How Elon Musk & Mark Zuckerberg are Using Their Wealth to F*** Over Americans
Channel: The Humanist Report
Date: 07/02/2024

We’ve already reached the point in late stage capitalism where multinational corporations are more powerful than government agencies tasked with regulating them, but corporations may soon be able to literally dismantle those agencies altogether. Powerful billionaires like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are trying to dismantle the NLRB and FTC, respectively. We’ll discuss the implications of this if they’re able to succeed.

Read More Here:
Vice Motherboard (Feb. 1, 2024) - “U.S. Corporations Are Openly Trying to Destroy Core Public Institutions. We Should All Be Worried.”: https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bnyb/meta-spacex-lawsuits-declaring-ftc-nlrb-unconstitutional#:~:text=All%20Be%20Worried.-,U.S.%20Corporations%20Are%20Openly%20Trying%20to%20Destroy%20Core%20Public%20Institutions,FTC—are%20%22unconstitutional.%22

Other Sources Briefly Mentioned:
Jacobin (Feb. 1, 2024) - “Trader Joe’s Rejects the New Deal”: https://jacobin.com/2024/02/trader-joes-nlrb-new-deal
The Daily Mail (Feb. 4, 2024) - “Elon Musk was told to go to REHAB….”: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13044137/Elon-Musk-rehab-concerned-friends.html

Chapters:
0:00 The Idiocy of Elon Musk
1:52 Dismantling Institutions
5:15 A New Dystopian Era
8:15 Why Billionaires Should Not Exist

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