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Ro Khanna: “Today's founders are not creating libraries and…”

Featuring: Ro Khanna, Democratic | U.S. House California, 17th Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 21:41

And you look at his plaque that was in the sort of Rockefeller center and he talks about how he's just a custodian of the money and he really will be judged by his public impact. And you don't have Today's founders are not creating libraries and universities. I mean, they're trying for their own immortality, they're trying to get to Mars. There's not a sense that they need to care about what happens in Lordstown, Ohio. (21:41–21:48)

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Asserts that modern tech founders are not investing in public institutions like libraries and universities.

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