{"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<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H9kwl3r2BbE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tQeJ-1L3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6769,"url":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=6769","url_meta":{"origin":6761,"position":0},"title":"This Generation is Ready for a New System: &#8216;Global Capitalism&#8217; (3 min, 32 secs)","author":"Shawn Hamilton","date":"February 13, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lrREpKw3auI","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/lrREpKw3auI\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6813,"url":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=6813","url_meta":{"origin":6761,"position":1},"title":"Fascism&#8217;s Ties to Capitalism: Dave Emory interviews Dr. Michael Parenti  (1993)","author":"Shawn Hamilton","date":"May 11, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KQYTY2oZhwg","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/KQYTY2oZhwg\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6823,"url":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=6823","url_meta":{"origin":6761,"position":2},"title":"Surveillance Capitalism","author":"admin","date":"June 23, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The bit about the origins and real purpose of Pokemon Go is particularly interesting. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hIXhnWUmMvw","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/hIXhnWUmMvw\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7239,"url":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=7239","url_meta":{"origin":6761,"position":3},"title":"WTF is Project 2025?","author":"Shawn Hamilton","date":"October 9, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"It is the overt fascist takeover many of us have been expecting ... \"Project 2025 is a policy blueprint created by far-right\u200b'think tank' Heritage Foundation. 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