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Aug 2017
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#024 Inequality Is Killing Us All. Are W...

Russell Brand
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Author and anthropologist Jason Hickel joins me to explain how a handful of rich countries have been able to control economic policies in the rest of the world; why we’re being lied to about poverty; and the radical revolution required to stop the global inequality machine. 

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