I miss the days when billionaires mostly just stayed quiet, and used some of their money to start foundations like the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. If we have to have billionaires, then at least let’s have quiet and respectable ones.
They were influencing public policy then too and hoarding wealth damaging society, just more through corporate lobbyists indirectly because they thought there would be consequences for breaking the laws. Now the oligarchs do it in the open because they know there won’t be consequences aside from a letter from the DoJ asking them to please stop.
I miss the days when billionaires mostly just stayed quiet, and used some of their money to start foundations like the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. If we have to have billionaires, then at least let’s have quiet and respectable ones.
They were influencing public policy then too and hoarding wealth damaging society, just more through corporate lobbyists indirectly because they thought there would be consequences for breaking the laws. Now the oligarchs do it in the open because they know there won’t be consequences aside from a letter from the DoJ asking them to please stop.
Oh I know, but at least they kept quiet and didn’t invade our peace a hundred times per day.