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"Either way, the concentration of wealth at the very top is much higher now than it ever was during the Gilded Age. And these are numbers from last year, before the SpaceX IPO. The robber barons were pikers compared with today’s oligarchs." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/meet-the-n...

say what you like about JP Morgan, Rockefeller, Carnegie, et al, but I think it's fair to say that it wouldn't have even occurred to them to do what Elon Musk did to USAID. only an utterly degenerate monster would murder a million+ children basically for the hell of it

I can't hear a thing at this graveyard on account of almost every financial and political journalist whistling as loud as they can, very odd! bsky.app/profile/goli...

For what it is worth, this anti-moral / amoral aspect of capitalism is why many conservatives throughout history have criticized it.