Hackers' Pub

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aburtch @aburtch@triangletoot.party

6/3/2025, 5:09:25 PM

Public

How the billionaire hoarders prevent everyone else from having nice things.

Post World War II, a single income of a factory worker could support a family, own a house, drive two cars, and afforded vacations. Today most families with two parents working full time can barely make ends meet.

201 million Americans (almost 60%) live in poverty where a minimal quality of life is out of reach. Compare this to 5% in Italy and 11% in Japan.

https://newrepublic.com/article/195862/billionaire-hoarders-wealthy-biggest-threat

#oligarchs

Wealth becomes addictive. Fortune
whets the appetite for still more
fortune. There is no end to the
amount of money one might wish to
accumulate, driven onward by the
auri sacra fames, the cursed hunger
for gold.

So the money addicts grab more and
more for themselves, more than can
be spent in a thousand lifetimes of
limitless indulgence, driven by what
begins to resemble an obsessional
pathology, a monomania that blots
out every other human consideration.

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