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wait until you hear about how in OECD nations, democracy isn't allowed to change the underlying economic system

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Oligarchs are one of the things they were worried about way back during the very first Congress. They foresaw everything back then, we just haven't been smart enough to listen.

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When you are right, you are right. The not so secret flaw in the neo-liberal project was that making the top 1 percent obscenely rich would just make them eager investors in our every growing value addded, Pareto princes. An ideology for dupes.

Democracy is also not compatible with billionaires being able to buy and control unlimited parts of our media ecosystem. (We can use competition law to break that up)

I don't believe democracy is compatible with billionaires

I concur. I think that when a single rich human can have more influence and control than millions of their neighbors we have a problem unless that person is proportionally wise, compassionate and humble. There has never been such a person. We’ve been repeatedly warned about this but keep allowing it

I have my doubts about billionaires.

tl;dr: not real excited about the whole idea of anyone having billions of dollars

It's literally the #1 failure mode of a democracy. Aristotle told us!

“Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.” - Aristotle writing 2,300 years ago

Frankly, democracy is not compatible with billionaires at all. open.substack.com/pub/samw1368...

Amen

Make billionaires agree