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4. "By discussing the limits and blind spots of capitalism"
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its inability to address catastrophic climate change, in which ongoing environmental destruction is viewed as an "externality"

that modern liberalism and democratic governance is predicated on maintaining the interest of those who own property vs. those who are treated like property

by challenging the notion of human rights, which "civilized" nations believe extend to everyone inside their borders; when in reality, they are systematically deprived across the poorest countries, which brutally exploit labor to produce our consumer goods

by comparing traditional agrarian-based societies with the horrors of factory farming and concentrated animal feedlots

by challenging the idea that the Holocaust was rooted in hatred, as opposed to indifference; or by demonstrating that concentration camps universally start as labor camps, before governments move towards genocide

by discussing the rise of surveillance capitalism and the financial incentives of private prisons; some of which may have even produced the furniture in their public schools (at a fraction of its market value)

How you chose to illustrate the above depends on their age, but there are plenty of movies you can show: like Charlotte's Web, Judgement at Nuremberg, Schindler's List, and Koyaanisqatsi (to name a few).

  

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How do you teach children about capitalism? [View all] , imcvspl, Tue Sep-15-20 02:05 PM
 
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How old are they? What do you want to get across?
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Objectively?
Sep 15th 2020
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      This touches everything - so talk about something you know
Sep 16th 2020
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What do you want to teach them? to succeed in it or why it is bad?
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Introduce the Degrowth Movement and Concepts
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rewind the clock to a time before
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I don't understand this question. Is this something that's difficult??
Sep 16th 2020
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That's not capitalism.
Sep 16th 2020
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who said anything about working hard? I didn't. all that other stuff = n...
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      They are trying to raise some future Portland protestors
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      Do you spend a lot of time around students?
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           I don’t spend any time around students right now
Sep 16th 2020
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                Yeah, I zero'd in on children...because that's 10 years and under to me....
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      daddy whats capitalism? "shh go to bed dear. daddy's watching football"
Sep 16th 2020
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Your description isn’t dark enough
Sep 16th 2020
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^^^^ pretty simple really
Sep 16th 2020
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notice you have no real perspective on things.
Sep 16th 2020
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      RE: notice you have no real perspective on things.
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           This is a message board, where we discuss things. I believe in you.
Sep 16th 2020
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You're not describing capitalism
Sep 16th 2020
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Oxford
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short answer: no, that is not the gist
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      This part has more legs than you let on
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      Right on.
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      money. makes. the. world. go. around.
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           i hear you.
Sep 16th 2020
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Some good suggestions already.
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You said you failed a few times.. what’s failure?
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Re: Failure
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Identity plays a big role in someones understanding of capitalism
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play Monopoly, do kids still play board games?
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You could try this activity
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Slavery, drug, colonization, greedy Europeans
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