Researchers show us what a scarcity mindset is and how it affects our behavior and decision-making in this poignant segment.
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Media recommendations for learning about Leftism
Yanis Varoufakis: Is Capitalism Devouring Democracy? (2018)
Greek economist and politician Yanis Varoufakis explains how socialism is rooted in democracy and its history in everyday language to the Cambridge Forum in Massachusetts.
Rotten (2018, 2019) [Netflix]
Rotten details contemporary global capitalism by telling the backward and inhumane stories of the food industry through an international lens. This is a very useful documentary series to learn real world examples of how the profit motive is inherently, well, rotten.
If you don’t have Netflix, the full series can be streamed for free on bootleg sites like 123movies. Here is an episode I enjoyed on water.
What Constitutes a Socialist Society? – Xexizy (2017)
A great (but higher level) explanation of commodity form and state capitalism.
The 5 Filters of The Mass Media Machine – Al Jazeera English (2017)
A fun and easy animated breakdown inspired by Noam Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent.
The Eugenics Crusade (2018)
This is a very important documentary that shows the genesis of the idea that people are poor or a burden on society because of their individual problems. It’s all a self-serving sham built on pseudoscience and rich people’s pride.