WEBVTT - Digital Cages 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.920 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wikayeff Daily with Meet 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:18.280 your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from our pod stream 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:22.880 studios here in Times Square, Folks, The fallout continues from 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:28.000 the whistle bower of Francis Hagen's deep, deep dive into 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:32.159 Facebook's decision to you know, put profit ahead of people, 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:35.599 as we all know they've been doing. Zuckerberg, even though 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:39.680 he lost seven billion dollars this week, is still you know, 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:44.640 hella fucking rich. And what pisces me off beyond belief 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:49.080 about this continual fallout is one his bullshit statement that 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:52.000 he put out this week that basically says, oh that 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:54.920 Francis doesn't know what she's talking about, because you know, 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:59.520 evidently she can't read their own internal Facebook reports that 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:02.200 tell us exactly what it is that they've been doing. 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:05.800 That they were able to fix algorithms so that they 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:10.319 could skew against misinformation for the twenty twenty election, but 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:13.639 then once the election was done, they could flip the switch, 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:17.640 change the algorithm back so that people were continuing to 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:20.839 get misinformation, spread hate, and do all of the vile 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.440 things that we know that people are doing on social media. 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:27.240 And once again he is taking absolutely no responsibility for 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.640 it and feigning dumb. And my question, now, folks, is this, 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:33.920 does he think that we are all stupid? Like? This 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:39.280 is what is happening with these people right who make 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.040 a ton of fucking money. We know that in order 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:46.200 to become a multibillionaire, chances are you're not doing it 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:48.520 on the up and up. Now, I'm not saying that 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:53.480 Zuckerberg is a criminal, but I'm saying that what bleeds leads, right, 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:57.120 So we know that hate groups, we know that, you know, 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:01.280 Russian misinformation, China interference, all of these things are happening, 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:03.960 and they could do something about it. But at the 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:07.600 end of the day, it would disrupt Facebook's profits. Now 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:11.160 here's the thing. They're not saying they wouldn't make money. 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:14.080 It's not as if doing right and having morals and 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:17.240 values would stop them from making money. No, they just 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:20.359 wouldn't make as much, right, And so one of the 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:24.360 questions that I want answered is exactly how much money 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.800 would they stand to lose? Like? Are they still making 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:31.160 billions upon billions of dollars a year? I'm pretty sure 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:34.680 that they fucking are. And so the desire here to 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:37.840 once again try and pretend that they don't know what 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:42.040 they're doing. That, oh, Francis couldn't possibly read these reports, 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.000 and because she wasn't sitting in these groups, doesn't know 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:47.760 what we all know, which is that social media also 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:51.000 harms young people. How is that, Oh, I don't know. 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.760 Because when you're inundated with images of beauty or beauty 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:59.359 expectations that are outside of normal bodies, then yeah, you're 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:01.440 going to start to look at yourself and say that 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.480 there's something wrong with you. The reality, folks, is, at 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:07.959 the end of the day, Facebook needs to be regulated, right, 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:12.600 algorithms need to be regulated. This mega monopoly that they 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:16.400 have needs to be broken up, and Francis has provided 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.480 the roadmap for Congress to do so. The question is 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:22.560 whether or not they will. I want to bring up 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:28.920 a recent report that all in Together, Women Leading Change 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:33.639 put together to showcase the polling. Folks, again, we're talking 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:37.280 about twenty twenty two midterm elections, and I've been talking 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:39.840 about this because it's right around the corner. We only 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:42.280 have but a couple of months left in twenty twenty one. 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:44.840 Can you believe that let me just pause for a second. 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:49.320 It is, folks, going to be twenty twenty two, meaning 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:52.000 that we've been living in the midst of a global 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:55.920 health pandemic for going on two years. Like, let's wrap 0:03:55.960 --> 0:04:00.560 your mind around that. But the All in Together poll 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:04.320 shows young people and I want people to pay attention, 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:08.680 feel less motivated ahead of twenty twenty two election cycle. 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:11.920 So let me read you this directly from All in 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:16.719 Together's page, and then we'll discuss The nonpartisan advocacy group 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:19.280 All in Together has teamed up with Lake Research in 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:24.040 Emerson College Polling to explore what is motivating people as 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:26.599 we look forward to the twenty twenty two men terms. 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:31.839 This survey looked at a thousand registered voters nationwide from 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:36.160 September twenty second to the twenty fourth, with a three 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:39.640 negative three point one margin of era. This survey also 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:43.919 oversampled two hundred Black women, two hundred Latin women, and 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:49.279 two hundred Asian American Pacific Islander women. The oversamples were 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.359 weighted down to reflect their actual proportion of women. The 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:56.400 survey was conducted using a mixed method of IVR online 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:59.200 and SMS to the web. Here is what they found 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:05.359 and this is what is concerning. According to All in Together, 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:09.640 there is an enthusiasm gap in voting among young voters. 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:15.320 AI TS New Poland shows a massive enthusiasm gap between generations. 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:18.560 Younger voters are at least motivated age group to vote. 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:22.360 Only thirty five percent of eighteen to twenty nine year 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:26.400 old voters are very motivated to vote, and only twenty 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:30.479 eight percent are almost certain to vote next year, compared 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.880 to fifty two point nine percent and fifty one point 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:39.360 two percent, respectively of the overall electorate. This is after 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:43.679 they say record youth turnout in twenty twenty. So here's 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:47.760 one of the things that I want to unpack, which 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.840 is this, This is the problem that Democrats are going 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:53.040 to be facing as they go into twenty twenty two, 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:56.840 because you see Republicans set up right the fact that 0:05:56.880 --> 0:06:00.040 they are an obstructionist group. They don't actually give a 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:03.480 fuck about governing, and quite honestly, they're terrible at it. 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:08.120 Because Donald Trump within his presidency added roughly seven trillion 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:10.800 dollars to the national debt. Every single time that a 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:15.320 Republican is in power, our debt rises right astronomically. But 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:18.920 here's the thing. Republicans also don't promise you shit. They 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:21.600 don't promise you policy change. They don't promise to make 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:25.240 your lives better, right. What they do offer is to 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:30.600 roll back rights and to assume to create a Christian 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:36.000 fundamentalist authoritarian society. This is what they propose. So you see, 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:41.040 folks don't look to the Republican Party for anything really. 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:45.400 But the problem is that Democrats and Joe Biden in particular, 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:48.840 when he was campaigning, said that he was going to 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:51.120 be the adult in the room, that we were going 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:54.719 to what build back better together, that he was going 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:56.080 to be the one that was going to be able 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:59.800 to negotiate with the domestic terrorists that we call the GOP, 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:03.000 and that he was going to be able to get 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:06.799 the job done of putting America back on the map. Well, 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:11.000 here's the thing, folks. We have yet to put together 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:15.520 the infrastructure bill, right, the three point five trillion dollar bill. 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:21.040 We just reached a decision, right, an agreement on raising 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.480 the debt ceiling, but that just kicked the can down 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:26.800 the road until December. Mitch McConnell did, in fact blink. 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:30.240 But again, this is not an overall fix. It's a 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:32.920 band aid on a broken leg. Because we should not 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.920 need to have an active Congress or a vote to 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:39.360 continually raise our debt ceiling. It should be something that 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:43.200 automatically kicks in, right, and we know that the debt 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:46.840 ceiling was raised three times under the Trump administration so 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:50.480 that they could spend fucking widely and offer up all 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.960 of their tax cuts to the uber wealthy. I digress. 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:56.960 The fact of the matter is that Democrats are the 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:01.120 party of promises. They promise us a lot, and unfortunately, 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:06.480 going against the reality of an obstructionist right wing party, 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:10.720 they are not able to deliver. So when young people 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:14.080 risk their lives and people of color in twenty twenty 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:17.080 to have a historic turnout, they did so not just 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:19.360 because they wanted to get rid of Donald Trump, but 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:24.080 because they needed someone to take control of COVID nineteen. Well, 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:27.240 here we are, folks, where we have reached. Seven hundred 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:31.800 thousand Americans have died of COVID nineteen. The vaccination rate 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:34.480 has reached a plateau. We have a little bit more 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:37.400 people getting vaccinated, but that's really just people getting the 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:43.760 booster shots. Right. Fizer has has just asked the FDA 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:49.800 to certify the vaccinations for five to eleven year olds, right, 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:53.920 and to ramp that up so that that could possibly 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:59.120 have twenty eight million more people vaccinated if we expand 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:04.199 it to that age group again. But there is still folks, 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:08.000 a substantial amount of Americans that are not vaccinated, and 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:12.679 the rollout has been up and down. One minute, we're 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:14.640 told to wear a mask, the next minute we're told 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.360 not to. One minute, we're told to social distance, the 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:20.240 next minute we're told not to. One minute, we're told 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:23.240 that the fis of vaccination is one hundred percent great, 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:25.560 and then the next minute we learned maderna is better. 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:29.600 I'm not saying that it is not our responsibility as 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:34.640 an educated citizensury not to be intellectually nimble. We need that. 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:37.800 But the reality is is that the entirety of the 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:42.400 vaccination rollout hasn't gone according to plan because I don't 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:46.360 think that Democrats once again had their eyes wide open 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:49.320 to what it was that Republicans were going to do. 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:51.720 That there was going to be an entire network like 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.680 Fox News that was going to be an anti vaccine 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:58.880 network that has tens of millions of people that are 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:03.600 viewing it every single day. The other reality, right, we 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:08.320 don't have the infrastructure bill, and so when we're going 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:11.280 to the polls, when Democrats are getting ready to campaign. 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:15.120 What the fuck are they campaigning on? Because we've lost 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:19.400 women's rights right in Texas right now. We know that 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:23.200 a judge has intervened, The federal judge in Texas has 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.240 put a stop right on the band. But that's just 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.480 going to be kicked to the Fifth Circuit Court, which 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:31.040 we know is extremely conservative, and then we'll make its 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:34.320 way up to Trump's Supreme Court. Right, So, what is 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:37.240 the likelihood that we don't lose women's rights all together? 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:40.560 And mind you, just let me mind you that December 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:44.200 first is going to be when the Supreme Court starts 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:47.520 hearing the Mississippi case, which is about a fifteen week 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:53.199 abortion ban. Right then, on top of that, we can't 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:56.240 pass the John Lewis Voting Rights at and we can't 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:59.280 do anything about the over three hundred bills that have 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:02.120 been pushed out across a majority of the states in 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:05.680 this country to suppress the vote. So when young people 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.840 are looking at their fucking future right now, does it 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:11.920 look bright to anybody? No, it does it. It looks 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:15.200 like they're inheriting a lot of bullshit baggage from the 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:19.679 boomers and down. So when we're looking at these numbers, 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:23.199 I don't want us to turn around and start blaming 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:26.160 young people, right, because this is where it goes. If 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:29.160 Democrats lose in mid terms, who you think it's going 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:32.000 to be the scapegoats. It's gonna be black people, and 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:36.679 it's gonna be young people, as opposed to saying, here's 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:41.479 the thing, you haven't delivered. Shit, We delivered you Congress 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:44.520 and the fucking White House and you can't get dick done. 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:48.040 So how is it that we're supposed to be the 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:51.800 ones that are creating the enthusiasm when we have a 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:56.240 democratic administration and a democratic Congress that is at a 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:01.920 what a stalemate with themselves? So of course you have 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:04.199 eighteen to twenty nine year olds that are looking around 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:07.280 and saying, fuck this, what am I voting for? And 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.360 it's not just them, And I can't say that I 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:14.480 blame them because again, we're looking around. It has been 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:19.080 nine months, nine months into this administration, and we have 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:23.360 gotten very little done, and our democracy is on the 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:27.840 fucking line, and people are looking around and saying, we 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:31.640 can't address climate change head on. We don't have massive 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:35.040 legislation for that. There's only a piece of that within 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:38.720 the infrastructure bill. But remember Joe Mansion wasn't comfortable with 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:44.080 climate language. Mister Cole doesn't like us creating infrastructure and 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:49.880 demands of companies to, you know, combat this pressing crisis 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:53.240 that we are in. He doesn't like the dollar amount, 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:56.600 so he doesn't want the American people's own tax dollars 0:12:57.000 --> 0:13:01.720 right to be invested back into the American people. Then 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:05.960 you have Curs in cinema who won't even get on 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:08.400 camera to talk about what the fuck she is for 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:11.320 or against, so we don't know. You have her own 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:14.600 constituents chasing that bitch down in the bathroom and her 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:17.560 deciding to say, oh, this is inappropriate. You know what's 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:21.680 inappropriate being a senator and not doing anything for the 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:25.559 people that actually voted and campaigned to get you into office, 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.320 and doing an about face on whether or not you're 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:31.160 going to be a part of our democracy's future or 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:35.600 its demise. So, of course, when we are looking at 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:39.840 these numbers, it makes sense to me that young people 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.720 are looking around and saying, what am I voting for? 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:47.439 And that is a huge problem for Democrats because they're 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:50.880 the ones who, once again, do you know what issues 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:54.160 that these folks care about? Well, let me tell you 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:58.920 So the number one issue for women eighteen to twenty nine, 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:03.760 No shock, he is abortion. Thirteen percent of women. That 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.400 is their number one issue of young people in this 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:09.439 age group. Of course, it is because if they can't 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:12.080 control when and how they have a family, how are 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:14.560 they going to be able to control their careers. How 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:16.439 are they going to be able to control whether or 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.720 not they're able to access higher education if they're saddled 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:23.960 with kids that they can't afford. So that's a major issue. 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:27.520 And again, what is it that this administration is doing 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:31.440 to ensure that all people that are able to birth 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:38.280 have access to safe, right and readily available abortions. So 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:42.600 that's another thing. The second thing that folks are really 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:47.360 concerned about as an overall, right, men and women are 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:51.400 concerned about twenty four percent of women and twenty percent 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:55.640 of men say that COVID nineteen is their number one issue. Well, 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.200 of course it is because all of our lives have 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:01.800 been turned upside down of parents playing Russian roulette with 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:04.680 their children's lives by sending them back to school, not 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:08.080 knowing when in fact they're going to be told that 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:09.960 the school is shutting down or the kid has to 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:13.760 stay home for two weeks because of a COVID outbreak, right, 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:18.400 And again we have all of the information, but we 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:21.560 are not disseminating it. Democrats are not disseminating in a 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:25.560 way that it's a breaking through the misinformation. This has 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:29.160 been a problem since twenty sixteen, folks, and we didn't 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:33.320 do anything about it then. So again you're looking at 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:36.640 the issues that matter to young people. On top of that, 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:42.480 it is rising prices, right, and increased debt. The Biden 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:46.760 administration only eliminated student debt for certain groups of people, 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:50.240 and it was those from the disabled community and a 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:55.560 few others. That's not eliminating student debt, right. That is 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:58.680 crushing people. That is not allowing them to invest in 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:01.000 buying homes. That is having them live at home with 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:04.000 their families, right, and their parents because they can't afford 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:07.200 to live on their owns. That is stopping people. Because 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.960 here's another study that I want to bring up as well, 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.600 which is just fucking wild. But here's another report that 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:17.960 ties in to the fact that young people are not 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:23.040 enthusiastic about voting. According to Time Magazine and a recent 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:27.280 Pew Research analysis, this is the title of this article, 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:31.640 men are now more likely to be single than women. 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:35.960 It's not a good sign. And in the Pew research data, 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:39.640 what they are finding is that men are more likely 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.320 to be living at home with their parents. Single men, 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.800 and that they're not making nearly as much money as 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:49.160 they once were, and that they're not as educated as 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:52.600 the women are. You see, because society has set up 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:56.000 in a way that men, by virtue were always going 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:58.720 to make more money and therefore didn't need to go 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:02.080 and get higher Edgy women, on the other hand, needed 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:05.199 to build up their resumes be just to be treated 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:08.159 as equal. And we still are not paid as equal 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:10.960 or treated as equal in the workplace. But now this 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:14.920 is trickling down. Let me read you this piece. Almost 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:17.679 a third of adult single men live with a parent. 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:22.320 That is startling. Single men are much more likely to 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:27.159 be unemployed, financially fragile, and to lack a college degree 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:31.280 than those with a partner. They're also likely to have 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:35.800 lower median earnings. Single men earned less in twenty nineteen 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:41.560 than in nineteen ninety, even adjusting for inflation. Single women meanwhile, 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.359 earned the same as they did thirty years ago. Because 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.320 we don't have a fucking Equal Pay Act in this 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:50.400 country and so we can continue to pay women less 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:54.360 for the same job, but those with partners have increased 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:57.760 their earnings by fifty percent. There are some of these 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:00.399 or some of the findings in the new Pew Research 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:04.199 analysis of twenty nineteen data on the growing gap between 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:07.720 adults American adults who live with a partner and those 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:10.639 who do not. While the study is less about the 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:13.520 effect of marriage and more about the effect of a 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:18.800 changing economic circumstances, circumstances that have an effect on marriage, 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:25.679 because here's the idea, are you going to be actively dating, 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:29.360 actively wanting to join your life with somebody else when 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:31.520 you are living at home with your parents and don't 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:35.000 have a stable income. Once again, this all comes back 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:39.720 to our failing economy. The reality is this that it 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:43.720 is very expensive to live in America right. It is 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:49.560 very expensive to go to go to college. You're talking 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:55.040 about average people raking in debts of six figures for 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:58.919 a higher education that is not necessarily going to command 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:01.000 them the salary that is going to help them to 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:06.000 pay off that debt, So why go This is why 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:09.400 another study came out and said that more men are 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:13.520 not going into going to higher education, that more men 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:17.720 are dropping out of college because what is happening here 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:22.679 is that our economy is not keeping pace right and 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:25.800 people are not making as much as they used to. 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:29.159 Let me go on to show this because there was 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:34.119 another startling issue here that I found. And of course 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:38.160 when we look at communities of color, these numbers are 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:42.640 even worse. I'll go on. The trend has not had 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:47.000 an equal impact across all sectors of society. The Pew study, 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:50.800 which uses information from the twenty nineteen American Community Survey, 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:54.159 notes that men are now more likely to be single 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:57.080 than women, which was not the case thirty years ago. 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:01.000 Black people are much more likely to be single get 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:06.439 this fifty nine percent than any other race, and Black 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:10.560 women sixty two percent are more likely to be single 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:14.800 of any sector. Asian people twenty nine percent are the 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:18.600 least likely to be single, followed by whiteset thirty three 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:23.119 and Hispanics at thirty eight percent. Most researchers agree that 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:26.199 the trend lines showing that fewer people are getting married 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:29.760 and that those who do are increasingly better off financially, 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:33.359 have a lot to do with the effect of wealth 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:37.760 and education on marriage, then vice versa. People who are 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:42.040 financially stable are just more likely to find and attract 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:47.080 a partner. So again this goes back to what are 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:51.080 we doing to ensure that people are not having crippling debt? 0:20:51.440 --> 0:20:55.120 What are we doing to increase and make certain that 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:59.359 we have good paying jobs. I did a debate recently 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:03.560 with a conservative, right wing Republican who said, I don't 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:06.400 know what this study is talking about because there are 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:10.560 so many jobs. I see many job openings, and I'm like, 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:14.040 just because you see job openings in your neighborhood does 0:21:14.080 --> 0:21:17.919 not mean that that translates to the nation. And also, 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:21.960 their reason why there are so many job openings in retail, 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:26.159 for instance, right now, is because it doesn't fucking pay 0:21:26.440 --> 0:21:30.000 and it doesn't have health benefits. And when you're living 0:21:30.280 --> 0:21:34.200 in the midst of a health pandemic, having health insurance 0:21:34.280 --> 0:21:38.760 and health benefits is really fucking good. So why would 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:41.959 you be at a job that pays you minimum wage 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:45.600 or below and doesn't provide you with benefits. You're better 0:21:45.760 --> 0:21:49.919 off not going into those positions. So when we're talking 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:52.320 about whether or not people are going to be able 0:21:52.320 --> 0:21:56.320 to leave home, we're talking about the reality that here's 0:21:56.320 --> 0:22:00.919 the thing. We need, better jobs, good paying jobs for 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:05.440 all people, because right now folks are opting out and 0:22:05.520 --> 0:22:11.040 that's the problem, folks. I am so excited to welcome 0:22:11.080 --> 0:22:15.400 to the show for the very first time the campaign 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:20.840 director of CHIROS, the Digital First organizers behind Tech Is 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:25.960 Not Neutral campaign and the recently launched Facebook Logout campaign, 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:33.240 Gilanni Drew Davie. Gilanni, can you talk to us about 0:22:33.400 --> 0:22:39.480 your initial reactions to the Facebook whistleblower Francis Hagen and 0:22:40.400 --> 0:22:43.240 what we have learned We're I mean, because I will 0:22:43.240 --> 0:22:45.399 tell you this, I don't know if I needed the 0:22:45.480 --> 0:22:49.240 internal documents to tell me that Facebook was putting profits 0:22:49.240 --> 0:22:51.920 over people and that they were more concerned with making 0:22:51.960 --> 0:22:55.280 money than they were with stopping hate groups and white supremacy. 0:22:56.240 --> 0:23:01.520 But what were your reactions and the reactions of CAIROS. Yeah, 0:23:01.560 --> 0:23:04.520 so I'm first super excited to talk to you and 0:23:04.560 --> 0:23:08.280 be here about it. I think that, you know, the 0:23:08.320 --> 0:23:11.879 first reactions that we had as CHIROS, as an organization 0:23:11.920 --> 0:23:15.040 who's been kind of doing this work for a while 0:23:15.160 --> 0:23:19.160 and both both in the campaigning organizing realm, but also 0:23:19.240 --> 0:23:23.560 building up organizers to do digital organizing and do it 0:23:23.640 --> 0:23:26.800 on tech issues, I think it was the same. You know, 0:23:27.040 --> 0:23:29.560 I didn't really need the internal documents. I didn't really 0:23:29.600 --> 0:23:33.840 need to hear the whistleblower Francis saying the things that 0:23:33.880 --> 0:23:37.520 she was saying, and it was reiterating a point that 0:23:37.720 --> 0:23:40.919 you know, civil rights groups to accountability groups have been 0:23:40.960 --> 0:23:44.400 saying for for years and for as us as users 0:23:44.480 --> 0:23:48.360 have been experiencing for years. And so, you know, very 0:23:48.440 --> 0:23:51.920 very appreciative all ways of whistleblowers, especially from Silicon Valley, 0:23:51.960 --> 0:23:54.879 but it's very hard to you know, come out and 0:23:55.480 --> 0:23:58.320 say the things and be public about it. So very 0:23:58.320 --> 0:24:03.399 appreciative that also, I think, you know, it wasn't a 0:24:03.400 --> 0:24:06.919 surprise at all. You know, I think that one of 0:24:06.920 --> 0:24:11.760 the things that we are all learning, which is really disconcerning, 0:24:12.440 --> 0:24:18.119 is the fact that white supremacy, right hate, homophobia, transphobia, 0:24:18.200 --> 0:24:21.640 all of these things have no boundaries. Right. They now 0:24:21.680 --> 0:24:25.000 have algorithms, Right, we have a way of being able 0:24:25.000 --> 0:24:29.720 to tap into people's worst instincts. And we're using now 0:24:29.800 --> 0:24:33.879 platforms that were originally i think created to bring people together, 0:24:34.200 --> 0:24:38.959 to bring families and communities and students and all of 0:24:39.000 --> 0:24:43.240 these different types of people seven billion people right together. 0:24:43.960 --> 0:24:47.560 And now what we have seen, at least through the 0:24:47.640 --> 0:24:52.240 activation of these hate groups using Facebook is just an 0:24:52.240 --> 0:24:56.679 increase in tribalism, an increase in how things go viral 0:24:56.800 --> 0:25:00.760 or what makes things go viral. Talk to us about 0:25:00.800 --> 0:25:05.720 the Tech is Not Neutral campaign and why it's important 0:25:05.720 --> 0:25:08.840 for us to have these conversations about who is actually 0:25:08.920 --> 0:25:13.160 creating the tech, who is creating the artificial intelligence, who 0:25:13.280 --> 0:25:18.359 is creating these algorithms, and through what perspective they're doing. So, yeah, 0:25:18.400 --> 0:25:22.040 for sure, I think, you know, tech company products have 0:25:22.200 --> 0:25:27.480 real life consequences for people, for real people. And when 0:25:27.480 --> 0:25:29.399 I say that too, I also want to put a 0:25:29.440 --> 0:25:33.080 little like asterisk of the people who experience the most 0:25:33.080 --> 0:25:35.320 harm are also the same people who experienced the most 0:25:35.320 --> 0:25:39.040