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Conversation with Rutger Bregman — Human Nature, Power Dynamics, and UBI

The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

CHAPTER

The Myth of Taxation in the United States

We are part of that 1% or maybe even less than 1% who live now and have access to luxuries, such as refrigerators. I mean, we've really won the lottery of life in many ways. We could have been a hunter gathering to Stone Age. It's estimated that around 117 people have lived in the history of humanity. At the end of World War II in the United States, the top income tax rate was 92%. Now it's 37 for current income in the US.

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