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What Don't Look Up is really about

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Oligarchy in America

Mark Rylance plays an industry titan who single handedly imperils the entire planet in pursuit of just a little more profit, only to fail and ensure our doom. He says there are two kind of hall marks to the oligarchy in america: they don't say "we're not going to solve problems" They always happen to be solving problems in a way that enriches them and empowers them. The thing that they can't tolerate is we're going to solve the asteroid problem more safely, but we's not going to get rich.

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