More Billionaire Shit

The other day I mentioned a little something about billionaires carefully framing themselves now as the "oppressed, put-upon class" that we're all supposed to sit around and feel bad for. WHICH S INSANE!!!

I'm not really a "THE AMERICAN EMPIRE IS ENDING TOMORROW!!!!" guy, but this is alarming:

Some 573 people have joined the billionaire ranks since 2020, bringing the worldwide total to 2,668, according to an analysis released by Oxfam on Sunday. That means a new billionaire was minted about every 30 hours, on average, so far during the pandemic.

Between that and our determined desire to fetishize billionaires, desperate to not inconvenience their tender feelings even for a second (anyone who thinks Musk will be forced to pay the $1B fee if he pulls out of the Twitter deal is out of their goddam minds), the odds of pretty much every presidential nominee from here on out being one of the "bored billionaires" I've warned you about, we really are fucked. Maybe not "fucked" as much as well I guess that's just who we are now. For most of us, "the American Dream" (which has always been bullshit anyway) will now become "if you cheer as loudly as possible for all the billionaires then maybe something good will happen to you to!" (it won't). The combination of our already wanting to worship these people + their brilliant marketing to make us believe that they're the aggrieved ones is the perfect storm that will make Americans sprint to the polls to please these people, no matter how much it only screws their actual lives over..

Oh well. USA?