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The rich are getting too openly greedy and complacent again, they're slowly forgetting about history, can't wait to see how it pans out in the next decades. ht
by toasty228 5mo ago
The rich are getting too openly greedy and complacent again, they're slowly forgetting about history, can't wait to see how it pans out in the next decades.
https://www.prosperosisle.org/spip.php?article1196 https://www.prosperosisle.org/spip.php?article1196
- renegade-otter 5mo agoWhich is ironic because Rae Kushner - his grandmother - is a legend. She has gone through some things. Now her grandson is wrecking Europe. https://www.npr.org/2018/05/04/560224531/trump-stories-kushner https://www.npr.org/2018/05/04/560224531/trump-stories-kushn...
- lifestyleguru 5mo agoPresent America is real estate developers all the way down.
- drstewart 5mo agoWait till you see the housing market in other Anglo countries.
- lifestyleguru 5mo agoMaybe it's not cheap but also not very available, quality is rather poor, you can rent it short term without any tenant rights?
- Ccecil 5mo agoReal estate, Crypto and AI make up the 3 legged stool of US investment (from my perspective). In my area which is over 1/3 retired people this is where the majority of their investments seem to lie. Those who are simply relying on 401k or other investments are also at risk due to the lack of diversification. Since their investments are tied to those 3 things. If any of the legs of the stool go out...the whole thing goes down.
- RetroTechie 5mo agoYou forgot Big Oil and weapon industry.
- red-iron-pine 5mo agoyeah big oil was here long before AI and will be long after that bubble pops they still call the shots in many states and much of canada
- justin66 5mo agoNever heard of her. His father, the tax evading felon recently pardoned by Trump, is rather more well known I would think. (But hardly a legend)
- woodpanel 5mo agowell a legend he is, if we are to believe what former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said about what the pardon was for: "one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes" he ever prosecuted as U.S. attorney.
- agnosticmantis 5mo agoWould you elaborate why she's considered a legend? She was certainly a victim and a refugee, of which we have many today, most being denied admission to the US. Are those all legends too?
- renegade-otter 5mo agoShe was in Jewish underground resistance after she escaped the ghetto, and that movement was responsible for saving a lot of lives. Sure, not a shockingly unique story in WWII, but she did better than these upward fail sons.
- nullorempty 5mo agoAll the great art should teach us that we can't take riches to the grave, it's too bad that this is being forgotten. Then again, may be they already figured out how to make their lives meaningfully longer. I often think what drives 80 year old Bidens and Trumps to live the stressful POTUS life. And I can think of only one incentive. Weird thoughts, but otherwise the dots just don't connect.
- avgDev 5mo agoDifferent people are driven by different things. Some people genuinely want to serve their nation and being a president is a huge honor to the family. You become part of history. Others may be serving their own interests as it gives them access to all information. Others may just want the power.