Extreme wealth is not independence. It is an unusually successful dependence upon everyone else.
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the strange ontology of power
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the value of nothing
The question is whether what we currently reward actually assists the capacity of civilisation to persist, adapt, repair itself, and create meaningful futures.
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wealth drag
Wealth is usually treated as evidence that society is working. But extreme accumulation may also reveal something stranger: a system increasingly organised around preserving wealth, whether or not that preservation still serves the world around it.
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billionaire welfare
Extreme wealth is not proof of independence. The billionaire appears to stand above society, but in reality stands upon it.
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what is economic reality?
Economic reality is not found in the cash register. It is found in the relational field that makes the register mean anything at all.
Australia’s political speed-dating with One Nation suggests that what has happened in the USA is not an exception, it is a franchised political method.
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