return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 3 months agoWho wants to be a trillionaire? Don’t laugh. That’s exactly where America’s oligarchic policies are taking us.www.motherjones.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1190arrow-down17cross-posted to: aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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minus-squareWhatsThePoint@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24arrow-down1·3 months agoIt’s score card wealth. Absolutely ludicrous and pointless. It only serves to tip the power balance towards a handful of people over democracy.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up21arrow-down1·3 months agoIt’s not scorecard wealth for the exact reason you state. It gives them elite status and gives them the power that comes with it. When you are worth more money than many nations are, the elected officials will kowtow to you regardless of what the people may want.
minus-squareastraeus@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·3 months agoYay we’re going back to feudalism!
minus-squareWhatsThePoint@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-23 months agoI say score card wealth to iterate it’s more than any person could claim to need to live on for even a lavished life. I did mention it being used to give them unfair power - I agree with you.
It’s score card wealth. Absolutely ludicrous and pointless. It only serves to tip the power balance towards a handful of people over democracy.
It’s not scorecard wealth for the exact reason you state. It gives them elite status and gives them the power that comes with it.
When you are worth more money than many nations are, the elected officials will kowtow to you regardless of what the people may want.
Yay we’re going back to feudalism!
Did we ever really leave it?
I say score card wealth to iterate it’s more than any person could claim to need to live on for even a lavished life. I did mention it being used to give them unfair power - I agree with you.