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The Real Point of Protests, and LA's Income Inequality
from ICE, Iran, & The American Summer | The Tim Dillon Show #448 · #448
3 min
He argues protests are supposed to win the moral high ground via nonviolence, not burning cars, and pivots into describing LA's extreme income inequality and reliance on illegal labor in food and construction despite rising prices.
- The point of a protest is to be peaceful so a cop punches you and the photo goes viral, gaining moral high ground.
- Tim discusses Ray Compton's point that you can't defeat authority with violence, only through moral victory.
- LA is a dysfunctional place where people live in shantytowns and serve a class of millionaires and billionaires.
- Tim has never seen more dramatic income inequality than in Los Angeles, where 40% of legal immigrants in California live.
- California's main industries run on illegal labor, and Tim doesn't want people zip-tied and thrown in cars, but questions why this happened.
- Illegal labor in food production doesn't make it cheaper; illegal labor in construction doesn't make homes cheaper—everything is more expensive than ever.
- Corporate use of illegal labor increases value only to shareholders and investors, not to workers or consumers.
- The only jobs left are gig work like DoorDash; you can't build a society where people can only DoorDash.
- Tim argues there has to be an honest way to say this system has resulted in the immiseration of certain groups in America.