'The social costs of billionaires is substantial. Billionaires have purchased right-wing extremists on the Supreme Court, bought and either destroyed or subverted news organizations (such as the former Twitter), and turned their relationships with politicians into patronage troughs.
All of this has undermined the common good.
If capitalism were working as it should, billionaires wouldn’t exist. Shawn Fain is correct.'
Do billionaires have a right to exist? - Robert Reich https://robertreich.substack.com/p/billionaires-dont-have-a-right-to?publication_id=365422&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=diqr
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