How Capitalism Makes You Lonely

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Capitalism is much more than a system of economics. Today we'll talk about how it really works, and how Capitalism seeps into the very bonds that hold humanity together.

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Chapters: 0:00 Cold Open 0:22 Intro 2:49 Bokksu Sponsor Spot 4:28 Part 1: What is Capitalism Anyway? 8:23 Part 2: Enclosing Our Social Life 13:06 Part 3: Transactions and Human Connection 14:53 Part 4: Neoliberalism 18:34 Part 5: Self-Important Navel-Gazing 21:22 Part 6: The Way Out

Sources: A Brief History of Neoliberalism, David Harvey, 2005 Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Robert D Putnam, 2000 Capitalist Realism, Mark Fisher, 2009 Debt: The First 5000 Years, David Graeber, 2011 Loneliness as a specific risk factor for depressive symptoms: cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses, John T Cacioppo, Mary Elizabeth Hughes, Linda J Waite, Louise C Hawkley, Ronald A Thisted (2006) Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review Julianne Holt-Lunstad ,Timothy B. Smith, J. Bradley Layton (2010) The Caves of Forgotten Time, Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 2015 https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/11/the-caves-of-forgotten-time/414894/ What Extreme Isolation Does to Your Mind, Michael Mechanic, Mother Jones, 2012

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