C4SS Media presents Kevin Carson‘s “Working Three Jobs to Make Ends Meet? This Might be Why” read by James Tuttle and edited by Nick Ford.

The state, the giant corporation, and large institutions of all other kinds are part of an interlocking culture designed to extract as much money from us as possible while delivering as little as possible in return. That’s why political agendas centered on guaranteeing our ability to pay for services, without touching the institutional culture that makes them so expensive, are a dead end.