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Specifically "rich countries with a contingent of multibillionaire ideologues actively working to destroy public infrastructure". https://www.nytimes.com/2018/

• kevin_b_er 8y ago
  Greed and selfishness based politics are the enemy of public transit. They stand against anything that is for the good of society unless it directly provides them profit.
• jamesblonde 8y ago
  In contrast, the richest family in Sweden (Wallenberg) just contributed 100m Euro to a research programme on AI - http://wasp-sweden.org/ http://wasp-sweden.org/ Proper Noblesse oblige. The Koch family are evil, in contrast.
  • GW150914 8y ago
    From all available evidence there is no need to add the qualifier “by contrast” to that statement. The problem is that it seems about half of the American electorate support the Koch’s and others like them for ideological reasons. As a non-American it’s a really strange thing to see. Dirt poor families from generations of bad education and dirt poor seem to think distant billionaires have their best interests at heart. They all seem to think they’re about to join the ranks of those billionaires any day now, and they’d hate the idea of hurting their prospects. It’s so weird...