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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026

Whether it's Leona Helmsley's claim that "only the little people pay taxes," or Elon Musk's habit of calling people who disagree with him "NPCs," the whole ideological project of billionaireism is shot through with a kind of solipsism: pluralistic.net/2026/01/05/f... 15/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026

This is true even in one-on-one encounters: for the Epstein Class, the children raped on his island weren't fully real - certainly not as real as their own children. 16/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026

It's even more true for the people that billionaires experience as statistical artifacts, such as Jeff Bezos's vast army of drivers and warehouse workers, with their sky-high on-the-job injury rates and the everyday indignity of their piss-bottles. 17/

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James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Yes, people like Gates protecting and nurturing their own spoiled kids whilst befriending a man they knew perfectly well was abusing and very likely sometimes killing children of the poor.

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