Capitalism Contradicts Democracy - Richard Wolff

Описание: "Capitalism, by concentrating wealth in the hands of a small number of people, contradicts democracy... [The rich] figured out that the only way to be secure in their wealth, given universal suffrage, and the risk that the mass of employees will use it to their advantage, the rich understood they have to prevent that. A tiny group of people, the rich, use their money to have an outsized impact on our politics. That's not democracy. Democracy has the idea 'one person, one vote,' that we all have an equal say on the decisions that affect us. We don't. You who go into a voting booth and move the lever and vote for someone, that's a very different level of influence compared to Rockefeller, or Bezos... The biggest assault on our democracy is the economic system we do not question enough and that we don't change." - Richard Wolff

This is a clip from Economic Update: Capitalism vs. Democracy
[S11 E18]
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