Bread and CircusesLife without consumerism means enjoying...
Nicole ParsonsA billionaire looking at this graphic will hate it.
From their perspective, people should be spending their lives making millionaires into billionaires.
AI6YR Ben
cwicseolfor (has moved!)@ai6yr @Npars01 @breadandcircuses I have just enough schadenfreude in me for it to feel like an extra spice every time I relish these things.
But the other reason they hate it is they themselves don't understand it. They're so addicted to status games they have more money than they'll ever be able to spend, no involuntary limits on their lifestyle, yet *can't think of anything better to do with their remaining years* than seek more useless money. They've lost the plot of even *selfish* living.
@cwicseolfor @Npars01 @breadandcircuses Correct. Having (personally) spoken to some of these folks, whose greatest desire since they were children was to "make enough money so I never have to work again", and then they made a fortune that allows them to do that at age 30, and then they were "I really got bored... so I decided to start another company/make a billion dollars/because I hate golf"
Joe 
@cwicseolfor @ai6yr @Npars01 @breadandcircuses , they think it helps them to bury their ethics and morals.
@Antigrav @cwicseolfor @ai6yr @breadandcircuses
I read about zombie money left behind in trust funds, DAF's, & nonprofits.
The irreparable harms of intergenerational wealth & tax evasion
There's a reason why there used to be heavy taxation on estates
1. Bradley Foundation - founded by a loud & proud Bircher outraged by the onset of genuine democracy with the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
They spent 60 years & millions of dollars to convert democracy back into a white supremacist oligarchy
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Foundation
2. #KochNetwork - the $5 billion Charles Koch has set aside will fund decades of fossil fuel fascism & corruption of the judiciary.
That wealth will fry the planet & trigger wars.
https://popular.info/p/charles-kochs-5-billion-tax-loophole
3. Barre Seid's $1.6 billion in Irish tax evasion ended the civil rights of 167 million American women.
https://www.propublica.org/article/dark-money-leonard-leo-barre-seid
4. Scaife & DeVos funded the 2020 coup attempt.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/republicans-arent-done-rewriting-history-jan-6-attack-rcna185998
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5. Russian, Saudi, & Chinese billionaires now buy American corporations to meddle in elections & control which candidates are permitted to be elected.
Foreign cash got a dictatorship in the White House.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/28/saudis-kingdom-holding-company-to-maintain-twitter-stake
https://www.newsweek.com/who-konstantin-nikolaev-money-mike-johnson-1870600
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/09/crypto-super-pacs-ohio-montana-00146138
@Npars01 The theme to all of this is that the ONLY THING these people find validating is control over others, even beyond the grave: dominion. It's something I've gone into great lengths citing in our earliest and most intimate family politics, because it's instilled so young. Necropolitics and death cult are precisely correct.