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by jollofricepeas 550 days ago
Exactly.

Unfortunately, it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of destruction that Jeff and other billionaires have wreaked on US small businesses and the poor.

EXAMPLES:

Billionaires are driving up single family home prices across the US:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/wall-street-buying-houses

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/02/21/how-wall-street-bought-s...

Bezos and Musk fight unionization and workers rights?

https://www.jwj.org/emboldened-billionaires-take-aim-at-new-...

The prison phone market is owned by billionaires: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inmate_telephone_system

Amazon now accepts SNAP/EBT payments after destroying small businesses:

https://www.paymentsdive.com/news/amazon-now-accepts-ebt-car...

Farmers are not allowed to reuse seeds from billionaire firms:

https://grain.org/en/article/5142-seed-laws-that-criminalise...

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Notably, each item you cite involves some manner of prior government-centralized policy decision. Each forms the basis for a gross economic distortion.