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Re:The Greatest Wealth Transfer in History Is Here, with Fam... by Incipient on Sunday May 14, 2023 @01:10PM (#35939452)
Yet how woefully it has failed to curtail growing inequality. The well off have proven for millennia they won't support the hardest hit on society. Governments have to do that.
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Re:The Greatest Wealth Transfer in History Is Here, with Fam... by readthenotes1 on Sunday May 14, 2023 @02:08PM (#35939966)
And yet what is a government except people who are doing what they can to maintain the power they have?
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Re:The Greatest Wealth Transfer in History Is Here, with Fam... by Incipient on Sunday May 14, 2023 @07:39PM (#35942373)
Oh yeah when thy rich can mostly openly, or at least legally, buy politicians nothing will change.

I hope the US can pull themselves out, but everyone seems stuck quibbling over the extremes of minor issues, rather than important difficult topics.

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Re:The Greatest Wealth Transfer in History Is Here, with Fam... by readthenotes1 on Thursday May 18, 2023 @06:44PM (#35995270)
Or worse, quibbling over minor issues to avoid settling important problems so that there's a platform to motivate votes
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