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Of Tech Moguls and Gold Miners: A Capitalist History

Notes from America with Kai Wright

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The Rise of Labor in California

From the very beginning of the Anglo-American period, you have people coming from all over the world to California. It's not just white guys from the East Coast to the United States who come to California for the gold rush. And so in that cauldron, the pioneers establish the white state as a sort of cartel of minors where they're able to exclude non-white minors and non-American minors from the best minds and the best territories.

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