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by Varelion 8 days ago
As they should. Money boils down to a finite resource, and a class of people have been flaunting their theft of the working class since the famous balcony champagne image taken during Occupy Wallstreet.

That singular image should be the poster of this Epstein era.
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WalterBright 8 days ago
> Money boils down to a finite resource

Musk more amply demonstrated how wealth is created.

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Varelion 8 days ago
Yeah, start by having enough to buy more influence with the right people, so they don't realize your assets are nowhere near a correct valuation.
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laughing_man 8 days ago
The idea SpaceX is where it is because he bought influence with the right people is fanciful thinking on the part of Musk's detractors.
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laughing_man 8 days ago
Theft? I don't see any indication of widespread theft. The fact that you don't make as much as you wish you were making doesn't make you a victim of theft.
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zuzululu 8 days ago
The reason there is cynicism around philanthropy by America's elite class is perhaps the obliviousness to the methods and means it is created and supported.

"Here is a few billion dollar to a non profit company I control but you better not write that in the article" or "I didn't care for social consequences, I was just another player, it was ultimately for you" vibes

it just doesn't have the impact it used to, ironically because then inflation was low and integrity/morality was rewarded as society.

I think Ray Dalio has done a fantastic job of mapping out the trajectory we are on. We've already started seen glimpse of it and I don't think its going to cool down. America and the West in general has growing fatigue with various elements and perhaps the biggest one is that of wealth gap disparity.

Perhaps a snapshot of where we are: The richer you get the more you need access and proximity to those that monopolized violence and pay protection money too. It's not unlike Italy in the 1800s, you need money to purchase and distribute violence to acquire more resources and eventually the gap gets too big, people can't afford bread, and they get bold.

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Varelion 8 days ago
You do not become a Billionaire without abusing and taking advantage of others. It would be foolish to think that anyone with that pattern of behavior would or could be philanthropic.

The one exception I had for this was Bill Gates.

Then I looked into the past behavior of Microsoft, and what he was going with Jeffery Epstein.

I no longer hold him as an exception.

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