Cory Doctorow on Nostr: The problem of inequality isn't the expanding pool of rich people, it's the explosion ...
The problem of inequality isn't the expanding pool of rich people, it's the explosion of wealth for a *contracting* pool of rich people.
If conservatives were serious about limiting the grip of these "undeserving" Social Security recipients on our economy and its politics, they'd advocate for #InteritanceTaxes (which effectively don't exist in America), not the abolition of Social Security.
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