The opportunity cost of billionaires - Richard Wolff

The opportunity cost of billionaires - Richard Wolff

"Here's how opportunity cost works. You ask the question, what is the cost to us of having money not used for something?... This is enormous wealth that could be doing fantastic improvements to our society. But we don't get them, because we allow billionaires." - Richard D. Wolff

This is a clip from Economic Update: [S11 E27] Capitalism's Shrinking Popularity
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