Cory Doctorow on Nostr: That's not the only way extreme wealth inequality creates political instability. Once ...
That's not the only way extreme wealth inequality creates political instability. Once the 1% are sufficiently wealthy, they capture government, and the only policies that can be enacted are those that don't gore some aristocrat's ox, and once the rich become *super* rich, they own all the oxen.
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