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Downstream: Woke Capitalism Just Collapsed. Here’s Why w/ Brett Christophers

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Philosophy, News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump is the President-elect. Meta, Walmart and McDonald’s have forsaken previous diversity policies. Elon Musk has demanded that Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, be removed. Why is this all happening at the same time? And why do progressives have so little to offer when it comes to the economy and people’s material conditions? Brett […]

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0:00.0

You don't have to go far on YouTube to find critiques of capitalism.

0:11.0

Capitalism is crisis. Capitalism is doomed to fail. Maybe. But here on Navarra Media, we also like to offer a little bit more detail about the people,

0:21.4

ideas, organisations that you probably hear about on a daily or weekly basis.

0:26.5

One of them is BlackRock.

0:29.5

Like I say, you've probably heard of them before, but what do they do?

0:32.8

Why do they matter?

0:34.8

How come they're so politically influential? A Britain's Prime Minister

0:39.2

Kirstama recently appeared in a photo with the CEO of Black Rock that was posted on Twitter.

0:45.7

And Kirstama said that Britain's future prosperity depends on the likes of Black Rock.

0:52.7

But what precisely is their business after After all, they're in the financial

0:56.0

services industry, but they're not a bank. And why is the Prime Minister so obsequious to them?

1:02.2

Why is he bending the knee to a company you've probably heard of, but don't really fully

1:07.3

understand? Discuss all of that and more is today's guest.

1:13.5

It's a record-breaking third time to welcome him on downstream.

1:18.7

Brett Christopher's, thanks for joining us once again.

1:22.1

Thanks for having me. It's good to be back.

1:23.6

It's great to have you. I think you're the first guest we've had on three times.

1:26.9

Wow, I'm honoured. Yeah. Yeah. Hopefully it's worthwhile. We'll see. Well, you're first. It's great to have you. I think you're the first guest we've had on three times. Wow, I'm honoured. Yeah. Yeah. Hopefully it's worthwhile. We'll see. Well, you're first still, you know, of all the people we've interviewed and all the things we've talked about, the first interview we did with you, which was about asset management. Yep. And your brilliant book, Our Lives in their portfolio. Yep. Brilliant book. I think that's got something like 300,000 views by now.

1:48.0

I never expected that.

1:50.0

You know, I thought maybe if it gets 100,000 views and we're taking that to a really,

1:53.4

you know, a broader audience, then usually talks about asset managers.

1:57.2

Great.

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