Episode

3/18 The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions w/ Jason Hickel

March 18, 2019

Jason Hickel (@jasonhickel), author of The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions, joins us.

On today’s show: Spotify sues Apple for monopolistic practices. Joe Biden’s comments on New Left criticism: “Most progressive of anyone who would run.”

Jason Hickel, author of The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions, joins us. Inequality between the global north and the global south has deepened since the 1960s. How colonizers enclosed common lands in India to force people to work for them. The process of colonization, resource extraction, and market opening that continues to enable the exploitation of the global south. How the US has rolled back the UN’s reforms and propped up dictators. How the debt crisis of the ’80s enabled a soft re-colonization. How Bill Gates and Steven Pinker are misrepresenting global poverty figures to make it look like everything’s fine. Some policy prescriptions and how to sell them.

On the fun half: Mick Mulvaney says it’s unfair to say Trump inspires white nationalism. Trump in 2016 says, “We’ll be looking at a lot of different things” to remove Muslims. Egg boy, legend, eggs Fraser Anning, the Steve King of Australia. Egg boy gets put in headlock by the fash. Fraser Anning called out at airport. Bolsonaro egged by a woman. Egg boy remix. A caller’s experience with pharma price gouging. Betsy McCaughey urges Trump to pay for border wall by ending “this asylum scam” of people fleeing to the US. Sam is burning up the polls in the libertarian primary. Plus, your calls!

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