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It's always been that way though
Almost exclusively, in fact.
Not to this degree. Musk is the richest person ever to have lived. He’s got more money than most nations on the planet have ever had, comparatively. His wealth, power, and influence are obscene.
His wealth is currently growing at $14.75 million per hour. He could spend a million dollars every day for a thousand years and still be the richest person on earth.
I don’t think many people can fathom how extreme his wealth hoarding actually is. It’s literally mind-boggling. He could single-handedly solve the hunger crisis planet-wide and make a huge impact on the climate crisis, but instead he uses his money to fellate himself, take credit for others’ work, and ruin things.
In the past, kings and barons have only wished to have the money and power he wields, and this is what he’s doing with it. It’s absolutely shameful.
nah, it's a relatively new thing, like only found after ww2.
I don't think so. For example, isn't it believed that Rothschild was a large contributing factor to The War of 1812?
I'd imagine a lot of those "old money" families dabbled throughout history
By anti-Semitic conspiracy circles, yes. By anyone who has looked into these claims without being a conspiracy nut, no.
Quite a few supporters for independence in America's revolutionary war against England were quite wealthy, and stood to make very good money with an independent US. Hancock was one of them.
I don't know if I'd say that was the entire reason for the war of independence, but I think it was substantial enough that we can consider it an example in this case.
no, it is not, just because there was an economic incentive for some people during the revolution doesn't mean that it is comparable, if you want comparable, imagine if the of the richest Italians had replaced many of the American cannons with wooden fakes
I think it's somewhat comparable since the economic incentive was heavily skewed towards leadership vs the common person.
no, because the leadership actually did the fighting, unlike musk who just shut off service when daddy Putin asked him to