These billionaires like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk and all of these folks that have been supercharging the corruption of this administration, dismantling the very foundations of democracy, have proven that You cannot have extreme levels of income inequality and a functioning, thriving democracy at once. we have to choose. And the good news in that is that making the lives of working class Americans better means that our democracy gets stronger. (23:37–23:46)
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Asserts that extreme income inequality is incompatible with a thriving democracy.
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