Second Thought | How Feel Good Stories Let A Broken System Off The Hook @SecondThought | Uploaded December 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
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
youtube.com/watch?v=ZSG8BtZn9-8
researchgate.net/publication/228651440_Licensing_Effect_in_Consumer_Choice
youtube.com/watch?v=pXDx6DjNLDU

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

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

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

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

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

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


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