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America's richest people are not its most generous [View all]
Last edited Mon Feb 16, 2026, 05:30 PM - Edit history (1)
If you want to understand why rich guys are turning back to eugenics and recreating the rhetoric and theology of slavery, it’s because they know on some level this level of wealth inequality is unjustifiable bsky.app/profile/marl...
— Adam Serwer (@adamserwer.bsky.social) 2026-02-16T18:06:39.556Z
Applegrove: I wonder if this least generous bunch of tech bros are so stingy because they actively don't want the poor or the middle class to thrive lest the poor and middle class notice the horrid inequality and fight to change things. If you are burdened by poverty, struggle, illness and death you can't very well fight back. So no charity for you. Total class warfare.
— Jake Grumbach (@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social) 2026-02-16T18:05:14.065Z
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