• Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de
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      21 hours ago

      Wealth cannot be detangled from power, so yeah, this is dead on.

      We can have democracy or we can have billionaires, we cannot have both

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      23 hours ago

      But he doesn’t even wield absolute power. The bit he does hold seems to have been enough.

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      20 hours ago

      Incorrect. Those that are corrupt desires and seek absolute power & wealth more than an normal person. We have a few people in history who did had absolute power & wealth and uses it to great benefit for his people.

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        Who in history had absolute wealth and or power and used it to great benefit for their people?

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          19 hours ago

          I’d like to know too, I strongly suggest this is a delusion. Although the saying is a cliché, it’s a remarkably correct statement.

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            Considering nearly every single one of their comments is about China and they said “his people” I think I have an idea that confirms that you’d be correct