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By Michael Talmo | THE REAL FACTS

January 16, 2026

In 1992, a simple slogan helped Bill Clinton get elected President of the United States: “It’s the economy, stupid!” The phrase was coined by political consultant James Carville, and it worked like a charm. Clinton defeated sitting President George Bush, Sr. (1924-2018) in a landslide victory. Clinton captured 368 electoral votes to Bush’s 168. It’s time for a liberal/progressive presidential candidate to adopt an updated version of that slogan. Hence, the title of this article.

But it won’t be quite that simple. Decades of unfettered right-wing propaganda have brainwashed the public into blaming minorities for our economic and social problems. We have legions of uninformed, ignorant voters who don’t know up from down. The poor and middle class have become a divided people, while the billionaire class has remained united. To change this, Americans, along with people in other countries, because billionaire wealth is a global problem, must first understand what’s really going on. Otherwise, they will remain mere pawns on the chessboard of life.

The situation we’re in

In 2017, Forbes Magazine reported that the three richest men in America, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Bill Gates, “collectively hold more wealth than the bottom 50% of the domestic population, ‘a total of 160 million people or 63 million American households,” with an estimated “combined fortune” of “$263 billion.” But that’s nothing compared to how billionaire wealth has skyrocketed since then.

In April 2025, Fortune Magazine reported that “the world’s billionaires now hold more wealth than every country in the world except the U.S. and China.” Take a minute to let that sink in, folks. We now have a global population of around 8.3 billion people within 195 countries. The combined population of the U.S. and China is around 1.8 billion. Meaning, the 3,028 billionaires occupying our planet with a combined net worth of $16.1 trillion dollars have more wealth than 6.5 billion people. With 808 million of those people living in extreme poverty, another 3.5 billion who are “poor by a standard that is more relevant for upper middle-income countries,” and 67% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, how can hoarding all of that wealth possibly be moral or economically justified?

As Business Insider reported, we are living in a second Gilded Age, which began with the presidency of Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) in 1981. Like the first Gilded Age of the late nineteenth/early twentieth century, our country is now ruled by oligarchs, which the Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines as “government by the few” or “a government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes.” Some synonyms for “oligarchy” are “despotism,” “tyranny,” “totalitarianism,” “repression,” “dominance,” and “subjugation.” And as explained, after that list of synonyms, oligarchs are usually the rich and privileged.

Nevertheless, there are millions of poor and middle-class people who have been duped into thinking that there’s nothing wrong with a few people having so much money and power. They think that billionaires are self-made and that anyone can be rich if they work hard enough. They believe that billionaires create jobs and are innovative geniuses that tirelessly work to improve our standard of living. They believe that the best way to help them accomplish this is via tax cuts and deregulation of their mega business empires, which is often referred to as “trickle-down” economics. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Burying the myths

As explained here and here, billionaires started out with parents who were either rich or upper middle class and who, in some cases, had connections to the wealthy. For example, Bill Gates came from a well-to-do family to begin with. But as CNBC reported, his mother knew the chairman/president of IBM, which helped Gates’ company, Microsoft, land the contract that in one year would make him a billionaire at age 31. Jeff Bezos got $250,000 from his parents to launch his business. In the case of billionaires like Elon Musk and Donald Trump, they were born on home plate. Musk’s family owned an emerald mine, and Fred Trump (1905-1999) had a net worth of 200 million. Of course, there are poor and low-income highly talented entertainers like Elvis Presley (1935-1977) and gifted athletes like Muhammad Ali (1942-2016) who became wealthy. But they’re the exception and not the rule.

As for wealth trickling down, it doesn’t. Business Insider reported on a 2022 study that “demolishes the myth that tax cuts for the rich will trickle down.” The London School of Economics and Political Science reported on a comprehensive 2020 study that analyzed “data from 18 OECD countries over the last five decades” and found (see Abstract) “that major reforms reducing taxes on the rich lead to higher income inequality” and that “such reforms do not have any significant effects on economic growth and unemployment.” The London School emphatically stated that history has shown us “that policies relying on ‘trickle-down economics’ are destined to fail.”

Nevertheless, as Investopedia reported, it was President Ronald Reagan in the U.S. and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) in the U.K. who brought trickle-down economics into mainstream politics, where it still remains entrenched to this day. Reagan even gave it a cutesy name that was coined by political strategist, Jude Wanniski (1936-2005), “supply-side economics.” But no matter what you call it, making the rich a whole lot richer benefits no one but the very rich and does immense harm to the rest of us.

Facing reality

Economics 101: What drives an economy? Demand! People having money in their pockets to buy things. Put adequate amounts of money into the pockets of poor and middle-class people, and they put it right back into the economy, which allows it to grow and provide more jobs. This, in turn, adequately funds the government via taxation, which then gives that revenue back to the people via maintaining the infrastructure and by providing and funding needed public services like fire departments, protection from criminals, mail delivery, public libraries, education, and a strong social safety net that includes healthcare and providing help in times of adversity. This creates a virtuous cycle.

Obscenely rich billionaires interfere with the aforementioned virtuous cycle by sucking most of the wealth out of the economy. They have so much money that they can’t possibly spend it (there aren’t enough of them to buy enough stuff to keep an economy going anyway), so they either hoard it, which is a big problem by itself, or they use it to cause even worse problems.

Pollution

Last November, Yahoo News reported that “fifty of the world’s richest billionaires emit more carbon through their investments, private jets, and yachts in just 90 minutes than the average person does in their entire lifetime.” It would take the average person “860 years” to emit the same amount of carbon.

For example, Jeff Bezos, the founder and former CEO of Amazon: His “private jets alone have emitted as much carbon as an average US Amazon employee would over 207 years.” That same month, UPI News reported that “Billionaires create over a million times more greenhouse gas emissions than average person.” Back in 2022, Euronews reported that “125 ultra-wealthy individuals emit the equivalent greenhouse gas emissions of 85 million cars in a year.”

For those among you who either don’t think global warming is real or who think it isn’t caused by humans, keep in mind that this is irrelevant to the fact that air and water pollution from fossil fuels kills millions of people every year and causes illness in many more. In 2022, the peer-reviewed journal The Lancet reported that “pollution remains responsible for approximately 9 million deaths per year,” which makes it “an existential threat to human health and planetary health, and jeopardises the sustainability of modern societies.” Pollution includes “contamination of the ocean by mercury, nitrogen, phosphorous, plastic, and petroleum waste; and poisoning of the land by lead, mercury, pesticides, industrial chemicals, electronic waste, and radioactive waste.”

Healthcare

America is the only wealthy industrialized country that doesn’t guarantee healthcare to all of its citizens nor even recognize it as a human right. Instead, healthcare is viewed as a commodity rather than as a vital public service. But as bad as for-profit health insurance companies and hospitals are, even worse are billionaires’ private equity firms, which buy up private medical practices, hospitals, nursing homes, you name it.

Missouri Medicine, the peer-reviewed journal of the Missouri State Medical Association, explained in this 2024 report that “private equity typically acquires healthcare entities to load them with debt, while distributing the funds received from the loans back to investors as dividends,” which results in “lower quality or an outright denial of medical care, a shortage of equipment, a firing of employees, and an increase in prices. Patients and physicians lose, at the expense of short-term private equity profits. In many cases, the ultimate outcome is closure or bankruptcy, leaving patients and employees stranded.” Hospital closures especially apply to rural hospitals, where traveling to a hospital emergency room much farther away could cost too many people their lives. But “private equity firms are not motivated by providing quality medical care to a community but rather are squeezing their targets for profits.”

Housing

An October 2025 Common Dreams article reported that in the U.S., “Billionaire demand for luxury housing is driving up the cost of land and housing construction, supercharging the already existing housing crisis” and that “Billionaire speculators are buying up rental housing, single family homes, and mobile home parks to squeeze more money out of the existing housing shortage,” which has been going on for decades and may take another decade to correct, as reported by J.P. Morgan. The NHC further reported that unaffordable housing has become “a nationwide affordability crisis that now impacts workers across nearly all income levels,” which has also been caused by “rising interest rates,” along with “wage stagnation,” which has also been going on for decades.

The NHC reported here and here that in Asheville, civil engineers cannot afford to buy a home despite a salary of nearly $100,000. Construction laborers and electricians cannot even afford to rent one-bedroom apartments. In Seattle, a dentist earning over $200,000 a year cannot afford a typically priced home with 10% down,” which is “eroding stability for workers, employers, and communities…the American dream of home ownership is slipping away.” In fact, Yahoo Finance reported in a 2025 article that middle-class people won’t be able to afford a home within ten years, along with nine other things.

Food

A report by Farm Aid explained that “A handful of corporations control our food from farm to fork. Their unbridled power grants them increasing political influence over the rules that govern our food system and allows them to manipulate the marketplace.” The result is a corporate system that drives family farmers out of business by lowering the prices paid to them while raising prices that consumers pay for groceries, along with giving them fewer choices. In other words, as reported in this 2024 article in The Atlantic, “Mergers and acquisitions have created food oligopolies that are inefficient, barely regulated, unfair, and even dangerous,” which, as explained in this 2024 article in The Conversation, is “damaging our health, our communities, and the planet.”

And who owns/controls the aforementioned food oligopolies? As reported in Euronews. Billionaires! Forbes Magazine and ABC News list who those billionaires are here and here. Naturally, the goal of this kind of corporate monopoly is to maximize profits, not provide healthy food, which is why singer Willie Nelson, founder and president of Farm Aid, emphatically stated that “Our food system belongs in the hands of many family farmers, not under the control of a handful of corporations.”

Jobs

Last year, Elon Musk declared that “AI and robots will replace all jobs” and that “working will be optional,” more like a hobby. Also last year, Common Dreams reported that “AI could kill nearly 100 million US jobs.” Within the next 10 years alone, AI and robots could replace “40% of registered nurses,” “64% of accountants,” “65% of teaching assistants,” and “89% of fast food workers, among many other occupations.” It’s happening already. There are self-driving trucking companies that brag about eliminating the need to pay high wages to human drivers. Predatory capitalism has always been about cheap labor. “UnitedHealth Group, JPMorgan Chase, and other companies are openly telling investors that AI will allow them to slash payrolls—even as they post tens of billions in profits and reward CEOs with pay packages of $25 million, $35 million, or more.”

And let’s not overlook the danger AI and robotics pose to our freedom and to our very existence. In this 2023 analysis, the BMJ warned that “seeking to create machines that are vastly more intelligent and powerful than ourselves” opens the door to “the potential for such machines to apply this intelligence and power—whether deliberately or not—in ways that could harm or subjugate humans.” This possibility “is real and has to be considered,” as reported here and here. Of course, while Elon Musk gets all gushy and squishy about AI and robots taking our jobs, he muses that this “will make everyone rich” via a “universal high income.” Don’t fall for it, folks. If AI and robots wind up in the hands of a few greedy billionaires, I strongly doubt if things will bode well for the rest of us.

The media

The mainstream news media used to be governed by an FCC policy called the fairness doctrine. Since 1949, it required TV and radio news broadcasters to present both sides of controversial issues “in a manner that fairly reflected differing viewpoints.” Instead of expanding the fairness doctrine to cover cable networks, it was abolished under the presidency of Ronald Reagan. This, as reported by the Poynter Institute, “accelerated the polarization of US media,” which, along with corporate deregulation, led to a few billionaires controlling just about all of the media not only here but globally, which is crushing democracy and human rights, as reported here and here. Among the top media billionaires is Rupert Murdoch, who owns dozens of outlets that include Fox News, the New York Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Times in the U.K. Elon Musk owns Twitter, now X, Mark Zuckerberg owns Facebook; and Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post.

As explained in this 2025 Yahoo News report, none of these billionaires are trained journalists. Instead, they rely on a sea of trolls, grifters, and pseudo-journalists who will spew their right-wing propaganda. Just about all of them are multimillionaires. Some examples: Fox’s Laura Ingraham, net worth: $40 million; Sean Hannity, also Fox News, net worth: $250 million; Ben Shapiro, Daily Wire, net worth: $50 million; Candice Owens, net worth: $5 million. But her husband, George Farmer, has a net worth of $10 million. Yes, there are centrist journalists and even some fairly liberal ones in the media. But they’re vastly outnumbered by the conservative right-wing ones. So, when you hear news commentators on Fox, Newsmax, etc., denouncing universal healthcare, keep in mind that all of them are so rich that they don’t need health insurance, so they don’t care. Their job is to put a happy face on economic and social policies that make the rich richer and the rest of us a whole lot poorer.

Government

The ultimate achievement of the enormous wealth of this planet’s billionaires is the capture of the U.S. government, along with the governments of other rich countries. Last year, Harvard University reported on a 2014 study conducted by Princeton and Northwestern Universities, which “concluded that the U.S. government represents not the interests of the majority of citizens but those of the rich and powerful,” which makes America “not a democracy at all, but a functional oligarchy.” And as explained in this 2023 study published by Cambridge University Press, “billionaires formally enter the political sphere at a much higher rate in autocracies than in democracies” and “have a strong track record of winning elections.” And in this 2025 article, CEO Today reported that Elon Musk is among the “billionaire puppeteers” who are “gaining control over global politics,” which “raises serious concerns about the concentration of power in the hands of a few individuals.”

In my country, the U.S., the corruption is too vast for words. Most of our U.S. congressmen and presidents, along with many state legislators and governors, must rely on wealthy campaign donors to get elected. Most of them like this rotten system because they can get a whole lot richer after they leave office by becoming corporate lobbyists, by getting a cushy corporate job, or by getting huge fees for speaking engagements even if they say complete gibberish. In exchange, the billionaires get to enjoy the tax breaks and tax loopholes that they lobby for, which allows them and the huge corporations they either own or control as major shareholders to pay little or no taxes, including inheritance taxes, so they can build their family dynasties. And they usually get away with crimes that would send the rest of us to prison, while they get governments to pretty much cater to their every whim.

Example: In this 2025 article, Yahoo Finance reported that the world’s two richest men, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, “didn’t pay a dime in federal income tax” in some years, along with Michael Bloomberg, Carl Icahn, and George Soros, just to name some. This, as reported in ProPublica, “demolishes the cornerstone myth of the American tax system: that everyone pays their fair share.” In other years, “IRS records show that the wealthiest can—perfectly legally—pay income taxes that are only a tiny fraction of the hundreds of millions, if not billions, their fortunes grow each year.” As for Donald Trump, a New York Times report revealed that he “paid just $750 in federal income tax upon entering the White House” in 2017 and “no income tax at all in 11 of the 18 years that the Times reviewed.” Investopedia and ITEP further reported that “it’s not unusual for large U.S. corporations to pay no U.S. income taxes despite making billions of dollars in profits.”

Example: Common Dreams and Democracy Now explained why Trump blatantly violated U.S. and international law by attacking Venezuela and abducting President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, who are now on trial in New York City for a litany of drug charges. But if Trump was really concerned about illegal drugs killing Americans, he wouldn’t have pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was serving a 45-year prison sentence for helping to drug-traffic “more than 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.” Turns out that the real reason is with Maduro gone, “Paul Singer, a billionaire who is a top donor to President Trump, is set to profit immensely since his investment firm purchased Citgo, the U.S.- based subsidiary of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company.” Right-wing organizations funded by Singer had been pushing for the ouster of Maduro, and Trump delivered. It’s that simple.

Example: In this 2022 article, City Journal reported that the COVID-19 lockdowns “brought little benefit and much harm.” They “hurt the economy, impeded education, and harmed the development of children.” In this 2021 article, Business Insider reported that “200 million to 500 million people” fell into poverty in 2020. But not to worry because Business Insider also reported that the world’s billionaires didn’t suffer any economic hardship at all. They “added 4 trillion to their wealth.” The World Economic Forum explained that “much of the financial gain for billionaires resulted from approaching the initial impact of the pandemic on asset prices.” In other words, “as assets like stocks suddenly got much cheaper, the wealthy were able to accumulate significantly more of them before they regained value. Most people don’t have the same type of access to equity markets as the wealthy.” And let’s also not forget that since Trump took office in 2025, the “10 richest Americans have gained 700 billion in wealth.”

Bottom line: nobody can work hard enough or long enough to earn a billion dollars, much less multiple billions of dollars. “Rent extraction, financial speculation, resource monopolization, and exploiting working people does,” as reported in Jacobin. And if the very wealthy do occasionally wind up in an American prison, many of which are torture chambers as reported here and here, not to worry. They have special luxury prisons prisons for millionaires and billionaires. That’s the way the mop flops in America. Country club prisons for the rich and brutal torture chambers for us peasants. Isn’t oligarchy just grand?

Divide and conquer

Since the billionaires who currently run things don’t want to share their wealth, which results in a much lower standard of living for just about all the rest of us, they manipulate the public into thinking that various minority groups are responsible for their problems. This creates an underclass of scapegoats to bully, persecute, and inflict unimaginable acts of cruelty on. Who that underclass is changes over time. For now, it’s immigrants, transgender people, and drag queens. It’s the oldest trick in the book: “Look at those people over there so you won’t pay attention to what we’re doing over here.”

To accomplish this cultural charade, they rely on their massive right-wing media echo chamber, which includes a whole army of YouTubers and podcasters who got rich spewing hate, lies, and propaganda. It is in this culture war arena that ignorance resonates, stupidity reverberates, and bigotry radiates. These usually multimillionaire grifters are a bunch of useless little parasites feeding off the bigger, even more useless billionaire parasites. In politics, a grifter is a con artist who uses the political process to enrich themselves. The Republican Party wallows in this grift like pigs wallow in mud because they have nothing to offer except tax cuts for the wealthy. So, they focus on made-up culture wars where they can assume a fake moral high ground and pretend that they are righteous and good.

The most effective way to make people fall for the scapegoating minorities con is by claiming that children need to be protected—especially when it comes to sex. This is the moral high ground of right-wing conservatism, its ivory tower of virtue. This kind of propaganda shuts down all logic and critical thinking because of our Christian culture’s discomfort with sex, as explained here and here. In the study of argumentation, this is known as the “think of the children” fallacy, which is an aspect of the “appeal to emotion” fallacy. Logical fallacies are errors in reasoning that lead to wrong conclusions. Since the sex is dirty and sinful paradigm is so ingrained in Western society, even non-religious people hold these core views, which makes the protecting kids fallacy so difficult to overcome. It shuts down rational discussion and prevents people from looking at the consequences of what’s being proposed.

Obviously, and of course, children need to be protected from sexual predators. But censoring the internet, watching porn, books in school, and being exposed to other lifestyles isn’t about protecting kids—it’s an excuse to take everyone’s rights away. It’s about control. This is more easily accomplished in a society of wealth inequality and economic hardship. When people are in survival mode, they are less concerned about protecting the rights of others and become more tribal. They are easier to manipulate. Billionaire oligarchs thrive on division and conflict. They don’t want the public to realize that culture wars are manufactured moral panics designed to distract them. Class warfare is what’s very real and what we need to unite against.

Last year, Erika Kirk, the late Charlie Kirk’s widow, made the ultimate Freudian slip. As reported here and in this video, she was “presenting the inaugural Charlie Kirk Courage Award to Utah University student Caleb Chilcutt,” when she said, “Despite the devastating loss of Charlie Kirk, my incredible husband at UVU, Caleb has persisted with the same grift.”

Naturally, Erika flubbed around trying to correct herself, uttering the word “gift” and then “grit,” and finally saying, “It has been a long day!” She then turned to Chilcutt and said, “Trust me, you’re not a grifter, honey. It’s all good.”

Sorry to tell you this, dear boy: in my humble opinion, Erika Kirk was totally correct when she called you a grifter.

So, to all of you xenophobes, racists, religious fanatics, and nice folks who don’t feel comfortable with those who are different, I implore you: Wake up. Instead of worrying about who’s picking your strawberries, worry about who’s picking your pocket; instead of worrying about who’s washing your car, worry about who’s taking you to the cleaners; instead of worrying about who’s working at Home Depot, worry about the fact that future generations won’t be able to afford a home. Instead of worrying about who’s in the bathroom, worry about your life being flushed down the toilet, because while you get to feel morally superior and think you’re defending civilization from the forces of evil and fruitcakery, your billionaire overlords are tearing civilization out from under you while laughing all the way to their offshore bank accounts.

What the future holds

Last year, the London School of Economics (LSE) reported “that the world is now on course for no less than five trillionaires within a decade.” Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Larry Ellison will most likely be among them. The first Gilded Age was bad enough. But with AI, Robots, and other kinds of futuristic technology, this second Gilded age could soon be much worse and won’t just affect our jobs as I mentioned previously.

Yuval Noah Harari, PhD, is a bestselling author, historian, and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. At this 2020 Davos meeting, Dr. Harari laid out the potentially diabolical future that soon-to- be trillionaire elites have in store for us:

“In the coming decades, AI and biotechnology will give us god-like abilities to re-engineer life and even to create completely new life forms. After 4 billion years of organic life shaped by natural selection, we are about to enter a new era of inorganic life shaped by intelligent design. Our intelligent design is going to be the new driving force of the evolution of life. And in using these powers of creation, we might make mistakes on a cosmic scale.”

In this 2021 60 Minutes interview, Dr. Harari warned that if these “new technologies are available only to the rich,” it could lead to “a process of greater inequality than in any previous time in history because for the first time, it will be real biological inequality…Homo sapiens will split into different biological castes” with “different bodies and different abilities.” In other words, we might see a whole race of humanoids that are much stronger, faster, and far more intelligent than the rest of us. Beings that might have a much greater life span and who are almost impossible to kill. Beings that will see themselves as gods among insects.

Another technology wealthy elites might use against us is optogenetics, which has the potential to restore brain function and cure diseases by genetically modifying targeted cells in our gray matter with light. But in this video on the World Economic Forum’s website, Nobel Prize winning Japanese scientist Susumu Tonegawa, PhD explained that with optogenetics, “our memory, our emotions, and even thoughts can be manipulated. This is the idea that has existed only in the realm of science fiction until recently.”

Please understand that I’m not anti-progress and technology. I recognize all of the benefits AI and robotics can give us. But it’s foolhardy not to recognize the enormous danger they pose in the wrong hands. And I have no doubt that in the hands of power-obsessed trillionaire elites, they will be used not only to control our lives but also our minds, our memories, our emotions, and reality itself. They will become too powerful for any of us to stop them. Of course, their plans could backfire, and these technologies might wind up controlling or destroying them along with the rest of us.

What must be done

In 1887, historian and politician Lord Acton (1834-1902) famously wrote that “power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Wealth is power, and giving the ultra-wealthy the power they wield is the equivalent of giving sadistic despots like Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) or Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) the abilities of Superman. Power is a drug. It’s a narcotic, a hallucinogenic drug that warps the mind and mangles the soul. And it’s addictive. The more you get, the more you want. As explained here and here, wealth/power retards one’s humanity and the ability to tell right from wrong.

Power over others is the reason why the police sadistically abuse and kill citizens; it’s the reason why prison guards abuse and kill prisoners; it’s the reason why politicians like Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu can callously give orders that mass murder Palestinian men, women, and children. It’s the reason why state and federal legislators can pass laws denying people vital medical care to serve a religious or political agenda. It’s the reason why employers and the managers under them, even in small businesses, abuse their employees.

Of course, not everyone who’s a billionaire or in positions of power will do terrible things. But many will because violent, angry, sadistic, manipulative, greedy types are the kinds of people who usually crave wealth and power and who far too often succeed in getting them. Therefore, we must, as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) declared in this 1936 speech about the danger of wealth inequality, “take away their power.” Here is how.

Get rid of all billionaires. I don’t mean kill them. I mean confiscate their wealth, which they didn’t earn, break up the corporate monopolies they control, and give those trillions back to the rest of us where it rightfully belongs. This would eliminate all poverty and economic hardship in developed and developing nations. Forget about a small billionaire wealth tax of 5%, like the one proposed in California. That’s kid stuff. It’s like putting a Band-Aid on a bullet wound. I’m for free enterprise and for talented and innovative people acquiring some wealth. But there has to be a limit. In my opinion, no individual or household should be allowed to have a net worth of more than $15 million. That’s more than enough to live a luxurious lifestyle. With the ultra-rich gone, we can then correct so much that is wrong in governments and create more just and peaceful societies and make sure that they stay that way.

It’s up to us, folks. The billionaires have the wealth, but we have the numbers. There are a lot more of us than there are of them. We must unite and put an end to this enormous wealth gap. We did it before, and we must do it again. If we don’t, we will lose our freedom, our identities, and even what it means to be human.

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