This episode of RIP Corp is about what happens when billionaires die—well, what happens and doesn’t happen to their money when they die, most importantly how that money isn’t meaningfully taxed, and how their successors can perpetuate the wealth-inequality machine for generations upon generations through labyrinthine legal structures. We’ll also hear from people intimately familiar with these systems who are trying to fight them.
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RIP Corp is written and hosted by Ingrid Burrington. Produced by Meghal Janardan and Mike Rugnetta. Associate producer, Taylor Behnke. Original music and sound design from Andrew Atkin and Michael Simonelli. Fact-checking from Matt Giles. Logo design by Beatriz Lozano and illustrations by Megan Mulholland. Executive produced by Jason Oberholtzer.