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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Billionaires work hard for their money and deserve every penny of it" is the modern Divine Right of Kings.
When you have wealth and power, gained through inheritance, theft, or exploitation, you have a powerful incentive to justify your riches, and solidify your claim to them.
I hope one day the bulk of the working peoples of this country will stop believing this crap.
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"Billionaires work hard for their money and deserve every penny of it" is the modern Divine Right of Kings. (Original Post)
Aristus
11 hrs ago
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Ilsa
(64,754 posts)1. Yeah, Don Jr, Eric, and Ivanka look exhausted all of the time! nt
orthoclad
(5,149 posts)2. Capitalism is feudalism.
struggle4progress
(127,189 posts)3. "Remember how the government hounded Al Capone to an early grave?"
Diamond_Dog
(41,515 posts)4. Why the working poor would believe this is beyond comprehension.
Yet many MAGAts do.
orthoclad
(5,149 posts)6. The biggest propaganda machine in history
constantly tells them they can get their reward.
orthoclad
(5,149 posts)5. Musk worked a million times harder
than a worker who saved a million over a lifetime (counting house, etc).
Ketamine helped. Busy busy.