Brian and Prof. Wolff discuss how intellectual property rights are used by capitalists to stifle innovation and hold back progress while protecting  their profits. They focus especially on how this phenomenon is playing out when it comes to the Coronavirus vaccines.

Richard Wolff is the co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work and the author of many books, the latest being “The Sickness is the  System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself”. You can check out his work at rdwolff.com.