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#349 – Bhaskar Sunkara: The Case for Socialism

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The B-Word the Billionaires

There's a lot of derision towards the b-word the billionaires. Does it bother you or do you think that's in part justified? You know using the word billionaire as a dirty word i think is perfectly justified and that it's a populist shorthand rightUm so obviously when i talk about inequality i often talk about power dynamics right between workers and bosses and and so on uh billionaires just the 99 1% version of it is just a populist shorthand to explain the fact that there's people who have accumulated obscene wealth.

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