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I think the “us vs them” mentality is too strong here. Don’t you think these billionaires are just as against each other (if not more so) than against the commo
by p10_user 9y ago
I think the “us vs them” mentality is too strong here. Don’t you think these billionaires are just as against each other (if not more so) than against the common man?
- majewsky 9y agoIf that is so, why are cartels a thing?
- xapata 9y agoI don't think they'd need to intentionally cooperate. In fact, one of the worst motivations could be competitive status-seeking. A few billionaires trying to go to space is good. What if 10 of them do it? Read about Fordlandia. It's hard to measure the economic impact of Ford's obsessions on Detroit. > us vs them I'm not sure where you got that sense. Capitalist societies tend to create log-normal distributions of wealth. There's no threshold where you can say one person is "us" and the next on the curve is "them".
- losteric 9y agoNot at all - other billionaires are opponents, not enemies... they work together to continue extracting wealth from the common person.