NYT’s Peter Goodman on “How the Billionaires Devoured the World”

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🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In his new book "Davos Man," New York Times Global Economics Correspondent Peter S. Goodman exposes the role of elite billionaires in deepening global inequality, often while burnishing a do-gooder image. Goodman joins us to talk about how gatherings like the annual World Economic Forum in Davos help the mega-rich divert attention from their efforts to dodge taxes and fight regulation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.0	Well, they took it.
0:55.5	All the money I mean, and by they, I mean billionaires. How they did it and how they justify it. That's the subject of a new book, Davos Man, how the billionaires devoured the world
1:00.6	by the chief economics correspondent of the New York Times, Peter S. Goodman. He'll join us to tell
1:05.6	the stories of Mark Benioff, Jeff Bezos, and other extremely rich people who very much want the rest of us to believe that they have done well by doing good and that their open and legal tax avoidance schemes have not fleece the middle class and hollowed out the government, even maybe especially, during a pandemic.
1:21.5	What was the old 90s leftist saying again? No war but class war. That's all next.
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