CHUCK COLLINS on Wealth Hoarding and Capitalist Capture /340

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🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In an increasingly unequal and precarious world, how might we come to combat disconnection and disillusionment? In this episode, guest Cuck Collins dives deeply into the world of wealth hoarding and staggering inequality. Recognizing the complexity of these issues, Ayana and Chuck engage deeply with questions of philanthrocapitalism, tax spending, the wealth defense industry, and power inequities across society. Chuck explains that as wealth concentrates in fewer and fewer hands it perpetua...

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to For the Wild Podcast, I'm Ayanna Young.
0:07.0	Today we are speaking with Chuck Collins.
0:11.0	Privilege or wealth is a disconnection drug.
0:14.0	It keeps people apart from one another and from building authentic real connections
0:19.0	and communities.
0:20.0	When you have that kind of wealth, you don't really have to ask for help.
0:23.0	You can buy all the services you need.
0:25.0	But then you miss out on reciprocity.
0:27.0	That important part of human existence, which is, I need help.
0:31.0	Can you help me?
0:32.0	And the vulnerability and connection that is created by that.
0:37.0	Chuck Collins is co-editor at inequality.org
0:41.0	at the Institute for Policy Studies and Author of numerous books,
0:45.0	including Born on Third Base, The Wealth Hortars,
0:48.0	and Economic apartheid in America.
0:50.0	Altered to an erupting sun is his first novel.
0:57.0	Oh well, Chuck, thanks so much for joining us today.
1:01.0	I really want to get to the nitty gritty with you, so I'm excited.
1:05.0	Me too. Thanks for having me.
1:07.0	When I heard about your work, I had so many questions pop up right away
1:11.0	and I thought, oh, I really want to interview this person.
1:14.0	You've done such vital work exposing the contours of inequality in this country.
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