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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

the de facto conspiracy to pretend he didn't do that is crazy-making. all this straight news about Tesla and SpaceX without so much as a whisper of the 7-figure child murder thing

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