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by jseban 1465 days ago
Haha the people who think that bill gates and jeff bezos is actually sitting on that money in cash, LOL

Think also a bit about who is benefitting and making money from instigating this type of jealousy, being exploited as an unpaid click puppet is even worse than being a warehouse worker.
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jonathankoren 1465 days ago
> Think also a bit about who is benefitting and making money from instigating this type of jealousy

I'll bite. Who? Who has the money, power, and motivation to secretly manipulate the pliable masses to turn against the billionaires, for their own nefarious ends?

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jseban 1464 days ago
> I'll bite. Who? Who has the money, power, and motivation to secretly manipulate the pliable masses to turn against the billionaires, for their own nefarious ends?

Everyone who is not a billionaire, but still currently holds a privileged position compared to the pliable masses, will benefit from such propaganda of over simplified "injustice", because if will deflect attention away from their own privilege and keep them safe.

You will see this most clearly if you look at ivory tower academics or cultural elite, who love to hate rich capitalists for being greedy, to get the "people" on their side to avoid having their own privilege under scrutiny, which in reality is often just as greedy and selfish.

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jonathankoren 1464 days ago
Who told you this? Petey "Women should never have gotten the vote" Thiel?

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...

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