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Decoder with Nilay Patel

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Is There a Difference Between the Rockefellers and Carnegies?

The wealthiest people in the world are unaccountable. Most of them come from teck. They run companies that they run themselves, that don't have ae enormous impact on the population. I think it is a difference of kind to not degree, partly because if you look atd say, face book, that's a wealth creation engine which has a direct and discernible impact on what people see and therefore what they think. Ar, again, preniel, what interests me about faceBook is they are, in fact, purveyors of partisan information, but pretend not to be. And they're not willing to exercise the most basic kind of editorial judgment. So i think that...

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