Increasingly clear that this is the most important political fact of our time. Billionaires aren't just a policy failure, they're a democratic failure condition.
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Osita Nwanevu
The key thing is that this is true whether you believe they deserved or earned that wealth or not. That whole debate is irrelevant. Even if it were possible to legitimately earn $500 billion, we couldn't abide one person having that much power to dominate others normatively or practically.
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