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Pity the Billionaire (nymag.com)
10 points by xenophon 1508 days ago
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He's only worth 1.7 billion USD? I don't believe it, unless he made terrible investments during the pandemic.

The whole thing stinks.

Sadly, while it can buy mansions, islands, planes, and even rockets, money can buy neither love nor self-awareness.
See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_class

which started out as an internal complaint in the communist world and became increasingly central to right-wing thought in the west since the 1970s, also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerated_workers%27_state