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If there's a list of elite billionaires you'd like bashed on in a piece like this, why limit it to arbitrarily to Murdoch and Koch? Respectfully, your political
by joenot443 5y ago
If there's a list of elite billionaires you'd like bashed on in a piece like this, why limit it to arbitrarily to Murdoch and Koch? Respectfully, your political biases are coming through just as much as the author of this article's.
- MagnumOpus 5y agoThe media and communication spending efforts of these two families were instrumental in electing specific individuals that directly enabled the shifting of GDP accrual from labour away to capital. (In particular getting people elected who reduce corporate tax/capital gains tax/upper-decile income tax, limit unions, limit minimum wages and individual social protection.) Yes, lots of other billionaires are individually union-busting, underpaying, colluding against workers in their companies - but the ones above suborn legislation in multiple countries to do it for them.
- pfkurtz 5y agoRupert Murdoch owns the centerpiece of the right wing media empire and has used it relentlessly to radicalize right wing people and undermine democracy. Charles Koch is one of the great oil magnates and uses his immense wealth to fund, among other evil things, the climate denial movement in politics and the media, especially in the United States. It's not just these two men, obviously. But they are the real leading figures in the destruction of our society. George Soros isn't even close. Musk and Bezos might be a net positive; I'd at least consider the argument. This isn't just hating the rich. One side is evil and bent on the destruction of our species.