403. The Elites Playing Hunger Games With Your Life - Jenny Kleeman

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🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Journalist Jenny Kleeman exposes the ‘price of life’ around the world. Her fascinating revelations include whether the effective altruists such as Elon Musk and Bill Gates are really interested in your life or are just trying to hit targets. Would they save an 8-year-old child or a Picasso? The answer might surprise you. Jenny has been described as a Louis Theroux channeling Margaret Atwood. Get her book The Price of Life here: https://amzn.to/4a0Vata Follow Jenny on X: https://twitter.com/jennykleeman Get my book The Psychology of Secrets: https://amzn.to/3Wo5p7U Listen to our extra content: http://andrewgold.locals.com Andrew on X: https://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Insta: https://www.instagram.com/andrewgold_ok Heretics YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@andrewgoldheretics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you were standing in front of a burning building and there was a child trapped in one room and a Picasso in the other room and this philosopher said,
0:10.8	yep, I would save the Picasso.
0:12.8	Well, who was that?
0:13.8	They are just merrily going along with their calculations,
0:17.4	making choices about who gets to live and who dies.
0:20.3	This drug, one dose of it, will just stop this disease in its tracks, will cure this condition.
0:26.0	But the company behind it, Novartis, has charged 1.7 million pounds for this drug.
0:33.0	It does feel like you're holding these babies
0:35.8	to ransom, basically.
0:37.1	You have to be something of a psychoman.
0:38.8	It's just that the Silicon Valley billionaires
0:42.0	who are taking this philosophy on.
0:43.6	It turns everything into a kind of computer game, doesn't it?
0:46.2	How many lives did you save?
0:47.3	How many points have you scored?
0:49.0	Which is just incredibly cruel as well.
0:50.6	It's a kind of hunger games thing.
0:52.0	Put your name in and maybe your life will be
0:53.9	safe but maybe not who are we talking about really are we talking about like
0:56.7	Jeff Bezos and his mates at young mus
1:00.8	as I walk down the streets of New York you might hear some of the sounds in the background I'm here for dissident dialogues event which by the time this goes out no I don't think it would have happened yet so if you're in New York
1:15.1	do pop down on the third and fourth of May if I'm in there or when I'm speaking you could look it up on the
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