For my whole life, conservative politics has argued that letting rich people keep more of their money would, because of their rich-guy genius, redound to the greater good. That was always unconvincing, but we did it anyway and among other things it has delivered the absolute worst posts in history.
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FIFY.
What has the world got to???
Why is being rich a measure of genius anyway?
Seems like compassion at a genius level is more valuable to leading humans…
If The Gates foundation is great but they really seem to be holding on to as much of their wealth as possible for as long as possible where MacKenzie Scott seems like the more admirable model.
If conservatives were as much in favor of facts as they like to claim, they would have abandoned this like of thinking decades ago. Oddly, they didn't.