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There’s No Such Thing as a Good Billionaire

jacobin.com There’s No Such Thing as a Good Billionaire

Democrats want us to believe that there is some cohort of “good billionaires” who can be relied upon to fight for political progress. But as the right-wing turn of tech billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk suggests, this is nonsense.

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  • Always remember that a billionaire didn't become billionaire by chance: they got there by trampling over other people and lying on their tax return forms. Nobody with a sense of decency becomes obsenely rich because decent people don't do these things.

  • Occasionally Warren Buffet will say something that resembles what a normal human would think but then Berkshire Hathaway comes in a cleans out fire victims in shock.

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