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I don't necessarily intrinsically have a dislike against billionaires per se. However had, if you look at the USA, where basically billionaires are dictating po
by shevy-java 4mo ago
I don't necessarily intrinsically have a dislike against
billionaires per se. However had, if you look at the USA,
where basically billionaires are dictating policies (Elon
mass-firing people at DOGE, showing a chainsaw and right-arm
gesture antics) - this simply undermines and cripples
democracy. This, in addition to it being unfair that they
aren't really contributing their due share to society usually;
and no, creating a legal foundation to avoid paying taxes,
including "Bill Gates Foundation" (see the benefits it has)
when you avoided paying taxes before, does not fix anything
at all. The model that is currently used, is broken by default.
The ancient greek did not have this problem. Modern democracy
does. And let's not even get into the issue of Putin-Trump
being suspiciously a corrupt tandem team, just as Yuri
predicted in the 1980s (!!!!!) already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9apDnRRSOCk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9apDnRRSOCk
(Flood the zone with shit is based on an older KGB strategy,
and the chinese had this under an even older stratagem name,
though not necessarily based on information-overload; I'd
call the KGB strategy primarily information-overload. The
chinese stratagems are named a bit differently, e. g.
holding the dagger under the cloak, or attack west while
convincing the enemy you would attack east; sun tsu also
built on the older chinese stratagems.)
- ipaddr 4mo agoBillionaire's always influenced policy. Rockefeller, Carnegie, Ford and Morgan were much more powerful than Egon, Bezos or Gates. In Ancient Greece you had a larger gap between rich and power. Landowners vs farmer. In the early 6th century BC, inequality was so extreme that poor farmers regularly sold themselves or their families into slavery just to pay off debts and survive. If we only learned more about history we might be more thankful for where we really are.