With $200 billion in assets, Jeff Bezos has once again become the richest man in the world.

He overtook Elon Musk's fortune of $198 billion.

With the five richest people on the planet hoarding nearly $1 trillion, more and more people are coming to the

conclusion that we need a radical redistribution of wealth.

We need a new system.

We need a new society.

We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. We are excited to have Professor Richard Wolfe join us again for our regular weekly segment,

where we talk about the biggest stories related to the economy, the state of the working class, and the crimes of

big business. I'm your host, Brian Becker. The Socialist Program brings you content several days

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Richard Wolfe is the co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work and the author of many books,

the latest being the sickness is the system when capitalism fails

to save us from pandemics or itself. You can check out all of his work at R-D-Wolf.com.

That's R-D-W-L-F-F.com. Professor Wolf, welcome back.

Thank you very much, boy. I'm glad to be here.

In some ways, Richard, this story is just kind of

cartoonish, but it goes to a serious issue, and that's why we wanted to talk about it. There's

kind of celebrity billionaire culture where the working class, the people who can barely make ends

meet, in many cases can't make ends meet, are told by relentless

media sort of content about the lives and the status of the people who oppress them as if

they're supposed to be mesmerized and sort of fantasizing about their wonderful life, as if they're some great contributors to society.

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