extreme wealth inequality in america he's the guy to talk to that's why i'm pleased to welcome from boston chuck construct welcome to the program thanks tom great to have you with us you are the great grandson if i have my facts right at an area the fortune of the nineteenth century meat packing mobile oscar meyer and you first caught some attention when you gave an inheritance of half a million dollars to several foundations at the age of twenty six what brought that about. well you know i actually grew up in detroit and so i grew up in a city that was very polarized by race and class and when i was seven there was the uprising in detroit the riots and i that kind of woke me up and i and i think that was a little seed that was planted that got me interested in then just over time i began to sort of see those great inequalities how they affected people i became friends with people all across the class and race spectrum and that really influenced me so by the time i was in my early twenty's i decided to pass the inheritance along that i've gotten and work for a living and. i haven't really looked

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