Number of billionaires globally soars by 13% amid AI shares boom — Billionaires’ wealth grew by 25% on average in the year ended in April, research from Swiss bank UBS finds

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Meanwhile my 80 year-old dad was driving for DoorDash to survive, borrowing my car, until he started dying in February.

My mom still does.

I don’t know how anyone in the poor and working class is still capitalist, but this fucking bullshit is why the socialists are about to tea party the Democrats in November.

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires” - John Steinbeck

No.

It never took root because they killed them (Huey Long) and imprisoned them (Eugene Debs). The ones they couldn’t kill or imprison were intimidated into silence. (Red Scare, among others.)



Must be some variant of Stockholm syndrome

“fun” fact, Stockholm syndrome doesn’t exist. it comes from the fact that some of the hostages in a particular situation felt that the police constantly attempting to escalate were a greater threat to their safety than the people who took them hostage, and wanted them to just negotiate instead of repeatedly trying and failing to do swat-style raids of the building. this perfectly reasonable reaction couldn’t be allowed to be presented in the media, so they made up a fake psychological condition to explain it


I think it’s more akin to indoctrination. “You, too, can be independently wealthy if you work hard enough. Just look at these very abnormal billionaires!”




People: WE DON’T WANT THIS AI SHIT

Billionaires:


Sigh

The UBS Report, that the whole article appears to be based on.

I don’t know why the Guardian had choosen to get this sloppy with this article.

For the OP who posted this article here, this article doesn’t seem even related to technology.

I don’t know what to say.


At this rate of growth we’re all going to be billionaires soon!


The voting turnout at least where I am was still abysmal for the primaries. There were some positive results still. I want these candidates pushing HARD for taxing the rich and corporations. Enough of this BS.


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