Comparing the #uberrich to the #gildedagebarons is almost an insult to the latters. #Musk , #Ellison , #Koch , etc., are way worse in terms of #capitalist brutality and #corruption .

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/meet-the-new-bosses-worse-than-the?publication_id=277517&post_id=202048275&isFreemail=true&r=64je9j&triedRedirect=true

The thing about being a #trillionaire even the world's first one ...in addition to a whole lotta people hating on you ...is that, in a way, it's all fake.

I mean, you can't withdraw all that money from a bank, and stack it up on your table in $100 bills; you can't even turn it all into gold coins and go swimming thru it like Scrooge McDuck. Some war or an earthquake or frozen o-ring or a blocked strait could happen tomorrow and suddenly you're back to being a mere billionaire again.

Sure you could, in theory, give good health care to everyone in the US, or end a pandemic or famine, but that would take selling off stocks ... and if you sold off that much stock quickly enough to fund something that would (gasp!) help other people, you'd crash the stock markets.

So better not to gloat about your new label. Best not to strive for it in the first place.

At least in my own worthless opinion.

#uberrich #TheOnePercentOfTheOnePercent
#WealthIsFleeting

So, this is a timely topic! From the latest issue of #InTheseTimes! The connection between Amazon Deforestation and CEO land grabs in the Western United States -- bought with blood money!

Fortress Yellowstone

The #UltraRich are fortifying themselves inside one of America’s last intact #ecosystems—with money plundered from ecological #SacrificeZones around the world

by Joseph Bullington, April 6, 2026

Excerpt: "Some of these ultra-rich ranch owners celebrate the natural beauty of their land and are ardent conservationists when it comes to the Yellowstone ecosystem. In digging into their business dealings, however, I found that most of these landowners accumulated their wealth through industries that help drive the destruction of nature elsewhere. Their ranks include private equity investors, oil and gas billionaires and real estate developers. "

[...]

"Now, instead of forests full of fruits and animals and mandioca clearings, industrial soy plantations press in on #Açaizal like a closing fist. There is no escape from the onslaught of #monoculture. Manoel shows me where rows of broken cornstalks run right up against the edge of the community’s soccer field, which the soy farmers also want to plow. The soybeans and corn, like those in the United States, are genetically engineered to withstand the #herbicides and #pesticides the farmers dump on them to beat back weeds and pests, but the chemicals drift, says Manoel, making it impossible to grow fruits and vegetables and #mandioca nearby. The streams run low and full of poison."

Read more:
https://inthesetimes.com/article/yellowstone-billionaires-conservation-montana-deforest-amazon

#Billionaires #UberRich #CEOs #AmazonDeforestation #BigAg #SoybeanProduction #IndustralSoybeans #PoisoningTheAmazon #GMOs #Monoculture #Deforestation #Cargill #HomeDepot #SoyPlantations #SaveTheForest #SaveTheRainforest #Earth4All #DSA #DemocraticSocialism #ReadItBeforeItsBanned #TaxTheRich #NoTaxHavens #EatTheRich #YeetTheRich #BigCorporations

Why Luxury Units in Manhattan Are Vacant - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/american-housing-has-gone-insane/605005/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

#realestate #bubble #manhattan #newyork #homelessness #gentrification #uberrich