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Pete Buttigieg: “We're already at a level of concentration of wealth and…”

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

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But I think it's clear that it's big, it's clear that it's fast, it's coming, it's accelerating. And my big worry is that if We're already at a level of concentration of wealth and power that no republic has ever survived. is this going to be a development that just makes wealth and power even more concentrated in even fewer hands? I don't think it has to be. (59:19–59:25)

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Asserts that the current concentration of wealth and power is unprecedented for a republic.

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