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A Brief History of Plutocracy

author Robin Upton
abstract This whistlestop re-telling of world economic history squeezes 12,000 years of history into 18 slides. Its focus is the changing nature of money and the rise of the monied class in US and Europe.

It outlines how the modern system of banking was instituted, how international organising allowed the power of the rich to gradually eclipse that of national governments, how war was managed for profit, and how the super-rich set about using the organs of the state in an effort to secure their position of control.
recorded_at 28th Chaos Communication Congress (28C3) by the Chaos Computer Club
presented_at 28th Chaos Communication Congress (28C3) by the Chaos Computer Club
available_at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdYqDV6_BP8
language en
license CC-by-nc-sa
publication_type video
pub_date 28.12.2011
media_type video
editor CCC
publisher CCC