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the principle that those with means have the right to walk away from the obligations of citizenship, especially taxes and burdensome regulation. Retooling and rebranding the old ambitions and privileges of empires, they dream of splintering governments and carving up the world into hyper-capitalist, democracy-free havens under the sole control of the supremely wealthy, protected by private mercenaries, serviced by AI robots and financed by cryptocurrencies.
Naomi Klein.
The billionaires do not care about inflation, inflation is a gnat to them. Billionaires could care less about Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid. As a once famous comedian put it, "they are in a club, and we're not invited."
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It was not that logical. We just had a stupid president born with a silver
MadameButterfly
Yesterday
#40
Trump, and Bannon, Miller and others, sold their voters retribution against the "elite"
WSHazel
Tuesday
#30
That is an inaccurate characterization of pre-17th century England and Europe as a whole
WSHazel
Tuesday
#31
Exactly...to say nothing of the fact they will actually have to pay a lot of their wealth to the government of the
PortTack
Tuesday
#19
Too damn much money does that to a person. I can think of no deeper Hell than only having the super rich
Beowulf42
Tuesday
#20
This is from a Guardian opinion a few days ago titled The Rise of End Times Fascism
Ponietz
Tuesday
#24
The billionaires have decided I don't really need my pittance of a social security check
Walleye
Tuesday
#26