How Billionaires See Themselves ❧ Current Affairs
www.currentaffairs.org

Reading the dreadful memoirs of the super-rich offers an illuminating look at their delusions.

In his latest article he explicitly and approvingly cites Marx twice (with a few more implicit mentions) and comes up with two elegant destructions of common billionaire apologia arguments: " They don't do it for the money - then it should be no problem if we tax most of it away, right?" and "They worked hard for it - well, thieves can also work hard".

Obviously he has a number of very shitty takes but it's over the top to dismiss him completely.

    • garbology [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      fancyladism

      NJR has a portrait in his attic that is progressively dressing more slovenly.

      • garbology [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Wait I lied, NJR was the portrait in Žižek's attic that was progressively more fancylad who escaped to do a socialist mag in the US.