• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Here’s hoping.

    Historically this level of wealth inequality has always led to market crashes, which while calamitous, end up spurring positive change in and of themselves. We’ll see.

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      3 hours ago

      Touch wood this incoming crash doesn’t just end up being a method for the richest to get richer and the poor to die out in droves.

      This level of wealth inequality is genuinely unprecedented, given that there’s one meth head currently ‘valued’ at an english Billion or an american Trillion. (For those out of the loop that’s a one, with TWELVE zeros after it)

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        a method for the richest to get richer and the poor to die out in droves.

        I think, unfortunately, that’s a foregone conclusion. We saw in the Epstein Files that heads of state and billionaires generally know when economic crashes are coming and are able to time them well, and the spike in suicide rates during an economic crash is well-documented.

        All you and I can really do is make the best choices for ourselves and try to show basic kindness to the people on our block.

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          3 hours ago

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