I've just started getting into Trueanon and was listening to the Bush Did 9/11 series. It's pretty common knowledge (around here anyway) that the ultrawealthy really do fucking run everything and shape the narrative such that they can keep doing so no matter how heinous the atrocities they commit. Absurd wealth really is absolute power. But it makes me wonder... what about the "new money"? As just one example, like Bill Gates. I know he's an evil capitalist motherfucker, but he wasn't among the powerful elite when he started out. Is there some point where people like him get "jumped in" to the violent gang that steers geopolitics? Does he know that Bush (and co.) really did do 9/11? Are even those who have the most wealth, at least ostensibly known to the public, kept in check by the power of those behind the 3 -letter agencies? Maybe this is a stupid question and I realize any answers will inevitably just have to be speculation, but I'm trying to wrap my head around this and would love to hear thoughts.
Right, but I guess the question is... was that how Gates/Bezos always saw the rest of humanity and never would have gotten where they were if they didn't start off that way? Or was it something that developed. Again, does Gates know about how 9/11 was an "inside job" to benefit his cohort? Is he in full knowledge of all this other shit that goes down and ok with it? Turn a blind eye? Because "new money" were people not too dissimilar from us in terms of class at one point.
Who knows? Listening to Behind The Bastards episodes on both of those freaks it's clear that they were always tremendous jerks. Bill's mom had to tell him to shut the fuck up a few times at dinner as a kid just because of how snarky and pedantic he was. Of course, I would say their prejudices stem from the antagonisms of class society in that they were from wealthy families to begin with, and their increasing success just emboldened their already callous attitudes.
We can only ever speculate the degree to which these people collude and how much knowledge they have of their going-ons. Judging from how Bill reacted to being asked about Epsteins death I would say a lot of them do know about some of the sketchier shit. Again, it's all just speculation.
Also new money are absolutely not "not that far removed from us", pretty much all of these people had connections the average person in no way has