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Amanda and myself get together for a roundtable discussion.

So here's a few minutes for free so you can see what all the fuss is about.

So, Jackman had this article.

The headline is, you can have billionaires or you can have democracy, but it's really,

it's not necessarily an article, it's an interview with an inequality expert named Chuck Collins

and he worked on a new report from the Institute for Policy Studies.

And the report is in summary.

It is an excellent reminder that even though the bezos of the world and the Bransons and

the mosques get a lot of attention and vitriol, justifiable vitriol in my opinion, thrown

at them, there is a giant but quiet ruling class that has basically made it their life's

mission to hoard their wealth and basically carve politics to their liking and their winning.

And this is the hereditary wealthy, these are the second, third, fourth generations of

wealthy families.

Yeah, this is quote-unquote old money at this point.

And one of the reasons why they're more quiet, there's no figurehead, there are enough children

that the money gets sort of diffused a little bit.

So none of them are like the richest person in the world.

You probably don't know their names.

I mean, that's the difference, right?

Some of the names maybe because their families might be involved enough or have a hospital

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