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Midnight Writer

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11. Ain't meritocracy grand?

Reply to Kid Berwyn (Original post)

Fri Jun 12, 2026, 12:08 PM

Friday

This is just the beginning. Soon he will have three trillion, four trillion, more.

The sky is the limit.

He won't be the only one. Other billionaires are racing to get their trillions, too.

If we don't act to stop this, there will be about a dozen people owning 90% of our country's wealth.

Is that what we want? Are these people really each the value of tens of millions of regular working folks?

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