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Stephen Fry: Suffering, Capitalism & What it Means to be Human

Into the Magic Shop

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The Problem With Capitalism

I think most people, whatever the sort of alignment in politics might be considered to be left or right, they understand that there is an enormous problem with capitalism at the moment. And if nothing else, it's structures that move towards globalization that are inexorable in a transnational corporations have exposed rather like a drought exposing the bones and the hidden bodies in a lake. The entire world of trade is so contingent and so fragile that we're suffering enormously. It's always interesting to look at Davos because you have a subset of people who decide that it's their right to make decisions about how the economy flows.

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