#AmandaMarcotte on #Salon notes how people tend to be awed by the #MorbidlyWealthy. I have neighbors who are convinced #ElonMusk is a genius. Please #GetOverIt. https://www.salon.com/2023/03/14/silicon-valley-collapse-cinches-it-tech-billionaires-are-just-as-as-wall-street/

This is a tough one, but keep in mind a couple of things. (1) Apparently at least 30% of people in #USA have more than $250,000 saved and (2) you pretty much have to have a bank account, but, on the other hand, the #MorbidlyWealthy part of society fights any intrusion into their financial activities. https://www.vox.com/money/2023/3/13/23638417/svb-bank-bailout-signature-fed-fdic-treasury-janet-yellen

Too bad the #MorbidlyWealthy love conflict because it allows them to make enormous gains while the rest of us suck it. #conflict #nationalism https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/16/imf-says-fragmentation-could-cost-global-economy-up-to-7percent-of-gdp.html

So, it's a race then. We take their money and power away before they decide to live forever. Still, there is such a thing as quality of life. Simply being alive would probably get old quickly (haha). Other than #MorbidlyWealthy being typical a**holes, who would get to live forever. #Ethics, is there no problem not insurmountable? #LiveForever #medicine https://futurism.com/elderly-billionaires-immortal-compounding-wealth-forever

@atomicpoet Oh yeah, #PeterThiel is evil. The thing about the morbidly wealthy is that they really just want everything to be the way they want it to be and will do anything to achieve it. Except for the #MorbidlyWealthy #Russians who seem to be dropping like flies, they're happiest with an authoritarian government they control. #billionaires

It is obvious at a macro-level that #workers are getting screwed over as corporations and the #MorbidlyWealthy get more wealthy, but individual companies can obfuscate much more effectively. #labor needs to get going before the herd drifts back to the #Republicans and #LaborLaws are no longer enforced. https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/16/apple_decoy_labor_group/

@Clarity Yet I doubt the #freemarket is going to provide public toilets. Especially for people who can't pay for their use. For every smarmy #morbidlywealthy, #entitled a**hole blathering about how great is #capitalism, there are millions upon millions without sufficient food, shelter, healthcare, toilets, etc.

I wish #conservative jerks would quit chirping about the #freemarket. There is no such thing. It's a theoretical ideal that has never existed. #capitalism is all about allowing the #morbidlywealthy to accumulate more wealth, which gives them more political control. #pitchforksandtorches! https://www.salon.com/2022/11/16/insulin-used-to-be-affordable--and-then-seemingly-out-of-nowhere-it-wasnt-why/

Hmmm, first the #Sackler family and now #Walmart. It's almost like the interests of the #morbidlywealthy and #largecorporations are aligned. How can that be with #freemarket #captalism? https://www.axios.com/2022/11/15/walmart-opioid-lawsuits-settlement

Workers in the #USA, and that's most of us, get little more than table scraps despite having to obtain the food, prepare it, serve it and clean up the mess. This goes back, big time, to #RonaldReagan. Out of our never growing pay, we have to pay housing, healthcare, education, utilities, transportation, childcare, recreation, retirement, etc. The #morbidlywealthy and #businesses are unwilling to give workers anything and #Republicans enable them. #unions #laborpower https://theconversation.com/american-workers-feel-alienated-helpless-and-overwhelmed-heres-one-way-to-alleviate-their-malaise-192389