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Comment by jollofricepeas

As stated in the book “Lessons of History,” this is what billionaires should be doing with the wealth that they’ve snatched from the poor, marginalized and unlucky.

When we started on this tech journey, the hope was for a better more equal world,

Instead we have the worst inequality since the Great Depression, mass surveillance on a global scale and the destruction of the middle class.

Inequality is a part of our society. Some are born with better genetics and opportunities in a lucky part of the world.

If you are lucky to become a billionaire your purpose is to serve humanity and redistribute that wealth to your workers and to society at large.

If not, the only eventual outcome is repression by the billionaire class or forced redistribution through violent revolution.

These are the lessons that history has taught us.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lessons_of_History

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