John Prideaux
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 19 Jun
John Prideaux’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Intelligence from The Economist · Tocqueville Road Trip: 1. Game of chance · 13 Jun 2026
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Most recently, Red Apple has been moving into media.
We're speaking in the offices of WABC Talk Radio, which John acquired in twenty nineteen.
He's now reportedly worth a little under five billion dollars, making him one of the four hundred richest people in America.
His rise and rise makes me think of another famous quote from Democracy in America.
John has been playing the game of chance since he arrived here on the boat from Greece.
Each movement has seemed to be progress.
And he has no plans to slow down.
He's constantly checking his phone.
Viewed through one lens, and this all looks very Tokvillian.
The quality of conditions at its finest.
But, as with Barbara, there are also things about this story that my travelling companion would find concerning.
When Togville was here, there were just a handful of ultra wealthy Americans, most of them holdovers from the colonial era.
He didn't see this small group of people as a threat to the fabric of the country, but
But he warned that future generations should keep a close eye on America's industrialists, because if a new kind of aristocracy was going to rise from anywhere,
It would be from here.
When Forbes started publishing its four hundred richest Americans list in nineteen eighty two, there were thirteen billionaires in the country.
and the total wealth of all the people on the list was two hundred and sixty billion in today's dollars.
Today, every single person on the list is a billionaire.
And their collective wealth is $6.6 trillion.
That's about a fifth of America's entire GDP.
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