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🗓️ 20 February 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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0:00.0 | Senator Sanders, thank you so much for joining us. |
0:07.0 | My pleasure. |
0:11.0 | So your book is called, It's OK to be angry about capitalism. |
0:14.5 | And for me the question is, well, how angry? |
0:16.8 | Is it blowing up an oil pipeline angry or voting for a slightly better candidate angry? |
0:21.6 | It's very, very angry because the future of |
0:24.2 | democracy is a state, the future of the planet is at stake, the future of the |
0:29.2 | ability of working people to have a decent life is at stake, but we got to be smart. We got to figure out how can |
0:37.1 | we be effective in taking on people with enormous power. So the book focuses a lot on oligarchs. |
0:44.0 | All right, what does that mean? |
0:46.0 | It means that in the world today, the top 1% owns more wealth |
0:50.0 | on the bottom, 99%. |
0:52.0 | In my country, which is country on earth, the United States, |
0:55.0 | three people own more wealth than the bottom half of American society. |
0:59.0 | But their power is not just money, it's how they use money. They own much of the media. In terms of |
1:08.1 | American politics, if you are a billionaire, you can now spend as much money as you want, hundreds of millions of |
1:15.0 | dollars, to defeat Bernie Sanders to support some right-wing |
1:18.1 | candidate. So what you're seeing now is democracy, in quotes, being owned by big money you're seeing more concentration |
1:26.1 | of ownership many of the large companies you have here we have in the United States |
1:29.7 | they're all over the world controlled by a very few people. |
1:33.2 | And then with artificial intelligence coming, |
1:35.3 | and robotics coming, what do we do about that? |
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