The Grotesque Fruits Of Your Labor (With Evan Osnos)
A behind-the-scenes look at what billionaires are buying with the money you made for them.
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Show Notes
As American workers are fighting for their basic needs, the country’s richest are getting richer — while inventing perverse new ways to spend and hoard their money. Today on Lever Time, David Sirota sits down with “greed beat” journalist Evan Osnos, who explains why ultrarich oligarchs are running away from the rest of us on luxurious gigayachts, decadent doomsday bunkers, and ill-advised spaceships.
Get Evan’s book, The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich, here.
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