Capitalism, Lost Empathy and Rising Addictions
February 18, 2025
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Capitalism, Lost Empathy and Rising Addictions
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Capitalism, Lost Empathy and Rising Addictions
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<p>In this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses Trump's attempts at taking Panama as more evidence of rising colonialism and imperial ambitions, the recent organizing and strike of 10,000 Colorado grocery workers, and finally, corporations and investment funds abandoning DEI. In the second half of the show, Prof. Wolff interviews psychotherapist Tess Fraad-Wolff on capitalism's causal links to declining empathy and rising addictions.</p> <p> </p> <p>The d@w Team Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff is a DemocracyatWork.info Inc. production. We make it a point to provide the show free of ads and rely on viewer support to continue doing so.</p> <p>You can support our work by joining our Patreon community:</p> <p>https://www.patreon.com/democracyatwork Or you can go to our website: https://www.democracyatwork.info/donate</p> <p> </p> <p>Every donation counts and helps us provide a larger audience with the information they need to better understand the events around the world they can't get anywhere else.</p> <p>We want to thank our devoted community of supporters who help make this show and others we produce possible each week.1:01</p> <p>We kindly ask you to also support the work we do by encouraging others to subscribe to our YouTube channel and website: www.democracyatwork.info</p>
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