• Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net
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    It’s not “billionaire class”. It’s owning class.

    It ain’t that they have a lot of money, it’s how they came to acquire that money as an effect of the system of ownership we currently live under incentivising rampant exploitative practices as the most efficient methods of personal enrichment.

    Billionaires are just the best at being exploitative; they aren’t the only ones though.

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      Most billionaires get their money by exploiting loopholes in the government. For example, they pay no taxes, yet the government will still prosecute people who kill them.

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        yet the government will still prosecute people who kill them.

        They actually spend money to keep anyone from even trying.

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        The owning class are the ones who control and dictate our government structure. Of course they are going to create avenues for advancement of their interests. The system was built by them, for them.