Comment by eru
21 hours ago
When Bill Gates was the richest guy in the world, he still had to battle the authorities for ten years to import his sports car from Europe.
I'd hardly call that controlling the government.
21 hours ago
When Bill Gates was the richest guy in the world, he still had to battle the authorities for ten years to import his sports car from Europe.
I'd hardly call that controlling the government.
Again, like I said, the capitalism you knew and loved is dead. When Bill Gates became the richest man in the world he had like $10 billion dollars. Today we are talking about trillionares now. As today's elites aspire to be able to own 1995 Bill Gates 100 times over, so yeah apparently he didn't have enough power back then.
Can you entertain the idea that someone several orders of magnitude more powerful than 1995 Bill Gates might have more effective control over the government?
Aren't you begging the question? You are saying that today's richest have more money (though you should probably adjust for gdp growth), and I agree. However, you are automatically concluding that they have more power?