Profiteers vs. the People

Mar 04 2025 50 ep. 45 mins 32

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On Profiteers vs. the People, we perform an honest critique of prominent profiteers from both history and the present day. We contrast the public personas of these figures with their actions, and attempt to determine their net impact on society as a whole. While we take our research seriously, we hope to deliver our findings with an air of levity, so our listeners can laugh with us, and hopefully learn something along the way.

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Join us for the final episode of our series on Peter Thiel. This one is going to be focused on Palantir and we'll touch on the world Thiel and his cronies are trying to build. We also introduce a segment that RadBill is very excited about, called "How Do Dat Doodad Do Dat". We hope you like it. Please like, comment and subscribe!Here are our sources:https://docs.googl

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Hey Gang! Here's another one on Mckinsey & Co! $Mic is taking a breather, but we hope the material here makes for good listening anyways! Insurance is way worse now and this goes a good distance to explain why. Here are our sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EQgT0EGNgoFClgYiLyOMPhUCjT-W75rLXFiWaCVad8s/edit?usp=sharing Here is our subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/

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