It must be completely obvious that the last gilded age is not comparable to Musk and Bezos and Zuckerberg and the dozen or so centibillionaires worth over 100 billion each and the over 800 other billionaires. It is also obvious that the best places to live on planet Earth have a mixed economy like the United States did before the Reagan Revolution. A lack of universal healthcare is the single most glaring feature of American society found in no other developed nation and the tell that we have lost our way. That we certainly have plenty of billionaires makes it, again, completely obvious that oligarchy has destroyed “the American Dream.”
We have traded the richest middle class in history enjoying single income home ownership for a few hundred ultra-rich winners and hundreds of millions of losers one medical emergency away from bankruptcy and homelessness. Wealth and income caps and progressive taxation effectively ending the billionaire class is our only hope.
It is the billionaire donors that are the real problem and they are absolutely terrified of a french revolution against them. That is all We the People need to do is go after them loudly loudly ferociously and viciously. They will settle for having a jet and yacht and a couple mansions because they know they can easily lose everything because the several hundred MILLION people extremely angry at them can take it all away. The only reason anyone owns anything is because the rest of us let them. This is the central truth of democracy. The central fact if that wealth inevitably concentrates upward to fewer and few individuals until a very few own everything and everyone (which ends democracy). The central question is how much wealth We the People allow the individual to keep so as to reward while safeguarding democracy. We MUST tax and regulate the billionaire class into oblivion. Tax Billionaires Into Oblivion T.B.I.O.
And we will win because A million people beats a billion dollars.
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