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Jun 2023
47m 46s

Are Rich People Bad?

Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy
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Jonathan has some hangups about class. In the first episode of this series, he takes us from a nightclub outside LA to the halls of a fancy Manhattan prep school, and asks sociologist Rachel Sherman 'are rich people bad?'

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