'As supreme court justice Louis Brandeis said in 1933: “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.” That warning is even more relevant today.' Bernie Sanders https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/24/bernie-sanders-opinion-billionaire-politics #uspol
@drrimmer history doesn't exactly repeat, but it rhymes...
"...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself."
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
Tired: "The system is broken and needs to be fixed!"
Wired: The system is working as intended and needs to be dismantled! The purpose of a system, is what it does.