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Updates on Disney’s price hikes, Portugal’s unions’ general strike, Chinese buy US biggest pork processor, low-wage retail workers fighting in Seattle, General Petraeus goes corporate, and income/wealth inequality in US. Detailed discussions of (1) why technical progress fails to ease work burdens in capitalism, and (2) why/how US “recovery” is so uneven as well as fragile. Response to listeners on anarchism and on Chinese solar panels.
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