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Jacobin Radio: Robert Brenner on Coronavirus

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What's Happened to the Wealth of the Poor?

Mark Zuckerberg made $25 billion in this period. Jeff Bezos now, I think, about $35 billion richer over those six weeks at Amazon. But again, what's lurking very little beneath the surface is that this money went to these people with no conditions. There was no need for and no reason for under these horrific conditions for more employment to take place or more investment to take placeor God forbid any kind of social programs to be paid for.

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