{"podcast":{"title":"The Culture We Deserve","slug":"the-culture-we-deserve-6690403","podcast_index_feed_id":6690403,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/491441/rss","website_url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/491441","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/e/1/a/b/e1ab3b34a2749d39d959afa2a1bf1c87/Podcast_Logo-20231026-8flxd8qs67.jpg","author":"Jessa Crispin","episode_count":129,"summary":"Hosted by Jessa Crispin, The Culture We Deserve covers the state of the arts.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-24T02:18:26.606280+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-culture-we-deserve-6690403"},"episode":{"title":"Why Are All of Our Communists Millionaires?","slug":"why-are-all-of-our-communists-millionaires","published_at":"2026-04-30T10:27:22+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-culture-we-deserve-6690403/why-are-all-of-our-communists-millionaires","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-culture-we-deserve-6690403","url":"https://08b5f6c4-c5fc-4bcc-a25b-73b360099d87.libsyn.com/why-are-all-of-our-communists-millionaires","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/08b5f6c4-c5fc-4bcc-a25b-73b360099d87/Ep_104.mp3?dest-id=4196741","summary":"Yes, we are doing Hasan Piker/Jia Tolentino microlooting discourse. Microlooting is one of those cursed words -- like latinx, like unhoused -- that accomplishes zero things, is politically alienating, and allows a group of millionaires to talk about \"the rich\" as some other group with zero self-awareness. If woke won't die, it's because our communist millionaires won't let it. But a millionaire-led discourse is why these conversations about contemporary ethics always dead-ends in the question, What is the best way to spend money? Jessa and Nico discuss why our rich love anti-social behavior (they always have! they are bored!) and why, ultimately, their class solidarities will probably always be with the Epstein class. Shownotes and references: http://theculturewedeserve.substack.com","meta_description":"Yes, we are doing Hasan Piker/Jia Tolentino microlooting discourse. Microlooting is one of those cursed words -- like latinx, like unhoused -- that accomp…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6002,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-culture-we-deserve-6690403/episodes/why-are-all-of-our-communists-millionaires/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-culture-we-deserve-6690403/why-are-all-of-our-communists-millionaires.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}