Billionaires are not billionaires because they're smart.

https://lemmy.world/post/44006936

However, the enabling condition is anti-trust laws not being enforced.
…and the enabling condition for antitrust laws not being enforced is the existence of a capitalist class with enough wealth to direct politics.
They only managed it when they partnered with religious bigots. They were losing, the very existence of those antitrust laws is proof. Then they bought religion.
Yeah cause religion was all pure and good before it was “bought” in the mid-1900s. \s \s \s

For a time, American Christianity taught that rich people didn’t go to heaven.

It was still a net harm on society, but it was no fan of the rich assholes and robber barons.

That then was warped into Prosperity Gospel.