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🗓️ 1 September 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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0:00.0 | There's millions of different ways to write the rules of the market and you could write the rules so that instead of empowering just a handful of billionaires |
0:09.0 | of people at the top, they can actually be empowering the vast majority of people. |
0:14.0 | Hear that, Nick? They could write the rules to empower me, not just you. |
0:18.0 | I know, I know. From the offices of Civic Ventures in downtown Seattle, this is Pitch Fork Economics, |
0:30.0 | with Nick Hanauer. |
0:32.0 | One American capitalist take on how we got into this mess |
0:35.0 | and how we can get out. |
0:37.0 | I'm Nick Hanauer, founder of Civic Ventures. |
0:44.0 | I'm David Goldstein, Senior Fellow at Civic Ventures. |
0:51.0 | So Nick, what is the label that I use to describe you as my employer? |
0:57.0 | My plutocratic overlord. |
1:00.0 | No, my benevolent plutocratic overlord. |
1:03.7 | That's right, benevolent plutocratic overlord. |
1:07.3 | And you laugh at that, but you admit there's quite a bit of truth in that statement. |
1:14.1 | I am benevolent, I am a plutocrat, and I am your overlord. |
1:18.1 | You are, and this gets to the heart of the conversation |
1:21.0 | we're having today. Exactly. |
1:23.2 | With the political philosopher, Elizabeth Anderson, |
1:27.0 | you know, a year and a half ago, I read her book |
1:30.3 | and it just immediately jumped out at me. |
1:34.0 | Yes, yes, this is exactly the world that I see, |
1:37.1 | where she describes, in her words, |
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