What a week as a Hobbit taught me about Capitalism

Claim your 10 Free Meals + Free Breakfast for Life by using code NICOLERUDOLPHFM at https://bit.ly/4n2TlUe! Want to join us at Brandywine Festival next year? Tickets are up now! https://burgschneider.com/collections... Help out your own community https://www.feedingamerica.org/find-y... The love of Hobbits runs deep, but Tolkien had a lot more to say about community and support than just his words about the halflings. Between the lines runs a fascinating economic structure that might help us untangle just how much we've been taught about how the world has to work. Maybe there's more to our story than what we've been lead to believe. Capitalism isn't the birth of modern technology, it's the cause of an ever lifting ceiling of wealth that leaves the floor well behind. It's what has eaten away at our ability to have community support- but that may be it's true weakness in the end. Recommended Reading: The Big Myth by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway Slouching Towards Utopia by J. Bradford DeLong Join this channel to get access to perks:    / @nicolerudolph   Socials Instagram:   / thenicolerudolph   Twitch:   / nicolerudolph   Tiktok:   / nicole_rudolph   Patreon:   / nicolerudolph   Contact for sponsorships: nicoler@viralnationtalent.com Contact for non-sponsor enquiries: RudolphQuestions@gmail.com Edited with DaVinci Resolve: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/prod... 🎶Music via Epidemic Sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com 00:00 Intro 03:47 Developing Capitalism 11:27 Halfling Economics 16:20 Brandywine Festival 23:28 Community