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Bernie Sanders: “We have more income and wealth inequality than we have ever…”

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

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Published February 23, 2026 | Video Starts at 11:14

That is the debate that we have got to undertake. In my view, and as I think all of you know, at a time in American history when We have more income and wealth inequality than we have ever had. the AI revolution is being pushed by the very, very wealthiest people in our country, including folks like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel and others. (11:14–11:19)

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Asserts that the current level of income and wealth inequality in the U.S. is at an all-time high.

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“This year, four AI companies are spending $670 billion to build out data centers.”
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“As a percentage of GDP, that is 10 times greater than what we spent each year on the moon landing.”
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“60% of our people [are] living paycheck to paycheck in the wealthiest country in the history of the world.”
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“Jeff Bezos plans to replace at least 600,000 workers at Amazon with robots.”
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“AI could replace 47% of truck drivers, 64% of accountants, and 89% of fast food workers.”
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“AI, automation and robotics could replace nearly 100 million jobs in America over the next decade.”
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“There has already been a 16% relative decline in employment for younger workers in jobs exposed to AI.”
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“The Defense Department is the only major government agency that has never successfully undergone an independent audit.”
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“We got 800,000 people [who] are homeless.”
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“We are living in so many ways in an extremely stressful moment and in many ways the most dangerous moment in the modern history of this…”
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“We are at the beginning of the most profound technological revolution in world history.”
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“These changes [artificial intelligence and robotics] will impact our economy. They will threaten our democratic institutions.”
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“AI and robotics are creating the most sweeping technological revolution in the history of humanity.”
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“According to Demas Hassabis, the head of Google's DeepMind, the AI revolution will be 10 times bigger than the industrial revolution and 10…”
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“The AI revolution is being pushed by the very, very wealthiest people in our country, including folks like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Larry…”
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“The richest people in this country are investing in AI and robotics because those investments will increase their wealth and power…”
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“AI and robotics being developed by these multi billionaires today will allow corporate America to wipe out tens of millions of good paying…”
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“Elon Musk, who has invested hundreds of billions in AI and robotics, recently said that, quote, AI and robots will replace all jobs.”
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“Bill Gates, multibillionaire, founder of Microsoft, who has also made huge investments in these technologies, predicted that humans, quote…”
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“The Congress and the American people are very unprepared for the tsunami [of technological change] that is coming.”
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“We need a moratorium on the growth of data centers in this country.”
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“There is a fear in some parts of the industry that it is possible that within a few years AI will become smarter than human beings and that…”
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“Despite those fears, you're having these companies going ahead very, very rapidly, discarding a lot of the concerns that safety experts…”
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“There is technology right now out there where you will have people, you will have a phone call coming to somebody in this district, and that…”
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“Did you know right now there are things many of you are aware of, deep fakes, where there are people look like me and others I been a victim…”
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“Congress has been in no way prepared to address that issue as well.”
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“I was proud to have introduced an amendment which ended up getting the support of all the Democrats and a couple of Republicans, which…”
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“What Trump is doing on immigration is part of a bigger picture and a movement toward authoritarianism.”
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“In my state, we have undocumented people who are keeping our dairy farmers alive.”
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“You have undocumented people during COVID who do you think was working in meatpacking plants, at nursing homes, at child care centers? Who…”
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“We need something that has long been not dealt with by Congress and that has comprehensive immigration reform and a path towards…”
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“The people in America do not want a handful of billionaires to control our economy.”
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“They do not want Trump and his friends to move us through an authoritarian society.”
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“That's why 7 million people came out at a no Kings rally.”
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“Data centers create a good number of construction jobs.”
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“Once the data centers are up, the number of jobs are fairly minimal.”
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“Some companies actually want subsidies from the local community to come in.”
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“There are in many instances increase in electric rates, pressure on water systems, et cetera.”
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“Trump won West Virginia by about 70%, Mingo county by 74%.”
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“Most working class people are not racists, they're not sexists, they're not homophobes.”
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“Most working people are desperate.”
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“The Democratic Party virtually does not exist [in West Virginia].”
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“Make sure that we stop, we have a moratorium on data centers in general.”
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“We are not going to grow the middle class unless we have a strong labor movement.”
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“You are living in the wealthiest country in the history of the world.”
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“There is no excuse why every American does not have health care as a human right.”
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“There is no reason why, at the least, public colleges and universities are not tuition-free.”
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“It is insane that many of you are going to be leaving this school deeply in debt.”
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“We are spending now what is about a trillion dollars a year on defense.”
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“There are some geniuses now want to increase [the defense budget] by 50%.”
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“We can maintain a strong defense and significantly cut military spending.”
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“Privacy is, in fact, a human right.”
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“In most European countries, all people [have] healthcare as a human right.”
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“In most European countries, it doesn't cost $80,000 a year to go to college.”
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