Podcast
Pivot
The book discusses the characteristics of billionaires who influence global economics and politics. It was mentioned in the context of how billionaires are impacting the world and the concentration of wealth.
The term was coined back in 2004 by the political scientist Samuel Huntington and he used it to refer to people who go to the World Economic Forum at Davos, but it quickly became this kind of catch-al...
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The book discusses the characteristics of billionaires who influence global economics and politics. It was mentioned in the context of how billionaires are impacting the world and the concentration of wealth.
The term was coined back in 2004 by the political scientist Samuel Huntington and he used it to refer to people who go to the World Economic Forum at Davos, but it quickly became this kind of catch-all for billionaires who write the rules for the rest of us whose finances are so complicated that they stretch across jurisdictions which limits their sense of identity by nation.
He's not content to just own everything and have his name on buildings. He wants us to actually laud him for saving us all.
CEOs are the heroes of the pandemic. Without us we wouldn't have vaccines, we wouldn't have loans, we wouldn't have rescue programs, we wouldn't have anything. Government didn't do the job. We saved you.
