Not on their own merit, no way! But with crypto in play, they could become billionaires via corrupt donations for favors from daddy.

What a despicable "administration".

Neither one has done an honest day's work in their lives. But Junior did have the meeting with the Russian intelligence individual in 2016, to promote his father's campaign.

who was first to call Jr. and Eric "Uday and Qusay," but I always thought that was quite fitting.

I hope he’s successful in all areas and I agree with nearly everything he has said. We don’t need billionaires.

We need equitable distribution of wealth.

That would not prevent them for being wealthy, and leading an opulent lifestyle. It would only require a change in the sequence of digits in their bank accounts, thus allowing the rest of society to have access to health care, housing, education, and a healthy diet.

my type of public servant. Two days ago, on another internet site, a retired railroad worker I know posted a mixture of anger and ignorance regarding what he claimed was Mamdani's plan for a social program aimed at unemployed young men. One old friend corrected him, noting it was a progressive jobs program. I pointed out that the plan was similar to FDR's CCC and WPA. Programs such as Job Corps are not perfect, of course, but they are good for the majority of the people they serve, which in turn benefits society.

“good for the majority of the people they serve, which in turn benefits society.”

Nothing is being done right now that benefits the majority. Just the opposite. GOP are actively working to hurt the majority.

...want a society that is just and serves everyone.

It is immoral to not believe that IMO.

And, they could not be billionaires without a lot of people of ordinary means doing the work for them.

The marginalized in society are marginalized because those with power choose for it to be that way. And that is not a new thing, but something that reaches far back in human history.

We have failed ourselves.

Inequality will never go away, nor should it. There should be reward for work and ingenuity. But not to the point where they can so easily exploit everyone else. It seems both sides in America have this strange, binary view on capitalism. One side wants to chuck it entirely, which is just as idiotic and no more based on human behavior than laissez faire capitalism. Strong, rational controls are what's needed, whether that be regulation, taxation or both.

Sweden produces more "unicorns", billion dollar tech companies, per capita than anywhere on earth. The Nordics are renowned for it. Sweden also has a lower corporate tax rate than the US, as do all the Nordics. But no American corporation actually pays the list price. The US rate is a political mirage. There's a mountain of tax loopholes that keep all US corporations from paying the stated rate. Not so much for most of our OEDC friends. Swedish corporate tax rev. is 41% of their GDP. While only 26% in the US.

Rational controls on our baser urges so everyone has a near equal say. Including the urge to take our government captive.

We need treatment programs for greed. We need laws that protect society from the their problems.

or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind" John Adams thought....

"We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people" "Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers and destroyers press upon them so fast that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachments is to, grow every day more encroaching; like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour."

But that kind of wealth translates into power, which corrupts. Billionaires purchase politicians and media, writing financial legislation for themselves and propaganda convincing voters to blame "others" for their misfortune.

And that kind of corruption runs through more than the hearts and minds of the billionaires themselves; it runs through the heart and soul of America like a cancerous boil that must be excised.

While our democracy lasts, we hold the lance and must use it effectively.

Being the result of political deals and compromises made in the 1930s and 40s, by the 70s it had gotten creaky and needed some updating. What it did NOT need, but what we unfortunately got, was dismantling. Shooting Money skyward--as much as possible, as fast as possible, as high as possible--was made the highest virtue in the land.

The New Deal didn't prevent money from going up to the top, but it did bottleneck the flow. There's an old rule of prioritization in business: Speed, cost, quality. Pick two, because getting those will cost you the third.

The New Deal framework, with support for workers, regulation, and those top-heavy tax rates (including the system of deductions to lower your effective rate) imposed a "pick two" rule on "as much as possible, as fast as possible, as high as possible". Postwar prosperity was widespread because wealth had a chance to circulate through the economy before going up the chimney.