• Maeve@kbin.earth
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    Was he on that island discussing whether the billionaires could keep their security detail loyal with shock collars?

    Ellison is the world’s sixth-richest man with a net worth of $157 billion, according to Bloomberg.

    They are really concerned when people tire of their children dying from hunger and easily treatable diseases, we’ll be coming for them. But rather than give up an iota of the money generations can never spend for our ecology and things people need to live, they resort to things like shock collars and surveillance states.

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    Thank you all for these comments, they have made another horrible piece of news a bit less horrible (by knowing people are apaled by this shit).

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    Maybe billionaires should be filmed and streamed continuously, since their behavior has such a big impact on the world. If they don’t like it maybe we shouldn’t allow them to control such incredible assets. I’m sure billionaires have nothing sketchy to hide, right? What we will see is probably how they are hard working people who are not at all detached from normal folks. Right?

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    Guy has been a fed since day one. Involved in early CIA projects. Bunch of the early contracts he got for Oracle came directly from the CIA. It made the company. They’ve been pally ever since. Ellison is just the CIA with all the social tact of a tech billionaire.

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    Emboldened oligarch in a plutocracy.

    But also kleptocracy and really a kakistocracy disguised outwardly as an aristocracy or neo-monarchy as Raskin said.

    Outside of just saying “America” or “Capitalism” How do we combine all of this into one satisfying, effective term?

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      Easy peasy. Don’t want to be captured by surveillance cameras? You are free to not go where the cameras are.

      Oh, are you not wealthy? Do you not have land? Do you not have access to food, power, other resources without venturing out to where these cameras are? Get more money and stop whining, you dirty poor.

      This is why my infatuation with libertarianism that most teens seem to go through only lasted a week.

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    Only the fact that he is able to say shit like that out loud is a sign of a rotting society. People are ok with being their slaves