Bhaskar Sunkara
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first heard Dec 2022
last heard Dec 2022
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He might be my number one.
We'll see.
Yeah, I'm willing to keep an open mind about the LeBron versus Jordan conversation.
But, you know...
He got that through his merit and he's been rewarded.
And a part he's getting rewarded because he's created vast amounts of wealth beyond what he's getting.
This is just his share.
You know, it's the salary cap league.
Whenever he's doing an endorsement, obviously that company is thinking that he's worth more than what they're paying him for that endorsement and so on.
And to the extent with Elon Musk, people see innovation and they see someone who is
will put himself out there with sometimes crazy ideas because he's trying to think about the future and trying to just push things forward instead of just sitting on whatever money he has now and just investing it, earning 6% return for the rest of his life.
I think that that's a positive thing.
But I think it doesn't get to the broader...
Policy question.
When people invoke billionaires, they're invoking the specter of inequality and power.
It's not normally the rhetoric that I use because I propose and I use more traditional socialist rhetoric and terms, but I think it gets at something real.
So often with these sorts of shorthands we use in politics, there are...
They're imperfect, but they speak to a real thing.
I'm fine with calling myself a Bernie bro.
Okay.
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