{"id":6761,"date":"2022-02-03T11:07:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T19:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=6761"},"modified":"2022-02-03T11:08:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T19:08:35","slug":"economic-update-chris-hedges-us-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=6761","title":{"rendered":"Economic Update: Chris Hedges &#038; US Prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201c<strong>Trillions of dollars [In the United States] were handed out to the mass of people. Checks were sent, remember? Many of you got them. Checks were sent out to businesses, to individuals on a massive scale. That&#8217;s not capitalism, friends. That&#8217;s the government saving us. And do you know what it&#8217;s saving us from? What <em>would <\/em>have happened in a pandemic if we had allowed regular capitalism to function! But we didn&#8217;t. So please understand \u2013 if things didn&#8217;t go even worse during the pandemic than they did, it&#8217;s because we kissed capitalism goodbye and started distributing money to masses of people so they could keep going. Turns out that works. It works pretty well, even in a pandemic. Maybe we ought to think about it under other circumstances&#8230;\u201d (08:25) <\/strong>   <strong>Richard D. Wolff<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Economic Update: Chris Hedges &amp; US Prisons\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H9kwl3r2BbE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTrillions of dollars [In the United States] were handed out to the mass of people. Checks were sent, remember? Many of you got them. Checks were sent out to businesses, to individuals on a massive scale. That&#8217;s not capitalism, friends. That&#8217;s the government saving us. And do you know what it&#8217;s saving us from? What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}