Money has long made the world go round, but with the world’s richest man taking a seat next to Trump in the White House; tech, AI and social media companies seemingly growing exponentially richer and more powerful; and the world’s billionaires looking to different territories (Aotearoa New Zealand itself included) and into space for both power and natural resources, have we entered a whole new era of the world as a playground for the super-rich?

Renowned philosopher A. C. Grayling (Who Owns the Moon?), major US novelist whose books expertly dissect wealth and class Rumaan Alam (Entitlement) and political scientist Marcel Dirsus (How Tyrants Fall) join Toby Manhire to discuss how we got here and what might face us next.