FOR DECADES, the ultra-wealthy have confidently commanded that we believe in the comforting (for them) fairytale of meritocracy — the notion that a billionaire is simply someone who worked a million times harder than a nurse, a teacher, or a cleaner.
Yet, if you spend even a casual afternoon reviewing the architectural, media and psychological footprints of the actions of the global “elite” over the past 40 years, a profoundly different narrative emerges.
They are not the self-assured and serene masters of human destiny that they pretend to be. They are terrified.
3 Comments
Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 8d
doubt it... they aren't cowering yet
Wren@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 8d
They are building bunkers, I call that cowering.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 8d
Some are building bunkers, some are heading for space, some are creating fleets of yachts. That video game guy has 7 yachts, including one medical yacht. He obviously plans on taking his little fleet as far from civilization as possible.