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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 373: The Controligarchs
Description: The boys drink and review Brooklyn Brewery's Winter IPA, then discuss the rich men (north of Richmond) who want to tell us how to live and control every aspect of our lives.
Seamus Bruner recently wrote a book called Controligarchs about how the super-rich want to tell all the rest of us how to live.
Bruner singles out five on his book cover: Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, and George Soros. Noticeably absent is Elon Musk, who seems to be supporting personal freedom rather than top-down...