{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"036: Debt Abolition: A Battle Plan For The Future","description":"If aliens could beam to our shores with recording devices, a savage irony would immediately and immaculately light up their antennas: not only does our global society fail to provide The Golden Square to every person on Earth, humans are increasingly forced deeper and deeper into debt for those fundamental rights to Food, Shelter, Healthcare, and Education. The debt-staircase has become grossly absurd and toxically tragic\u2014a ruinous prank laid upon us at an ever-accelerating rate since the dawn of neoliberalism. From cradle to grave, we\u2019re trapped on a noxious treadmill of Debt Achievement Goals: School Lunch Debt, College Debt, Credit Card Debt, Auto Loan Debt, Housing Debt, Medical Debt, and more. And even after death, debt collectors hound our family members and moralize about unpaid balances. As David Graeber once said, \u201cAs it turns out, we don\u2019t \u2018all\u2019 have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.\u201d And who is that \u201csome of us,\u201d exactly? Well, certainly not the 1%; rather only the rest of us\u2014the great unwashed 99%\u2014as we resign to rumination and self-blame for not being entrepreneurial enough. As capitalism forces us to pay for our own existence (while it indiscriminately tears through the Earth\u2019s remaining ecologies), we must seriously question the moral plea to \u201cpay all debts.\u201d And as it turns out, there is another path that leads us away from Terminal Dystopia Syndrome (TDS). Forged from relationships built during the prefigurative struggles of Occupy Wall Street \u2014The Debt Collective has published an urgent and instructive new manifesto tackling the emergency of now: Can\u2019t Pay, Won\u2019t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition. In this episode, Matt & Jesse consider the emancipatory ideas of this important book, the necessary demand to abolish debt, and how we might reclaim the  \u201cintellectual luxuries\u201d we all deserve. The Debt Collective offer a persuasive argument for how and why Debtors Unions have dynamic potential to become the most liberatory union movement in history, providing the leverage needed to redress hierarchies of racial capitalism and colonial plunder by inaugurating a new era of investment in \u201cReparative Public Goods.\u201d Amidst the powerful and dark-tidal pull of the COVID-19 pandemic, Can\u2019t Pay, Won\u2019t Pay provides a capstone to a trilogy on debt: David Graeber\u2019s Debt: The First 5,000 Years (an anthropological reckoning); Sam Esmail\u2019s Mr. Robot (a popular awakening), and finally, this book by the Debt Collective\u2014a battle plan plan for how we unfuck the world that capitalism has smothered and smeared into shit. A 21st Century Debt Jubilee must be wrought by all of us, collectively.   Comprehensive Show Notes Can Be Found at thefutureisamixtape.com Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Instagram ","author_name":"The Future Is A Mixtape","author_url":"https:\/\/www.thefutureisamixtape.com\/","html":"