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🗓️ 28 December 2019
⏱️ 110 minutes
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While the majority of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck and one emergency away from financial peril, a new study shows that the 500 richest people in the world gained a combined $1.2 trillion in wealth in 2019. In the U.S., the richest 0.1% now control a bigger share of the pie than at any time since the beginning of the Great Depression.
But what happens when the very people hoarding this wealth at the expense of democracy, the environment and an equitable society, re-brand themselves as the people who will fix society's problems? What happens when the arsonists pose as the firefighters?
Anand Giridharadas has been studying these questions and he joins Michael Moore to name names and discuss what to do about it.
Rumble Reads:
Anand's book, "Winners Take All" is here:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/539747/winners-take-all-by-anand-giridharadas/9780451493248
Follow Anand here:
https://twitter.com/AnandWrites
The Jamie Dimon "60 Minutes" episode that Michael and Anand ridicule is here:
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/jamie-dimon-jp-morgan-chase-ceo-the-60-minutes-interview-2019-11-10/
The new survey about the wealthiest people in the world is here :
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0:00.0 | This is Rumble with Michael Moore and I'm Michael Moore. Thank you for joining me |
0:07.6 | today. Last night Donald Trump tweeted at me using the middle of one of his big |
0:13.5 | Twitter storms and decided to throw me in. Always a pleasure. I responded. I |
0:21.2 | won't take up your time with it here and you can go on Twitter or Facebook or |
0:24.7 | Instagram and check it out. I've got more important business here today because |
0:30.3 | I have on the show with me. One of my favorite people. Somebody who might met just |
0:37.7 | three days after Trump's election where both I'm morning Joe together and the |
0:42.8 | things that he said and what I've listened to him say sense and what he's written. |
0:47.8 | He had a book out this year called Winners Take All. A very powerful voice that I |
0:53.7 | want you to hear. Some of you I'm sure know him and if you don't I'm |
0:57.4 | going to please get to know him and be attention to him because he's saying |
1:01.2 | some very important things about about the thing I'm most concerned about |
1:05.5 | which is not just getting rid of Trump but getting rid of that which gave us |
1:11.5 | Trump. So if we don't do that then we'll just get the next Trump down the road |
1:17.0 | here and that's unacceptable. My guess today is a non-guarded |
1:53.2 | Okay so just some people know you who were for many years a foreign |
1:58.5 | correspondent and columnist for the New York Times you currently teach a |
2:03.6 | journalism at NYU. Correct? Yeah, I'm not teaching this this year but last year |
2:09.8 | and what are you doing this year? You know I published my third book last year |
2:17.4 | the fall of last year Winners Take All, the Elite Charade of Changing the World |
2:21.0 | and my plan was to go on a you know three-week book tour the way you normally |
2:25.7 | do and having done this twice before I sort of understood that that you |
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