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What planet are you from? This guy's mega-rich clients are mostly from "financial services, real estate and government contracting". All of those things are ei
by Duff 15y ago
What planet are you from? This guy's mega-rich clients are mostly from "financial services, real estate and government contracting".
All of those things are either indirectly or directly subsidized by the US taxpayer. So the public is borrowing money and these folks are capitalizing it. And the Republicans claim to not be in favor of redistribution of wealth!
The bizarre thing is that if you looked at an analysis like this 25, 50, 100, 150 years ago, the picture would be different. The robber barons of the past built things, employed people. Investment bankers lobby for regulation to drum up business, and gouge people for their services, whatever they are.
- nazgulnarsil 15y agoThings aren't great. I'm not saying that. I'm not an apologist for the pretend free-market. I'm just saying this isn't the doom and gloom the original author or the vast majority of readers will probably think. WHat do you think 99% of human history looks like anyway? It looks like a boot stomping on a human face. Decrying the winners of the financial game, rigged though it is, as villains is just laughable compared to anything except rich white people problems.