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#9: Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect Your Social Wealth Dividend

Current Affairs

Current Affairs

Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4645 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Matt Bruenig enters the Shark Tank to pitch a sovereign wealth fund and Lina Khan and Sandeep Vaheesan stop by to explain antitrust. (Plus, the debut of the Current Affairs official Ben Shapiro diss track).

Transcript

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0:00.0

From Studio H3 in the Current Affairs World Headquarters, it's Current Affairs, your ears' greatest

0:10.2

hour of politics and culture.

0:12.7

Today on an extra special policy-heavy program, Matt Brunig enters the lefty shark tank

0:19.0

to pitch a social wealth fund, and Lena Khan and Sandeep Vahisan join us to talk modern day trust busting.

0:27.9

Our panel today, current affairs social media editor Vanessa A.B.

0:33.5

Hi, everyone.

0:34.4

Current Affairs Finance editor, Sparky Abraham.

0:37.1

Hello. Current Affairs senior editor, Brianna Renix. Hello, everyone. Current Affairs finance editor, Sparky Abraham. Hello.

0:37.8

Current Affairs senior editor, Brianna Renix.

0:40.6

Hello, everyone.

0:41.3

And the editor-in-chief himself, Nathan J. Robinson.

0:45.8

Hi, Ben.

0:46.4

I'm your host, Pete Davis.

0:48.1

Let's begin with segment one.

0:50.7

Lefty Shark Tank.

0:51.8

On normal Shark Tank, an aspiring entrepreneur pitches a new business and the sharks ask hard questions and decide if they will support it.

1:01.2

On lefty shark tank, one of us pitches a new left wing idea and the rest of us ask hard questions and then decide if we will support it.

1:10.7

This week's topic, a social wealth fund

1:14.8

pitched by Matt Brunig, founder of the People's Policy Project, which is releasing this

1:20.6

very week a major report on the potential for a social wealth fund. Matt, we are so glad to have you here.

1:30.0

Thanks for having me. Let's begin. Give us your pitch.

1:33.3

All right. So there's a problem in our current society, right? So millionaires own about 80%

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