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Z745812939054@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• PixellatedDave@feddit.uk ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think also rich people need to have poor people otherwise they won’t be seen to be rich. Also wealth = power

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  • Z745812939054@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    you make a good point, but i think of “rich people” as the families who have been unimaginably wealthy for hundreds of years. not musk, not bezos, bill gates, etc. the “old money” doesn’t care if you know they’re rich–in fact they would prefer you didn’t. they just want to control the trajectory of your life in order to keep you in your place, and prevent you from encroaching on their position of power.

    think warburgs and rothschilds, not the idiotic rich people flaunting their wealth on twitter

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    • tyler@programming.dev ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Porque no los dos?

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      • Z745812939054@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        i mean, fuck musk and bezos and all the rest too. call me a conspiracy theorist, but i’m skeptical of the notion that these people are actually the “richest” of all rich people

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    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Bill Gates didn’t exactly not come from money.

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      • Z745812939054@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        While raising their children, Bill Sr. and Mary instilled in them a strong work ethic, the importance of community and the significance of helping others.
        people.com/all-about-bill-gates-parents-8624696

        that could all be a lie of course, who knows…

        yes, bill gates’s parents were loaded. i’m talking about families that have been too wealthy to measure for many many generations, since banking was invented

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    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Are you saying tech oligarchs don’t have as much desire or ability to control people’s lives and prevent threats to their power?

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      • Z745812939054@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        desire or ability to control people’s lives

        no. the desire is there. and in some cases the ability too.

        but they are still muppets, controlled by people more powerful than they are. the fact that elon musk, the “richest man in the world” doesn’t get everything he wants should tell you something.

        you need to change your mindset away from thinking people like elon musk are the top of the food chain. he’s fucking not.

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    • PixellatedDave@feddit.uk ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah but that’s the power part though

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      • Z745812939054@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        money and power are intimately connected, but they are not the same thing

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  • unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah. A rich person can’t exist when no-one’s poor.

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