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Just Give Me Some Water

By Richard SullivanNovember 19, 2022November 19, 2022Capitalism, Social Change, Sociology

A story that illustrates many concepts we discuss in my class: asymmetry of power to construct social reality; irrational consumer behavior in an economic system that presumes all economic decisions are made rationally; and the decades-long movement to turn public goods into private, for-profit commodities.

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