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Pete Buttigieg: “Americans get a share of the enormous wealth that is being…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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… than we already have, which is what will happen if we don't intervene with good, smart policies to do something about that. I think that probably involves making sure that Americans get a share of the enormous wealth that is being created in and for these firms. And especially because they're making that wealth from data that we all put out into the world using infrastructure like the Internet that taxpayers invented in the first or, you know, taxpayer funded research invented in the first place. (18:20–18:27)

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Asserts that Americans should receive a share of wealth created by firms using public data and infrastructure.

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