Nomadland is a Liberal Whitewashing of Poverty

Jason Myles
7 min readApr 29, 2021
NOMADLAND is a Neoliberal Whitewashing of Poverty Capitalist Exploitation

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
Aristotle

I watched Nomadland at the request of a friend. She recommended I watch it, get back to her and we could do a podcast episode on it. She didn’t tell me anything about, and I didn’t know anything about it when she mentioned it. Nor did I want to know. For something like this I wanted to go in blind with no prejudice. I…

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Jason Myles

I scream/sing play guitar in Bitter Lake and host the This is Revolution Podcast. Oakland, CA born, Richmond raised. Words and thoughts from the Lower Bottoms.