A 25min interview I did at UMass in 2009 w Thomas Ferguson, the outmost US scholar on the role of money in elections. With some added B-roll footage and a few comments by Noam Chomsky. Relevant to understand this year's elections.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZf_iicONVQ
1st FALSEHOOD
“If you have 10k ppl, 100 of them have half the money...The square root of the number of people under consideration have half the wealth... this works everywhere”
2nd FALSEHOOD
“Wealth accumulates in the hands of fewer and fewer people...This is a feature of every system of production we know of”
Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Twenty-First-Century-Thomas-Piketty/dp/0674979850
Ernest Becker's Escape from Evil https://archive.org/details/EscapeFromEvilErnestBecker
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JbMDB5-aGY
In other words, don't reject common funds, but try to develop the sense of community of a participatory society by compelling the government, as much as possible, to do what the public wants.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blm_mb7ADWQ