(2014/03/23) The affliction of wealth on people and society (Economics)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 23 March 2014
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Edition #811
The affliction of wealth on people and society
Today we look at some of the reasons why rich people have a tendency to be some of the worst people on the planet and how their actions make things worse for everyone, including themselves.
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: The persecuted rich - @allinwithchris Hayes - Air Date: 01-30-14
Ch. 3: Song 1: Perfect balance - PEEZZE
Ch. 4: Act 2: Why Do Crazy Rich People Keep Talking About Nazism? - @majorityfm - Air Date: 03-20-14
Ch. 5: Song 2: Friends and neighbors - Sammy Kaye
Ch. 6: Act 3: Former Wolf Of Wall Street Comes Clean In Op-Ed - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 02-03-14
Ch. 7: Song 3: Philosophy - Ben Folds
Ch. 8: Act 4: Affluenza vs Impoverbetes - Disorderly Conduct (@Dis_Con) - Air Date 12-16-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: My wealth comes to me - Ben Sollee
Ch. 10: Act 5: They're Bigger Assholes Than You Ever Thought | Wall Street Secret Society Infiltrated - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 02-19-14
Ch. 11: Song 5: The game is rigged - The Great Malarkey
Ch. 12: Act 6: Citizen’s United Take Two via @CommonCause - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 13: Song 6: Activism - Shihan
Ch. 14: Act 7: Paul Piff: Does money make you mean? - TEDx - Air Date: 12-2013
Voicemails:
Ch. 15: Coverage of Ukraine dropped the ball - Issac from DC
Ch. 16: Thoughts on Joss Whedon's speech - Rosa from Denver, CO
Ch. 17: The cold war then and now - Maureen from Mass
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 18: Final comments on my bad mood leading to today's fuck-the-rick episode
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
ACTIVISM:
Take Action on McCutcheon v FEC from Common Cause
Sources/further reading:
McCutcheon v Federal Election Commission from SCOTUS Blog
"Scalia’s looming fiasco: Obscure new SCOTUS case may be worse than Citizens United" by Josh Eidelson
"Six Supreme Court Cases to Watch This Term” by Jessica Mason Pieklo
"How Much Did Sheldon Adelson Really Spend on Campaign 2012?” from ProPublica
”Who Is Foster Friess? Seven Facts You Need to Know” from
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.8 | For details, visit the membership tab at BestOfTheLifetime.com and welcome to the award-winning |
| 0:10.0 | BestOfTheLifetime Podcast with clips today from all in with Chris Hayes, The Majority |
| 0:13.1 | Report, The Young Turks, Disorderly Conduct, BestOfTheLifetime Activism, and a speech |
| 0:17.2 | from Ted X. And no, I'm not saying that all rich people are actually assholes, but as |
| 0:22.4 | we will learn today, it does appear safer to assume them assholes until proven otherwise. |
| 0:28.5 | For this week, you've probably never heard of a guy named Tom Perkins. |
| 0:32.5 | It's a pretty interesting dude, multi-millionaire venture capitalist, formerly married to fame |
| 0:37.0 | novelist Daniel Steele, and in 1996 was convicted in France of involuntary manslaughter |
| 0:41.8 | for a yacht accident that killed a man. |
| 0:45.0 | Tom Perkins' star has risen this week because, as a multi-millionaire, he wrote a letter |
| 0:49.2 | of the Wall Street Journal in which he compared the rising populist sentiment against the |
| 0:53.0 | rich in America to crystal-knocked in Nazi Germany. |
| 0:56.4 | I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to San Francisco's war |
| 1:01.6 | on its 1%. |
| 1:03.1 | Crystal Knock was unthinkable in 1930, is its descendant progressive radicalism unthinkable |
| 1:07.6 | now? |
| 1:08.6 | And then in a pretty incredible follow-up interview, Perkins appeared on Bloomberg TV to |
| 1:12.7 | apologize kind of. |
| 1:14.7 | Do you regret this comparison? |
| 1:19.7 | Yes. |
| 1:20.7 | I talked to the head of the anti-deformation league Abe Foxman this morning, following up |
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