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They refused to publish it? Wow, thank you for finally giving me a concrete reason to hate TED talks. They've always seemed like the biggest fart-sniffing conventions I can imagine. And it drives me nuts how people all present with a certain cadence, intonation, tone of voice. Like some kind of learned artificial dialect, the "good public speaker" dialect/accent. A perfectly fitting marker of the incestuous masturbation so prevalent among the kinds of people who give TED talks. I'm not saying they're all bad, so no offense to anyone's favorite TED speaker. There's been decent ones, but its largely exactly the kind of elite Ivy League parasite that, remarkably, manages to be despicable to both conservatives and many liberals. No wonder TED didn't publish something that might make their own speakers feel bad.

interestingly, his later ted talk about basically the same topic is available on the TED channel.

"TED is complicit with oligarchs"

You say that, but if you have a large cache of cash, economic crashes are just opportunities to buy assets at a bargain.

They're so busy building survival bunkers....

Yeah, but if I tax trillionaires, what happens when I myself become a trillionaire?!

Whichever one it is, it should be taxed. Its whole family should be taxed. Its close servants ane security staff shoukd be taxed. Ajyone who enabled it shoukd be taxed. Taxed in ways both spectacular and public.

I don't know... the way people cheered Luigi tells me that most people are not okay with it - but that's never stopped the media and their political handlers before.

That's capitalism. I find the more of a capitalist someone is, the more they worship money and the more they idolize anyone with a lot of it.

It also seems to be the case that the further you are from capitalism and it's ideals as a person, the more you're willing to emphasize with those less fortunate and want to help them to succeed.

Weird huh?

I wish i felt that way. Maybe in 20 years, but right now these people are still on a high pedestal in the eyes of the majority. They’ve mastered the art of giving “just enough” to keep the masses at bay. It will take a catastrophe of epic proportions with billions dead or suffering and these rich mf’ers sitting high in their ivory towers before the masses will open their eyes. Even then we’ll be told to “pray” and they will give us a few more scraps to naw on (all while they “prey” on us to further widen the gap between us and them).

This is something that, of all people, Ivanka Trump has kvetched about in private — her infamy, her dad's infamy, her company's infamy, her wealth's infamy, and not to mention, her husband's infamy — has essentially procluded them from any social circles in NYC. They reportedly left politics because every single one of their friends would refuse to engage with them anymore.

One simple thing that brings me joy in a dark world is that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump can't make a single friend.

The only "bad thing" I can think that's remotely qualifying is that US billionaires are being left behind by their East Asian peers, as their home country is run into the ground.

Nah, billionaires have class solidarity that transcends nationalist sentiment. Which is why they are so afraid of anyone trying to gather class solidarity amongst the lower classes, they know how powerful it is.

Billionaires from East Asia and billionaires from the West all vacation in places like Dubai, have their own private islands, and multiple homes and banks all over the world. Nationalism to them is just a tool to keep class consciousness away from their employees.

Then somebody will just hack their death turrets and make them the targets.

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Also, they planed for the worst. They all have their little (or rather not so little) islands they can retreat to.