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Sandi Brockway's avatar

And another one I have repeated for decades, "capitalism in no way is any guarantee of democracy."

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Any empathically balanced person possessed of multi-billions of dollars would likely at least give away enough to make a dent in hunger or homelessness; then would be able to die with a sense of having helped lessen the tremendous suffering implicit in predatory capitalism. It would be an act of paying back the society for that rapacious insatiable monster that generated their absurd riches. But billionaires who continue to accumulate wealth demonstrate that such concerns barely register on their radar. This is sociopathy of the first order. That mentally imbalanced freaks like Gates run the society is emblematic of the profound corruption at the core of market economics, essentially a casino for plutocrats.

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