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#411 - A Conversation with Vivek Ramaswamy

The Fifth Column

CHAPTER

The Rise of Stakeholder Capitalism in Politics

I wasn't a big anti-citizens United person though the influence of money in politics has always bothered me. That's actually what sent me on my journey against ESG, which is a separate discussion we can have. But it bothered me that we shouldn't settle our differences on climate change or racial justice with Larry Fink, the guy who controls the most dollars. In this case, other people's dollars settling that question because America was the place where we settled that through free speech and open debate in the public squarewhere everybody's voice and vote counts equally. Maybe that's just professional politics though. Yeah. There's no way to avoid the professionalization for lack of better word of politics

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