Extreme wealth is not independence. It is an unusually successful dependence upon everyone else.
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the strange ontology of power
Extreme wealth is not independence. It is an unusually successful dependence upon everyone else.
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.
Extreme wealth is not proof of independence. The billionaire appears to stand above society, but in reality stands upon it.
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.