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fromEsquire
3 days ago
Silicon Valley

The Tech Elite Sure Have a Boring-and Expensive-Idea of Immortality

Democracy is retreating as power concentrates among authoritarian leaders and wealthy tech billionaires, while efforts to eradicate death gain traction.
fromA Philosopher's Blog
3 days ago
Philosophy

Plutocracy Revisited

Plutocracy, rule by the wealthy, persists despite claims of democracy, as evidenced by unlimited corporate campaign spending and the emergence of a wealthy class.
Silicon Valley
fromEsquire
3 days ago

The Tech Elite Sure Have a Boring-and Expensive-Idea of Immortality

Democracy is retreating as power concentrates among authoritarian leaders and wealthy tech billionaires, while efforts to eradicate death gain traction.
fromThe Nation
2 months ago

From Epstein to Bezos, the Ruling Class Is Rotten to the Core

The release last Friday by the Department of Justice of roughly 3 million documents relating to the investigation of the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has created a bizarre blame game among billionaires. Epstein was able to commit unspeakable crimes on a mass scale for decades with only a slap-on-the-wrist punishment because he was rich and well-connected. The new files help flesh out our sense of his social world, which was top-heavy with plutocrats
US politics
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