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Billionaire Power: An American Obscenity

The Socialist Program with Brian Becker

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Wealth Inequality and the Role of Billionaires

This chapter explores the immense wealth gap between billionaires and the working class, critiquing the societal glorification of billionaires and their disproportionate accumulation of wealth through mechanisms like patents and the stock market. It emphasizes the detrimental impact of extreme wealth inequality on society and questions the necessity of allowing such wealth accumulation.

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