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US billionaire wealth surges to $8.1 trillion as affordability crisis hammers working class
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Just a bit more wealth at the top. Gonna trickle down any day, now guys. No way they’d just hoard it as a measuring contest. No one is that juvenile, right?
I think this is less of a water in the dam situation and more of a candy in the piñata situation.
A whole lot trickles down once you kneecap 'em.
Kneecapping them would be unlikely to bleed them, I propose hanging and spearing them. Also I want to do at least one human sacrifice.
Crueler to keep them alive and make an example out of them. The kneecapping is just to "clip their wings", slow them down, and give them some pain they cant forget.
Some will trickle down alright, 10% trickle up and 1% trickle down. Be happy with your 1%.
It used to be the excuse for qualitative easing that they'd invest it rather than spend it ("the velocity of money") but now they have robot armies, space programs, and AI data centers to blow the money on.