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      when even weathier than average citizens can’t afford it, then billionaires can buy up everything for chump change and squeeze that money back out of the populace with absurd rent that nobody will even try to undercut. especially now that anyone with one or more brain cell knows this whole idea of ‘checks and balances’ only applies to the poor

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        And once people have nothing left to lose and their families are starving they drag the rich into the streets and beat them to death with asphalt torn from the roads. History has repeated this scenario over and over again.

        As of 2023 there are 735 billionaires in the US, and 340,000,000 non-billionaires.