The World According to Matt
Added 2018-12-21 23:45:08 +0000 UTCIn this rare solo episode, Matt outlines his whole vision of what's the chief problem with capitalism and how best to tackle it. He starts with a discussion of capital's share and wealth ownership and then turns towards his neo-Hilferdingist vision of exploiting finance capital to socialize the means of production.
It's truly wonderful listening.
Comments
I have so many comments and questions that you would just want me to go away, but I enjoyed every minute. I think about these topics every day. The stat on CEO pay vs capital ownership was a mind blower. The SWF is a great concept (everyone has a 401k). Loved it. Love Liz's stuff too. I'm becoming a serious Bruehead.
2018-12-28 23:50:17 +0000 UTCThis is probably in the paper, but does this presume that monopolization *isn’t* a problem? In past pods Matt’s seemed to suggest half-jokingly that we should let amazon become a horizontal monopoly so we can easily nationalize it. (Why would the SWF want to own losers, and wouldn’t SWF governance want to force even *more* mergers, so an entire sector becomes a sort of monopoly?)
Peter G
2018-12-28 07:04:36 +0000 UTC
