Restacks
Yes, dark persistent predators.
“Thought experiment. There are 8,000,000,000 human beings in the world. About 3,000 of them are billionaires — what if we got rid of them?”
In 1964 Erich Fromm defined these personality-disordered as “the quintessence of evil”. He characterized the condition as “the most severe pathology and the root of the …
“So, it’s a simple question. What good do these people — this very, very, very small minority of people — do for the rest of us? And why do we keep them around when they are so manifestly bad for us?”
i’d like to report a thoughtcrime spill on aisle 13 :V all of this totally the alleviation of the gargantuan boil of oligarchy & corruption: start w/the lunatic currently sabatoging our social security w/a chainsaw
I would think of them as modern day Feudal Lord's. They have families, advisors, knights ( security guards) vassals and lackies.
Thought experiment. There are 8 billion human beings in the world. Only about 3,000 of them are billionaires—who control $17 trillion.
What if we got rid of them? I mean, if we really committed, you think we could take ‘em?
Time to think outside the box.
“In the US, if you liquidated, financially speaking of course, the 750-ish billionaires — who are worth about $7,000,000,000,000 collectively — and divvied up the proceeds among every American citizen, 350,000,000 of us, we’d all get a $20,000 check. Sounds pretty good, right? And, really, how hard would that be? The billionaires would a…