rich people aren't all equal. if any of them authentically engage in earning to give, i respect that. i'm just... skeptical. earning to give has turned out to be grifting a few times, too. i even think business practices can, in theory, be conducted with integrity. i think services and investments can, in theory, improve conditions in the communities receiving them. some stuff serves the common weal. not everything that makes a rich person richer also makes a poor person poorer. again though, i'm skeptical. billionaires have thoroughly destroyed democratic governance and taken over, and with this death of political freedom, they created a system that makes almost everyone hopeless, miserable, and exhausted while granting rich people positions of wealth and authority whether they do anything to earn it or not. so no, rich people aren't equal, but it's still true that most of them suck. they're the ruling class. everyone else serves them or else. and they run an empire of surveillance and kickbacks that keeps clamping down on the public's liberties while doing little in aggregate to solve the problems of the marginalized...
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