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MrBeast: Capitalism & Philanthropy

Then & Now: Philosophy, History & Politics

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Introduction

MrBeast has built a channel with 90 million subscribers in doing so, earning around 54 million a year according to Forbes. Joe Rogan employs over 100 people and has been at the forefront of some of the biggest philanthropic campaigns on YouTube. What's interesting with prodigious figures like MrBeast is not how they manage to do what they do, but what they tell us about the culture that gave rise to them in the first place. We have to understand the roots of this much wider trend. It must be the most worrying trend of our time.

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