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That's basically it.

It's so wild, Scott!

Billionaires are the modern day kings and queens. Europe is rich on history of what happens when those get greedy and don't want to share. And that's honestly a scary thought.

I want to see this picture where the cookies are actually proportionate. If the worker on the right has one cookie (let's say $100K to be generous), a billionaire with $10B will have 100,000 cookies, which is probably several truckloads.

Especially crazy when it's billionaires who are immigrants/descendants of recent immigrants who tell poor people that elites and immigrants are the problem.

Billionaires shouldn't exist.

have a strong feeling who that one was

^^ this right here!

If you can convince the working class you’re targeting illegal immigrants with your anti-working class policies then they will vote for you to do it. It’s the snake eating its own tail or whatever.

As they used to say, ca. 2400 years ago: "διαίρει καὶ βασίλευε diaírei kài basíleue" (Divide and rule).

This is not earth prime.

www.ted.com/talks/nick_h... this 10 years old Ted talk was getting a lot of upvotes on Reddit last night. Tl:dw - there are only two outcomes of growing inequity- Police State or Pitchforks …

When they announced with the Giving Pledge to donate their money, I was actually quite enthusiastic about the future. But looking at how others are fantasizing about living forever and being the first trillionaire, this hope slowly fades.