Beef: Lee Sung Jin on Capitalism, Class Struggle, and Samsara

About this episode

In this episode, we’ve got major Beef. Host Gabe González chats with Lee Sung Jin, creator and writer of Netflix’s wildly popular, critically acclaimed Beef. They discuss why this season’s key theme is the Buddhist and Hindu term “samsara,” how challenging it is to find inter-class solidarity within the confines of capitalism, and the ways Korean billionaires are similar and different to American billionaires. Then, executive director of the Peabodys, Jeffrey Jones, speaks with Vulture Capitalism author Grace Blakeley. The author and journalist unpacks the ways capitalism and neoliberalism have decimated freedom, and how collective solidarity might just be our way forward.