re really not going to like. Americans are trying to win their freedom from capitalism, which is a system that has failed them completely, producing a failed state on the level of the Soviet Union. But, and this is the sad and funny part, they are trying to win their freedom from the poverty and depredation of capitalism by becoming little capitalists. How can that ever really work out? And yet Americans no know other way. This is all they have ever been taught, all they know, understand, have been conditioned to want."

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