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I have the feeling that we might be in our current predicament because a few billionaires are reading the same books, and trying to bring about some ideological

• robertlagrant 4y ago
  Blaming billionaires is like like any sport: fun, but nothing to do with real life.
  • dukeofdoom 4y ago
    Politicians are there to provide cover so you don't blame the billionaires directly. But you would be surprised how much Politicians bend over backwards to protect them when it matters. Putin went after some US connected oligarchs to clean up corruption in his country. US policy towards Russian literally changed overnight and US imposed sanctions, and we have everything that followed. In Michigan a billionaire started building a bridge on public park land. Judge sent him to prison for contempt. Michigan legislature had an emergency midnight session to get him out.
    • robertlagrant 4y ago
      A quick Google shows you're cherry-picking: - Bernie Madoff was worth $20bn and is in jail for 150 years - Eike Batista was worth $30bn but was jailed for bribery - Alfred Taubman was fined $7m and jailed for a year - The Kwok brothers were worth $16bn but were jailed and fined for bribery Etc etc. There's no point forming a worldview based on cherry picking. Nothing is simple. Politicians, billionares, or any other line you care to draw around people to define a group, are not homogenous. Some will be individually moral and upright, or guilt-ridden but greedy, or pyschopathic and power-hungry.