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Pirates, Finance, and the Psychopathy of Capitalism
Hey, it's Earnest Mann here! In this episode, we're stripping away the romanticized veneer of pirates and drawing a hard line between their ruthless nature and the current state of capitalism. Just as pirates were cutthroat and self-serving, so too are the financial systems that dominate our world today. The real treasure they're after? Your wallet.
The Cannibalism of Capitalism: A Societal Downfall
I argue that the same psychopathic tendencies that fueled piracy are alive and well in our economic systems. We've been conditioned over generations to accept and even participate in what amounts to financial cannibalism. This isn't just a metaphor—it's a reality we face in everyday transactions, where exploitation and greed rule the day.
The Hypocrisy of the Capitalist System
I call out the hypocrisy of criticizing capitalism while simultaneously benefiting from it, highlighting the absurdity of our conditioned acceptance of harmful practices. We are complicit in a society that rewards ruthlessness while punishing vulnerability. It's time we fess up to the fact that we're all playing a role in this twisted system.
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Transcripts
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Pirates have been romanticized in books
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and movies for quite some time but the
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fact is Pirates as a rule were ruthless
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backstabbing psychopath that would do
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anything for money and only work
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together for their own self-interest
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they were not in any way decent human
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beings so what happened to them
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if you work for a living why do you kill
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yourself
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working so tell me just be totally
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honest did you like that pirate
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analogy I thought it was well I think
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it's appropriate and
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um that's what we're going to be talking
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about is piracy
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on the high seas of
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Finance before I get started uh I just
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want to introduce myself I am Professor
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Ernest
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man professor of
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tautology Frostbite
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Falls one thing that many people never
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consider is the dilar effects of what
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amounts to years and years of perhaps
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you know Decades of
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um well
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Psychopathic thinking in this case it's
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in the world of day-to-day
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Finance you see what I have noticed and
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what many other um people in these um
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Studies have noticed sociological
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studies is that societies are easy
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relatively easy to condition uh and if
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you are someone with a much bigger
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picture in
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mind it could take two or three
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generations to do that but it can be
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done and when I say conditioning what
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I'm talking about here is people that
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become accustomed to the most egregious
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the most
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ridiculous or perhaps the most harmful
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things that previous generations
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simply could not have even wrapped their
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head around because they would have been
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so ridiculous and
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Preposterous to follow through
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on for instance just to give a very
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simple example of this the German people
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during World War II were in a very
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relatively short period of time actually
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conditioned to actually want to
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homicidally
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destroy non-germans and that it became
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the
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norm I am not saying each and every
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individual was like this of course not
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I'm saying all that matters in big
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movements is the majority of support
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from the
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majority it doesn't matter how you
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obtain that whether it's through
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joyful adherence to a given philosophy
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ideology or party line or by
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force the result is the same it gets
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accepted within the society the laws get
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changed and basically what would have
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been considered absolute Madness only
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maybe even one generation
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ago becomes the accepted Norm
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this is the case of what I call the uh
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the theft of uh well it's the theft not
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only of the American people but it is
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also having the people in on this game
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so that they themselves cannot
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disentangle themselves from it because
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they are a part of it so you can't for
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instance as an example
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you inherently can't go around uh you
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know criticizing
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capitalism even if you're right and even
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if you're correct and then you turn
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right around and you're engaging in it
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that's called being a hypocrite and that
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by any standard is not a good thing but
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that is what I want to talk about to
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point out because it very much affects
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your life and what you do with it and
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what you can do with it
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I want to talk
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about fessing up to the idea that what
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this basically amounts to on a very
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broad
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level is
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cannibalism let me give you a realworld
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example of the
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psychopathy what I've had to deal with
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and many other
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people that is a symptom of the sickness
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of what I'm talking
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about now this may seem like a simple
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thing but it I really feel that it's a
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very good barometer on what's going on
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in our society and as it continues to
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degenerate before I go into it also I
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wanted to mention this is the very same
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thing that if you ask people if you ask
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people as
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individuals they get the you know that
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really crazy batshit crazy look on their
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face as though why am I being a victim
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of this and they may be completely
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legitimate and it's just they're dealing
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with something absolutely
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crazy and then they're the ones that one
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moment later will turn right the [ __ ]
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back around and do the very same things
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themselves that's the craziness of
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it so I recently put some things for
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sale on
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Facebook and I've had quite a few
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inquiries about these
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things now before
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you uh approach this as far as selling
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some of your unwanted or unneeded items
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there there should be as it used to be
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it should be a
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supposition that means you know a
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generally agreed upon rule that people
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are selling [ __ ] on you know Craigslist
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or Facebook or what have you um not
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because we're trying trying to become
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[ __ ] millionaires we're just ordinary
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human beings that for whatever reason
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were getting rid of
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items now ask yourself this have you
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went into a department store recently
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and seen something that you wanted
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whatever it is it doesn't matter you
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look at the price and say it's you know
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20 bucks1
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1995 and you think that's more than I
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want to pay really so you go to the ma
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manager whoever's in charge and you
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demand that they lower the price you
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don't look at them and you know and you
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look at I mean you you look at you say
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look this says:8:00
so if you ask someone this that you
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think I'm crazy say of course not no
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nobody does that why is
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that because all these years we as a
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society have been conditioned that it's
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fupa you just don't do it in other words
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you don't question what's put forth
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through the corporation they put their
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stamp on it you humble down you either
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pay the [ __ ] price or you don't it's
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really simple so people have been
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conditioned and this is what I'm talking
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about people condition to this
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however as far as you know how they
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treat their fellow human beings if I'm
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the one that's taken I've taken the hit
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on the greed Factor as I call it and say
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something's 20 bucks at a store okay I
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take the financial hit because it's
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probably worth five but regardless I
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agree and I buy it for 20 bucks that's
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my business that's what I do okay maybe
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3 months 6 months 3 weeks whatever it is
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for whatever reason I decide to sell it
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okay me personally I feel that it's fair
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since I've already taken a huge
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financial hit I generally if it's
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something that's like new it's not a
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wear item you know I ask for half I
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think that's more than
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reasonable but not to the consumers they
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want to endlessly chip away and
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scrutinize yeah I know it says 25 will
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you take
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10 whereas internally I feel like giving
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them a big [ __ ] finger and saying no
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eat [ __ ] and die [ __ ]
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die that's what I feel like of course I
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don't say that but look let's be
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honest that's what we feel
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like the point is why is it people and
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that includes you why is it people we
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are so quick to pounce on take advantage
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of to cannibalize
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other human beings who generally
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speaking just need a a few bucks and
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it's not enough to already the fact that
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they've already paid the price the rape
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fees they paid the full price of this
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but you want it even less than a fair
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price that they're asking
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for I'm not saying again everyone does
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this but I am saying the majority will
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and that is what I'm saying is a symptom
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of the psychopathy of
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capitalism and that all the way down the
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line down the pecking order if you
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will everybody has to lose except of
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course the companies the corporations
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they never lose they never lose if
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they're selling an item for $20 and then
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it doesn't sell well enough then they'll
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you know special discount it maybe
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they'll do 15 or maybe they'll do 10 but
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regardless if they do that
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they at bare
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minimum break even that's bare minimum
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but regardless if they you know had an
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item for sale for 20 bucks and they sold
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it for 10 they're still making a killing
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why because they only paid you know
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maybe $3 to5 for the item and you can
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you can put that across to any item
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there at all whatso [ __ ] ever it
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doesn't matter but my bigger Point here
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is that I'm trying to say is that it's
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just like the lottery sure they put out
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there the winners and the winners are
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the merchants because they get to steal
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everything and they have license to
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steal that's what they do the same thing
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with the wall streeters except it's on a
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much bigger scale but it's the same
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thing they're the Pirates they're the
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thieves they're the ones that decide
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there there's no rules there's no real
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rules there's no real rules no one gets
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fogged no one gets beating no one gets
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shot for being a crook on Wall Street no
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one never happens never so there's no
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incentive uh to not be a crook and
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that's what all of them do is well
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they're Crooks but my point is to
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illustrate I'm saying if you're
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wondering and this is just one aspect of
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a terminally [ __ ] up
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Society all the way down the line
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everything it touches everywhere
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everywhere everything and everywhere
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it's some point the very people do and
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again I'm not saying everyone every
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[ __ ] one doesn't matter you only need
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the majority you only need the majority
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of people to be for instance into uh
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naism or whatnot to have a fascist state
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which is currently where America is
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heading it is the Natural Evolution of
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capitalism the next stage is fascism
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which is definitely what we're getting
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in to now I'm not going to go into that
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maybe in another episode if you want me
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to but ask yourself this why is it if
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you're going around to you know flea
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markets or Craigslist or whatever why do
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you have the
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compulsion assuming that the other
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person is really in need of just a few
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bucks why do you have to be why do you
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have to pile on with all the other
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criminals well I I know you're asking
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$20 but would you let me have it for
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$3 you're [ __ ] sickening and you're
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repulsive as a human being if you do
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that if you do that you are because
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you're just as [ __ ] complient in the
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entire [ __ ] up Arrangement as
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everybody else so don't don't pit a
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[ __ ] and moan and come to me or radio
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talk show host or any [ __ ] body else
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for that matter anyone and then yes that
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includes your shrink who all also
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ripping you off by the way just sit
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there I don't understand I just I just
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can't sell the houses anymore I can't
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they won't they won't just bend over and
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and and hand me some some some Ooze and
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ointment and just let me you know [ __ ]
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them real good they won't do that I'm
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not understanding it's not
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fair [ __ ] you
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this is the spiral
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gyro of a society spiraling down into
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the very [ __ ] that it
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created and if you are the one
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participating in
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this in this madness and this financial
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cannibalism then you my friend are a
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[ __ ] pirate
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