On today's episode Brian Becker and Prof. Richard  Wolff discuss how Elon Musk became the new owner of Twitter. The  widely-hated billionaire immediately began to prepare layoffs,  reportedly starting with the mass firing of a quarter of all  employees at the company. Under the dictatorship of the rich, one of  the main ways that people in society communicate with each other can  become the private possession of a single ultra-wealthy capitalist.

Professor Richard Wolff is an author & co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work. You can find his work at rdwolff.com.

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