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Pity the Billionaire

by xenophon on 5/5/22, 7:48 PM with 3 comments

• by metadat on 5/5/22, 8:48 PM

  He's only worth 1.7 billion USD? I don't believe it, unless he made terrible investments during the pandemic.

  The whole thing stinks.

• by username223 on 5/6/22, 1:04 PM

  Sadly, while it can buy mansions, islands, planes, and even rockets, money can buy neither love nor self-awareness.

• by PaulHoule on 5/5/22, 7:58 PM

  See

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_class

  which started out as an internal complaint in the communist world and became increasingly central to right-wing thought in the west since the 1970s, also

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerated_workers%27_state