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
   • #TeamSeas - a force for good?  
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
   • This Robot Eats Trash #TeamSeas  

More on Feel-Good Stories & Charity
https://repeller.com/problem-with-fee...
https://fair.org/home/medias-grim-add...
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/tell-me...
  / episode-23-the-medias-grim-addiction-to-pe...   https://aninjusticemag.com/the-rebran...
https://communitycentricfundraising.o...
https://www.rose-judson.com/post/the-...

Dystopia Fuel (Video Clips and More)
   • Simple act of kindness: student pays ...  
   • 9-year-old pays off lunch debt for hi...  
   • An 8-year-old boy paid off the lunch ...  
   • Second-Grader Uses Lemonade Stand To ...  
   • The CEO discovers his employee is hom...  
https://www.adweek.com/performance-ma...
https://twitter.com/helpmeskeletor/st...

Lunch Debt
https://educationdata.org/school-lunc...
https://archive.thinkprogress.org/fre...
https://www.adweek.com/performance-ma...

Heritage Foundation Ghouls
https://thehill.com/opinion/education...

Undercover Boss
https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&...
https://patch.com/iowa/ames/undercove...
https://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...
https://www.racked.com/2016/5/18/1169...

Sometimes a Table Knife
https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/m...


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