Elections in "Democracies" are Bought: Thomas Ferguson Interview
How the elite-run economic and technological make up of society shapes elections. From an interview I did with Thomas Ferguson in 2009 (10 years ago!), but even more relevant today. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlYhXVG5O4I
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
by the standards of free marketeers, this totalitarian nightmare would be an anarchist society. NOTE: The last missing words are "dominated by a few firms"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrQObaYFmaw