The Billionaire Age Pt 4 | How democracy can beat back the oligarchs
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The Billionaire Age Pt 4 | How democracy can beat back the oligarchs

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 1, 202654 min
  • Interview
  • Politics

Feeling despair over the threats to democracy coming out of The Billionaire Age? Let alone the predictions we'll see 10 trillionaires within three years. Well, there are concrete solutions. Relatively straightforward ones. Thinkers from Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman, to Dutch philosopher Ingrid Robyens to self-described oligarch and American venture capitalist Nick Hanauer say democracy can win over oligarchy. Listen to episodes in this five-part series, The Billionaire Age: Listen to Part One: How did we get here? Listen to Part Two: Disney heiress on the dangers of extreme...

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Do you think billionaires will soon or are too wealthy now to have their wealth curbed? No, I'm really confident, you know, sit down and optimistic about the power of the forces of democracy to prevail. Welcome to Ideas. I'm Nala Ayyed. Never before in the history of the world has so much wealth

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