Episode 55: The American Critique of Capitalism in Melville's "Bartleby"

In this scattershot episode, we discuss the incentives and pressures that exist in modern, post-revolutionary capitalist society. We trash Milton Friedman a little bit and bolster some new stuff by David Graeber and some older stuff by Thoreau & Melville -- plus, hear from Wendell Berry & Leo Marx. We can reason about macroeconomics, but it's more difficult when (or: "if") we take into account the moods and emotions and yes, preferences, of the individual children of god that macroeconomists refer to as "labor." Hello my fellow Leftists. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GodwardOdysee: https://odysee.com/@Godward:5?r=FFgMAmWyyzJ2b8HrstejXYp7UaTdV9ep