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Caro & Katie discuss your questions about:

* Whether the “financial independence, retire early” movement is an effective way to Cordyceps-bug (visual below) capitalism for your own freedom or a gateway drug to the life-diminishing tendency to obsess about money

* Why Katie would accept Fox News’s radical Marxist label

* Caro’s Yesteryear experience and why success sometimes feels like failure

* The creative process and whether creating from a place of defensiveness makes for shittier art

* The future of Diabolical Lies if you people continue to tolerate us

* Politically agnostic friends and the expectation that every element of your personal life conforms to your political ideals

* Whether Christianity and feminism are compatible, and if feminism can really be “compatible” with any belief system that evolved under thousands of years of patriarchy

* Conspiracy theories we believe in

* How to feel generally better about your career under capitalism

* The difficulty of “killing the (misogynist, capitalist, etc.) cop in your head” and choosing more fulfilling work that may earn less or no money

* Whether we use PowerPoints to present our outlines to one another and how our research process has evolved from our glorified voice notes

* Neutralizing the male gaze and self-objectification theory

We’ll see paid subscribers again in October for a topical episode that will (probably) be about the never-ending breastfeeding vs. formula culture war.