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In reply to the discussion: Sick to my stomach. [View all]Warpy
(111,410 posts)When we broke off from England, wealth was measured by land and only white males who owned land could vote. We've slowly been democratizing from that lackluster start but we're still a work in progress.
Waves of wealthy men, whether Robber Baron industrialists who created monopolies, financiers who gave us the boom and bust cycles, or the current crop of tech billionaires, have always rigged the system to benefit themselves and that rigging has invariably caused it to come apart at the seams.
In other words, this current paradigm of oppression isn't going to last forever. I'll wager it's not going to last a hell of a lot longer, since most self problaimed billionaires are afloat on an ocean of debts hidden by offshore dummy corporations.
If only more people realized rich men are lucky but not smart.