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A Boring Dystopia

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7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18! (sh.itjust.works)
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Billionaires 7 years ago:

https://web.archive.org/web/20171004002738/https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/

Billionaires today:

https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/

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[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 146 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Billionaires are a political choice as much as homelessness. They are allowed to exist because nobody does anything about it.

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They are allowed to exist because they can literally buy their own political system

[–] mPony@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

they can literally buy their own political system

They already have.