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BAM!

Welcome to the show.

It's great to be here.

A few months ago, for many people,

your name did not exist in their minds at all in any way,

and now you are a superstar,

especially for many young people,

because of your views in and around texts

and the super wealthy around the world.

How did you come to this from what you do?

Because you're a historian.

Yeah, yeah.

In fact, you are a Dutch historian.

I'm a Dutch historian.

That's how everyone refers to the Dutch historian.

I think, you know, I'm really part of a much wider movement,

you know, a whole new generation

that thinks that we need to move on to new ideas.

And basically, that we realize that we need a massive transformation

of our economy, so.

And I was just in a place at the World Economic Forum,

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