On 7/24/2020 6:53 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
A pandemic is global and international. This is a case where we can make money for nothing, and invest it in fixing the economical problem. The entire world should use the pandemics as an opportunity to give to everyone a universal allocation, and then let everyone becoming as rich as they want,
That sounds good, and it would be fine if rich people simply indulged their personal tastes. But money is also a form of power and inevitably some of the ultra-rich use their money to buy influence thru media (Ruper Murdoch comes to mind) and political campaigns to (a) make themselves richer and (b) to infect society with their crackpot ideas (Sheldon Adelson comes to mind).
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