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I Was Taught From a Young Age to Protect My Dynastic Wealth

A common ideology underlies the practices of many ultra-wealthy people: The government can’t be trusted with money.

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Hasnain says:

Scathing. There were a few really good quotes in here but in the end I had to go with the conclusion.

“What’s shocking about the ProPublica report is not just that the tax bills are so low, but that these billionaires can live with themselves.

If your comfort requires that society be structured so that a decent percentage of your fellow citizens live in a constant state of terror about whether they’ll get health care in an emergency, or whether they can keep a roof over their family’s heads, or whether they will simply have enough to eat, perhaps the problem does not rest with those people, but with you and what you think of as necessary, proper, and acceptable.”

Posted on 2021-06-20T21:07:13+0000