Listen to this. About 19 billionaires have three. $3.4 trillion, the equivalent of 12.5% of all the goods and services that are produced in the United States. This [wealth concentration] is nearly three times more than the wealthiest Americans were worth relative to the size of the economy in the Gilded Age. Three times as much wealth concentration today. Extreme wealth often forms an unholy alliance with power to strip us of equal voice and to have two tiers of justice. (27:20–29:30)
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Asserts that current wealth concentration is three times that of the Gilded Age.
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