Dan Wentzel 🏳️‍🌈Aug 10, 2023

Growing up Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher told us that capitalism went hand in hand with freedom and democracy.

Today we can see that capitalists can quite comfortably walk hand in hand with authoritarianism and fascism to maintain and consolidate their wealth and power.

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@danwentzel seems to be in the US, Italy, Brazil and some others.
In China and Russia, you can become wealthy if you stay silent. But even if you go along to get along, once you make generational wealth the party comes for it.
Aug 10, 2023 at 6:48pmWeb