The Billionaire Age Pt 4 | How democracy can beat back the oligarchs
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Jesse Eisenberg says community theater saved his life. Without it, we might not know him as Mark Zuckerberg and the social network. We might not have the zombie land as we know it now. But even Jesse Eisenberg knows that a lot of people just don't get musical theater. Musical theater is inherently very silly. Ridiculously earnest about it. starring Julianne Moore as a shy housewife turned actor, and Paul Giamatti as a theater director who pushes her to her limits. and beyond. Hear that conversation now on Q with me, Tom Power. This is a CBC Podcast.
Do you think billionaires will soon or are too wealthy now to have their wealth curbed? No. I'm I'm I'm really confident, you know, deep down and optimistic about that. the power of the forces of of democracy to prevail. Welcome to Ideas, I'm Nala Ayad.
Never before in the history of the world has so much wealth and power been in the hands of so few at the top. Billionaires are often worth more than the GDPs of entire countries. In fact, the net worth of the world's first trillionaire. Elon Musk surpasses the GDPs of about a hundred and seventy countries.
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