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240 - Christiaan Van Vuuren (Big Deal)

Like I'm A Six-Year-Old

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The Role of Money in Democracy

The more i get sucked into sort of socialist politics and a critique of capitalism, you kind of realize that this economic system is not conducive to democracy. Someone like clive palmer, if he can make an 80 million dollar donation to a politic party, has more dem more democratic rights and democratic sayin influence than an ordinary person. That's the whole deal. You cannot ignore the role of money in absolutely distorting the entire system, the entire political status quo, in favor of the super rich. But it doesn't even need to be otha that direct. There's a famous story of a guy who now runs the opera house at the harbour bridge walk. He went to council with

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