BILLIONAIRES: WHAT ARE THEY GOOD FOR?

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Join me on my constitutional. I enquire into the matter of the extreme concentrations of wealth and power in the hands of a small number of billionaires and take issue with a couple of the regular justifications for this status quo. The first of these is the notion that if people can't get hyper-rich without restriction that that would be an affront to liberty. The second is the notion that the ability to accumulate vast amounts of wealth and power by a few somehow makes for dynamism and innovation which benefits everybody via trickle down. Beware! Contains utopian speculation. [Free. 31 minutes.]

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BILLIONAIRES: WHAT ARE THEY GOOD FOR?

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#Religion #Society #Politics #News #Philosophy #Pete Yates #Tao Te Ching

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