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Post by the Scribe on Feb 11, 2022 9:39:22 GMT
"Davos Man": How Billionaires Devour the World & Fuel Global Inequality, Prolonging the Pandemic 99,508 viewsJan 21, 2022
Democracy Now! 967K subscribers
As many of the world's wealthiest people wrap up virtual talks today at the World Economic Forum based in Davos, Switzerland, Oxfam reports the incomes of 99% of the world's population dropped during the pandemic while the world's 10 richest men saw their wealth double. Meanwhile, vaccine profits have minted at least nine new billionaires at Moderna, BioNTech and China's CanSino, amassing a combined new wealth of over $19 billion. To discuss the rise of billionaires and the policies that got us here, we speak with New York Times global correspondent Peter Goodman, author of the new book "Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World." Goodman says billionaires' championing of "stakeholder capitalism" is ruining U.S. democracy, and attributes the Omicron variant to "our unwillingness to challenge patents."
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 11, 2022 22:48:13 GMT
How Davos Man Devours the World 17,582 viewsPremiered Jan 21, 2022
New Economic Thinking 155K subscribers
Peter Goodman, New York Times correspondent and author of the just-published book, Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World, talks to Rob about how inequality is not inevitable, but has been engineered through the political process by selling us a false idea of what is possible.
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