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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13h

There are many ways in which every billionaire is a policy failure, but the most corrosive and destructive way in which billionaires are policy failures is this: billionaires, despite being unelected and unaccountable, possess the power to control - and ruin - millions of peoples' lives.

The Warner Brother tower posed against a vintage map of Burbank, keeling over, tearing up a huge clot of sod and concrete. Standing atop of the tower, forcing it down, is a sad, spavined donkey in Democratic Party livery. Being crushed under the tower is the California flag bear, with blood pouring out of its eye and mouth.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13h

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Unmikely @unmikely.bsky.social · 11h

It’s 70 and sunny. I’m about to walk down my street to get my son from aftercare, go play catch at the park. We’ll probably bump into his friends and I’ll talk with other parents while they play. I might get him something from the paletero. Life. Serendipity. Billionaires don’t get to experience it.

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imeanhello.bsky.social @imeanhello.bsky.social · 12h

It not just that they have the power to ruin millions of lives that’s worrying, it’s that that’s exactly what they want to do that’s most worrying. They see us all as useless ants while they’re gods with a divine right stomp us out of existence…

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LX @lx4.bsky.social · 10h

One thing i noted upon dining at a restaurant with ultra-rich patrons was that i felt like i was treated like a toddler. It felt like the wait staff were on the verge of offering to spoon feed me. And it feels like muse and dots are offering the same “luxury” of reliving our terrible twos.

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baseballbatjohnw @atjohnw.bsky.social · 13h

yes but also they crimed constantly just to get to that point in the first place

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Aaron Miller @aaronmiller.bsky.social · 13h

Great stuff as usual. It pisses me off to no end...I may want to help light the match that burns every one of these assholes at the stake ever more than before-- but I also get smarter about the topic every time I read your stuff.

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Jas Easterly @jaseasterly.bsky.social · 13h

IMHO, a healthy limit to wealth is the financial capacity to do anything one wants, but not everything one wants.

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