Bill gates sr. And i know you and everyone at the foundation is feeling that loss. He was a tremendous man who i think many of us in philanthropy had a chance to get to know in various ways but not as much as you probably did. I think we feel his loss greatly. Let me just express that loss to you. Thank you so much. He was a remarkable human being and a remarkable humanitarian. Thank you. Indeed. So we are here at this unprecedented moment, and that word gets overused but it is kind hard to imagine that we could have as many crises facing us all now. We have got obviously the health crisis. Er with got the economic crisis. We are going through a reckoning on social justice. Many of us are experiencing the wildfires and other signs of Climate Change that are striking the country. And thats only the tip of the iceberg. Your foundations care about some of these issues and working deeply on them and of course education is why we are here and it is central to what you all do. How do you wei
The richest countries and we live in a post scarcity world where we throw out 40 percent of all the food how was it possible you have 40 percent goes in the trash you thought it was just your aunts casserole but no its millions of tons of food a lot of it never even gets to your plate its thrown out by the manufacturers because it doesnt shall or the meaningless expiration dates have gone by or the veggies are too ugly thats right we throw out time use of. Ugly bags its nice out ok ugly babies are going to understand what it is theres nothing wrong with an ugly baldness potato just ask ted cruzs face. So how did we get here how do we have people going hungry while we throw out 40 percent of all the food and some people are raking in billions of dollars its because our Economic System meaning capitalism is garbage no literally 40 percent of it is literal garbage just like its a select few sociopaths at the top pushing this horrible system its also a select few corporations that are the
It possible that 40 percent goes in the trash you thought it was just your aunts casserole but no its millions of tons of food a lot of it never even gets to your plate its thrown out by the manufacturers because it doesnt shall or the meaningless expiration dates have gone by or the veggies are too ugly thats right we throw out time use of. Ugly bags yes i said ok im good babies are going to understand what it is theres nothing wrong with an ugly baldness potato just ask ted cruzs face. So how did we get here how do we have people going hungry while we throw out 40 percent of all the food and some people are raking in billions of dollars its because our Economic System meaning capitalism is garbage you know literally 40 percent of it is literal garbage just like its a select few sociopaths at the top pushing this horrible system its also a select few corporations that are the worst the initiative of policy studies says driving this exploding inequality are 12 Companies Whose profits a
Working these low wage jobs. These jobs that are for multinational multimillion dollar companies. And these Companies Continue to make money, however, their employees are just barely getting by. And these are folks who have families. You know, these arent teens, these are young adults. For the most part, the individuals who work at walmart, who work a lot of places you just described, or people who are either middle aged or people who already have, you know, kids at home, many of which are teens, some of which are younger. And this is how they get, but yeah, and its, and its in warren gunnels, actually, staff director and policy advisor for so there sanders agrees with you, especially when you tweeted the real looting in america is in the Walton Family becoming 63000000000. 00 richer during the pandemic. While paying wages so low, the get this number 1514541 of their workers and im states need food stamps all subsidized by u. S. Taxpayers. Yes, the Walton Family is the real well for qu
He either has to reverse these things or he keeps up. Thats a wrap up of the days top headlines for now, but you can always head to our web site, r. T. Dot com for the details on all those stories. And many more. Join me every thursday on the alex simon show. And ill be speaking to guests of the world of politics. Sports business, im show business. Ill see you then. Greetings and salutation is the definition of the American Dream. By james, true slow, adams in 193131 was quite simply that quote, life should be better and richer for and fuller for everyone. With opportunity for each according to ability or achievement, regardless of social class or circumstances of birth. Now that is a sales pitch and its a beautiful dream. But as the late great, George Carlin observed the reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it. Yes. Tragically the promise of a richer, fuller life regardless of social class or circumstances, is just not the actual reality.