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Bernie Sanders: “The people who own [technology] and the corporations who…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Joe Rogan and Bernie Sanders Discuss Economic Inequality, Automation, and Political Corruption

Published | Video Starts at 49:38

I agree with everything you're saying, except there is something else that's going on in this. While all this is going on, while all this technology is throwing people out on the street, something else is happening. The people who own [technology] and the corporations who utilize the technology are becoming phenomenally richer. Exactly. And that is the issue which gets back to things like tax reform, like making sure that in America we do not have the massive levels of income and wealth inequality that we currently have. (49:38–1:32:58)

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