Ten Ways You're Being Burned By Billionaires
Chuck Collins, author, and co-editor of Inequality.org, reveals ten ways that wealth concentrated in the hands of a few dramatically affects your life.
His powerful article takes less than five minutes to read, and includes steps we can take together to fight the billionaire hijacking of society and democracy. Read the article in Inequality.org
Wilsons Grave
Good grief! This guy lays it out straight. If everyone understood the solid harms of such deranged greed, they'd be out protesting all day long in even greater numbers and giving these scoundrels' the boot. I also just heard that Elon is asking his board of directors for an annual salary of 1 trillion dollars.
Evangel
I heard that, too. There can be no limits for the glorified titans of industry--that would be called socialism. But impose all you will on the plebeians.
Slipstream
Great article, and it all rings true. Their money helps no one but them. They do little for communities unless there's more money in it for them. They can't seem to get enough, and it's at the expense of the rest of us.
Evangel
Agreed. They can't get enough. Fifty years from now, no one will know or care who they are even if their name remains etched into the White House ballroom.
Well Street
This article is both informative and depressing. When New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani said he believed billionaires shouldn't exist, he was unsurprisingly met with eye-rolling and rebuke from Republicans and labelled a communist.
I wonder if there's a world where, when presented with the information in Chuck Collins' book, the same Republicans would have second thoughts or merely regard it as radical leftist propaganda.
Of the 905 billionaires Mr. Collins mentions, we have Jeff Bezos' ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott, and Melinda Gates, who are channeling their wealth toward the betterment of the underserved. I hope there are others like them.