Values in Action: Late Capitalism A Survival Guide

Thanks to our Patreon members for helping to make this episode possible and we're now available on all the major podcasting platforms. You can find more information at the links below. Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to an addendum to the values lecture on late capitalism a survival guide. And so I talked about, you know, finding your own other values.

And then the day after I had recorded that lecture, just a beautiful and sort of almost perfect example of this rose up because the [clears throat] workers at the Louvre are on strike. So of course, the Louv, one of the great museums in the world, and there's three different unions. They've all agreed to go out on strike together and they represent not everybody at the museum but boy pretty much all you we're talking cleaning, maintenance, curator, security across the board and they're going on strike. And so why are they going on strike?

And the first thing that people would think would be, oh well, they're going on strike for higher wages and better working conditions. It turns out that like one of the unions has raised this as one small issue because the wages are not keeping up with inflation. This is not why this is not what's driving the strike. The biggest issues driving the strike are as follows.

And none of these notice are by value. They aren't in the sense of dollars. This is not what they're not on strike for cash. This is basically what it amounts to.

they have a different set of values and this is what's throwing off both the government and the board of directors of the museum because they don't know how to respond to this. So there's this like almost total disconnect because you have the government and the board of directors who basically are spokesman for the late capitalist worldview when they say look we have an asset how much money can we take from the asset what's the minimum amount we can invest in the asset this is our program this is what we're looking at and the workers of the move are like no no this is this is the wrong way they're lit they're literally saying this isn't me like putting words in their mouth they're like this is not a for-profit company. We are not here to ...