Affirmative Action for Lazy, Bored Rich Kids
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode Brian Becker and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss the new study showing that elite schools enroll wealthy students far more than the rest of us.
Professor Richard Wolff is an author & co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work. You can find his work at rdwolff.com, and more about this discussion in his article The World Economy Is Changing—the People Know, But Their Leaders Don’t.
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| 0:00.0 | Elite colleges in the United States have long been filled with the children of the very richest families. |
| 0:09.1 | At Ivy League schools, one in six students has parents in the top 1%. |
| 0:15.0 | Now there's a new study of elite college admissions data that suggests that being rich is its own qualification. |
| 0:23.6 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded |
| 0:30.6 | impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. We are very excited to have Professor Richard Wolfe |
| 1:02.0 | join us again for our regular weekly segment, |
| 1:05.0 | where we talk about the biggest stories related to the economy, |
| 1:08.0 | the state of the working class, and the crimes of big business. |
| 1:11.7 | I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 1:13.7 | The Socialist Program brings you content three days a week, thanks to the support of our patrons |
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| 1:28.6 | today if you enjoy listening or relying on this show or both. |
| 1:33.0 | Richard Wolfe is the co-founder of the Organization Democracy at Work. |
| 1:36.4 | He's the author of many books. |
| 1:37.8 | The latest being The Sickness is the System when capitalism fails to save us from pandemics |
| 1:43.7 | or itself. You can check out all of |
| 1:45.8 | his work at rd-wulf.com. That's R-D-W-O-L-F-F.com. Professor Wolfe, welcome back. |
| 1:52.9 | Thank you, Brian. Very glad to be here. You know, Professor Wolf, I'm sometimes, I kind of mutter to |
| 1:59.5 | myself, like, why do we need a study about that? |
| 2:02.2 | Everybody knows that. |
| 2:04.1 | And this is true about so many of the studies that are commissioned, pay for, you know, big-time |
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