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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: Robert Reich’s Unjust Crusade against Billionaire Producers
Description: In this episode of New Ideal Live, Agustina Vergara Cid and Nikos Sotirakopoulos challenge Robert Reich’s unjust crusade against billionaires. Agustina and Nikos unpack the pernicious motivations behind the attacks against successful billionaire producers and give an impassioned moral defense of their right to the wealth they have created.
Among the topics covered:
How widespread the attacks on the rich are in Western society;
How the ‘wage-theft’ argument is based on a false, Marxist view of wealth;
How attacks on billionaires conflate economic with political power;
How wealth is a creation of the individual, not of exploitation or ‘society’;
The anti-p...