• WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    I could be persuaded by the theory that they need to be loved because when you work people harder for less while you live as an economic god, they become increasingly unsatisfied. The love is a way of assuaging the violence that historically follows the wealth inequality. There's probably coordinated efforts just like when they let those billionaires into the democratic primary in 2020. They must be selling you something, right? You don't get to be a billionaire without a pathological desire for profit and exploitation. If you see them, they're trying something.

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      You don’t get to be a billionaire without a pathological desire for profit and exploitation

      Don't they tend to just inherit the family money and continue the practices of wealth accumulation and labor exploitation that capital has worn into a familiar path