Seems more like a world where everyones fucking dead at the rate things are going. Then again if we've learned anything in recent years its that other than manipulation skills most billionares are fucking idiots.

It's not just being on the top. Their wealth guarantees they'll live in a different cast to the end of their lives.

At this stage, it's a compulsive need for hoarding more and controlling everyone else, as they strongly believe their wealth entitles them to do so.

This is an oligarchy regime.

Authoritarianism is spreading like wildfire

The entrenched neoliberal post-Cold War consensus is cracking up.

But anyone who told you that the Reagan Era global order wasn't authoritarian sold you a box of rocks.

Upper middle class Americans are getting a taste of life outside the bubble. This is what "democracy" has felt like in The Philippines and Brazil and Ferguson, MO for some time.

They are using their essentially bottomless pit of money, influence, and resources to shape a world where they are permanently definitively on top.

When were they not? Do you think the folks fucking kids on Epstein's Island twenty years ago weren't doing the exact same thing?

When you snip away the social safety net, drop the illusions of "friendly neighborhood police officer", and abandon any effort at mitigating the ecological consequences of capitalist expansion, this is what you get.

Joseph Guillotin looking down on us like, “ I gave you the tool you fools”.

"Fair and square" is a bit of a stretch..

Buying TV commercials and Facebook comments isn’t really bribing anyone. They actually own the media apparatus. They own the two party system. They bought it fair and square. They don’t need to bribe anyone because they completely control every aspect of society. People willingly vote for them. There’s no bribes being handed out on election day.

This is the only trickle down theory I know to be accurate.

And as you said, it’s effective too.

He bought the presidency

That was a good (and satisfying) thing, but it's not reasonable to expect the Streisand effect to be a reliable deterrent to this worldwide authoritarian power grab.