How Feel Good Stories Let A Broken System Off The Hook

We've all seen those "heartwarming" stories about kids with cancer selling lemonade to pay for their chemo, or janitors being gifted a car because they've walked ten miles to work every day for twenty years, or all the other sugar-coated dystopian failures of our capitalist system. In this episode, we're going to talk about that. Come learn about why this happens, and what we need to realize about it.

How Feel Good Stories Let A Broken System Off The Hook– Second Thought
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Citations and Further Reading:

Team Seas/Simon Clark/Self-Licensing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSG8BtZn9-8
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228651440_Licensing_Effect_in_Consumer_Choice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXDx6DjNLDU

More on Feel-Good Stories & Charity
https://repeller.com/problem-with-feel-good-news-stories/
https://fair.org/home/medias-grim-addiction-to-perseverance-porn/
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/tell-me-its-going-to-be-ok-tokumitsu
https://citationsneeded.medium.com/episode-23-the-medias-grim-addiction-to-perseverance-porn-7c73fb4edb75 https://aninjusticemag.com/the-rebranding-of-suffering-into-feel-good-stories-f7e45d7f249b
https://communitycentricfundraising.org/2020/08/10/nonprofit-industrial-complex-101-a-primer-on-how-it-upholds-inequity-and-flattens-resistance/
https://www.rose-judson.com/post/the-inspiration-industrial-complex-part-i-marilyn-monroe-never-said-that

Dystopia Fuel (Video Clips and More)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULd2uHXRiSs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spKWY55GbTA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OqFBkni_Ao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_r4J2segIE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVpfuGZeExM
https://www.adweek.com/performance-marketing/u-s-rep-jack-kingston-poor-kids-clean-floors/
https://twitter.com/helpmeskeletor/status/1462605260623548417?s=20&fbclid=IwAR2akbsOEW3Pnlt_eJ3GL2kIhd5sbyP73x81NUj4lwnOSt-iOZ8fhtwF8H4

Lunch Debt
https://educationdata.org/school-lunch-debt
https://archive.thinkprogress.org/free-lunch-healthy-kids-e4b62c95d468/
https://www.adweek.com/performance-marketing/u-s-rep-jack-kingston-poor-kids-clean-floors/

Heritage Foundation Ghouls
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/513365-congress-has-to-avoid-universal-free-school-meals-which-include-wealthy?rl=1

Undercover Boss
https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=M5HJDQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA88&ots=VbVBrbEQQk&sig=u24SbfRG2ZpbPl9ClUYShPajuFc#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://patch.com/iowa/ames/undercover-boss-what-really-happened-to-epic-employees_5
https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/undercover-boss-life-changer-modell-ceo-article-1.1276376
https://www.racked.com/2016/5/18/11692166/sports-authority-bankruptcy-dicks-sporting-goods-modells

Sometimes a Table Knife
https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/milestones/milestones-5yr.html
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