How does capitalism affect our personal lives? How does the economy affect life at home, relationships at work, romance and dating? Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad is a bi-weekly podcast that explores what is happening in the economic realm and its impact on our individual and social psychology. Learn how to support the podcast. Visit us at: https://www.democracyatwork.info/capitalismhitshome More about Capitalism Hits Home https://www.democracyatwork.info/capitalismhitshome
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The Spirit Level of the United States
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In 2009 Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett wrote their best-selling book, "The Spirit Level" which showed how economic inequality spawned extensive social suffering. Recently those authors revisited the United States 15 years later, and every aspect of the social problems referenced in their work has increased with the increase of inequality. They …
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Whither Family-Withered Families
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Family was a mainstay of child development and emotional sustenance for both adults and children. US families are now falling apart. Today's episode asks the question: "What can be done to replace their sustaining power?" Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free and acc…
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Marriage Is No Longer A Rite of Passage in American Adulthood
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In Today's times, most marriages end in legal or extra-legal separation or divorce. Why is this happening? What are its social political and personal causes and effects? Today's show explores this phenomenon Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free and accessible to all…
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A Revolution in the Family Is Already Happening
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There is a worldwide revolution that is already happening. It’s in the family, the primary site of creating and sustaining human life. Just as the nuclear family replaced the feudal family, new family forms are replacing the nuclear family as marriage breaks apart and children are born. Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show f…
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Donald Trump has morphed from a transgressive man into a "Totem", a symbol and embodiment of the rage of Americans at the erosion of white male privilege, and the economic and social devaluation of the their lives. He embodies the retribution for the ravages of capitalism. Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Yo…
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Voluntary Childlessness Is A Worldwide Trend. Why?
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[S07 E12] Women with access to birth control are increasingly opting out of bearing children worldwide. Women are now economically forced into labor outside of the home. Thanks to persistent male chauvinism women are then expected to perform a "second shift" of housework and childcare. Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show fr…
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Women’s Traditional Labor, Skills and Strengths Are Learned Behaviors
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[S07 E11] What are the Skills and Strengths Learned In Performing Women’s Traditional Labor of Caring and Creating Order and Cleanliness? Why Are These Knowledges Unknown, No Less Uncelebrated? Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Your contributions help keep this content free and accessible to all. If you would…
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The Family - Does It Work? Did It Ever?
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[S07 E10] The Family Does It Work? Did It Ever? The family is a sacred cow, It is presented as instinctual, and eternal. It isn't. Family is breaking down. It's time to study it, question it, and create new alternatives and study the successful alternatives whose stories have been repressed. If we do, we can find ways to empower and free each other…
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"The UN World Happiness Report": Where Does America Stand?
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[S07 E09] "The UN World Happiness Report": Where Does America Stand and How Do We Raise Our Satisfaction With Our Lives? The United States has lost its position in the top 10 happiest nations? We have lost on every marker of life satisfaction. How do we regain our joy and hope? Learn more about CHH: We make it a point to provide the show free of ad…
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How Do We Change For A More Hopeful Egalitarian America?
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[S07 E08] How Do We Change For A More Hopeful Egalitarian America? We need to add to the powerful emerging union movement and unite it with all of our progressive movements whether Climate Justice, Black Lives Matter, the Feminist Movement, or the Sexual Rights Movement. We need one big multifaceted union and a political party that expresses that u…
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World Transformations Have Hit Our Homes Hard
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[S07 E07] World Transformations Have Hit Our Homes Hard The time for colonialism and settler colonialism is over! Whether it's in South Africa, America, Europe or Israel. The world is transforming. With the rise of China and the other BRICS nations, the United States have less power. The remaining US wealth is racing towards the billionaire class l…
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Positive Changes: Connections & Community Development
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[S07 E06] Positive Changes: Connections & Community Development Despite the sometimes depressing and unnerving problematic state of affairs we are seeing a growing number of people finding new connections and support systems amongst themselves, binding together and forming supporting systems to help them through these challenging times. Capitalism …
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Definitions & Intersections of White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, Hetero-Patriarchy & Capitalism
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[S07 E05] Definitions & Intersections of White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, Hetero-Patriarchy & Capitalism What exactly do these terms mean- White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, Hetero-Patriarchy and Capitalism? These are social divisions that function together. They separate us. They prevent us from uniting for a just socialist society that wo…
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Addiction, Suicide and Psych Drugs: Life Is Painful In Today's USA: Part 2 of 2
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America's changing global posiAmerica's Big Picture and Its Impact on Individual lives and escaping sadness in ways that are tragic and also ways that are hopeful and strong. Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad (CHH) is a @democracyatwrk production. The show addresses the intersection of capitalism, class, and personal lives, and explores w…
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Addiction, Suicide and Psych Drugs: Life Is Painful In Today's USA: Part 1 of 2
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Addiction, Suicide, and Psych Drugs are all heavily marketed. Opioid medications like Oxycontin induce addiction, guns facilitate suicide, and pills numb justified anxiety and depression. Why are they now epidemics? Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad (CHH) is a @democracyatwrk production. The show addresses the intersection of capitalism, …
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Is the Nuclear Family An Eternal Ubiquitous Way of Organizing Personal Life?
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Is the Nuclear Family An Eternal Ubiquitous Way of Organizing Personal Life? The nuclear family form we recognize as the "traditional family" began with the rise of capitalism in the late 1700s. Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad (CHH) is a @democracyatwrk production. The show addresses the intersection of capitalism, class, and personal l…
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What Are Some Life Supports for America's Failing Isolated Nuclear Families?
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We can support our failing families. We can learn from attempts abroad and from our own history. Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad (CHH) is a @democracyatwrk production. The show addresses the intersection of capitalism, class, and personal lives, and explores what is happening in the economic realm and its impact on our individual and so…
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US Empire Falls. Families Fail? Why?
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All Empires rise and fall. America's Empire is no exception. We need to admit it, cut the military budget and make a good life for Americans. Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad (CHH) is a @democracyatwrk production. The show addresses the intersection of capitalism, class, and personal lives, and explores what is happening in the economic …
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Capitalism’s Impact on Our Personal Lives
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In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad continues speaking about the impacts of a corrupt capitalism system on mental health and personal lives.Door Democracy at Work - Harriet Fraad
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BRICS & The End of US Dominance
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The US is out of control and we are in denial. The proof is abundant: Mass shootings, extreme inequality, lost wars, weak currency, high suicide rates, corporate greed, climate crises, deregulation, and more. In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad draws on decades of experience as a psychologist to remind us that change only happens whe…
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Signs of a Declining Empire
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The US is out of control and we are in denial. The proof is abundant: Mass shootings, extreme inequality, lost wars, weak currency, high suicide rates, corporate greed, climate crises, deregulation, and more. In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad draws on decades of experience as a psychologist to remind us that change only happens whe…
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All Empires Rise and Fall, The US Is No Exception
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In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad traces a brief history of the rise and fall of the American empire. Throughout much of the 20th century, the US was the dominant global power, with strong unions, social programs, and a strong currency. Today, our wealthiest people are barely taxed, social services are weak, hunger and poverty are …
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The Impact of Gender Roles - Care Work, Mass Violence & the Way Forward
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In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad continues to explore the ways our upbringing within gender roles impact our relationship to society, and specifically, why it’s mostly men who commit acts of mass violence. Women traditionally occupy the role of “care worker” and learn to relate differently through the act of caring. Those care occ…
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Where do Gender Roles Come From?
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In this episode of CHH, Dr. Harriet Fraad traces back the origin of gender roles to the beginning of civilization to explore how and why certain types of work have been historically and traditionally performed by the female gender.Door Democracy at Work - Dr. Harriet Fraad
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Inflation & Manufactured Poverty
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In this week’s episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Fraad continues her discussion of the personal effects of inflation. In a country that bombards all of us, even our youngest children, with images of wealth and prosperity as a symbol of worthiness, it is humiliating to struggle to make ends meet. Our culture blames the individual for being stuck …
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