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so you are saying nancy pelosi isn't respectable?!?!?

I have zero respect for all politicians regardless of what they have done

But the bigger point is that most of them should be in prison for a few different reasons

People like Nancy obviously insider trading

People like Ted cruise of Texas

Treason for putting the interest of a foreign nation before America

People like trump for their Epstein shit

People like jd Vance for their palantir shit with Peter thiel

Your upset about them being parasites and extracting value from productive people… that’s true

But it’s worse than that between corruption, treason, mass surveillance, covering up the largest child sex trafficking ring in history,…. War criminals killing innocent civilians and supporting the genocide in Gaza and Palestinian people

The list goes on and on

So yea they don’t deserve respect lol

But I’d argue that most of them deserve prison and the death penalty

Can you list them?

I used to have your exact sentiment.

You can make millions, 10s of millions maybe even a 100 by "creating value". Unfortunately the game is rigged.

In the current system to become a "billionaire" means monopolistic/parasitic and unethical antihuman practices. These are the people who buy politicians, to create regulations and contracts, that they feed of. They support the career politicians and unelected bureaucracy in an unholy alliance. You see this in pharma, mil industrial, big tech, big oil, big age, anything "big".

The world is messy. Risk taking is high, gambling is high, prostitution is high and money is being devalued. Governments are abusing power and paying themselves huge salaries.

It’s been seen before and it’s almost always associated with civilisation decline. Morals go down, the wealth gap grows and power entrenches to the corrupt.

We need this movement back towards values that serve the people and a sound monetary system that cannot be corrupted and extorted by those in power.

JB feels seen

Yep

"Billionaires creating value for society": https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/af92154b4fd002924031386f71333b0afd9741a076f5c738bc2603a5b59d671f/e281157e1db44a0cc0bc7f499d1d228b2944558e63449c866d964c1bc6dad27d.webp

Name one.

Because there's plenty of millionaires who actually add value to society but to become a billionaire usually means exploiting the system and using the government against your competitors to create a monopoly that people are forced to deal with.

Which to me negates any previous benefits they provided

“I Yes, but have you paid your quarterlies?”

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F the government!

Amen. 100% agree.

I have hatred for cumstain billionaires who suddenly become political once they have the billions. Not the open minded ones but the shadowy fyckers that run and fund public policy institutes etc to manipulate the system.

I hold both of those views simultaneously.

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So... sometimes and I would argue most of the times these billionaires are only billionaires because of ties with politics.. ill give you the playbook:

1. Make something good people want to buy

2. Grow enough so you have enough money to lobby.

3. Raise alarm on safety issues in your industry

4. Lobby politicians to create regulations only big company like yours can comply with.

5. Kill all competition via regulations, become a monopoly/ duopoly.

6. Print Billions.

I do not have a lot of respect for billionaires for this reason, in a free market such a sharp Pareto doesn't exist since competition balances things out.

So edgy, loves billionaires… hates politics 🥺🥺

What about billionaires who built their fortunes on the backs of government subsidies, contracts, and patents?

There’s only ONE billionaire we should respect

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