• 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    I don’t care about lists of wealth hoarders, I want a list of all the people who have lost gross amounts of wealth and why. And lets start with a list but try to keep expanding it until its a pamphlet, or a book, or a tome.

    edit: corrected typo

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      1 year ago

      people who have lost gross amounts of wealth and why

      I would like to start a list with the “why” filled in as “beheading” and just begin populating it from the top down.

    • I want a list of the wealthiest and how they came into their wealth. Why? Because that way I know who to keep an eye out for. :)

      Also, I’m less pissed off at people who inherit wealth than the ones who horde it. Someone who inherits billions and then doesn’t use it isn’t nearly as bad as someone who has billions because they crushed everyone else under their heel. The former didn’t ask to be born into that life, but the latter sought it out. That doesn’t mean the former is blameless, but they’re not necessarily evil like the latter.

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        In a just world the “wealthy” would have at most 100 times the wealth of the poorest person on earth, and it would barely matter.

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      Good, let his empire of lies collapse and let those that have been grifted by supporting him either realize their mistake or just get angry and we can laugh at them for being idiots

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      We tried that for a while (the entire early 2000s), and it didn’t work.

      We need to ruthlessly ridicule him and anyone who supports him. Embarrassment seems to be the only thing that works. It takes more than normal to embarrass him, but it does work. See: Stormy Daniels mushroom analogy. One of the only things he shut up about.