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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’ (www.theguardian.com)
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Naomi Klein’s new book starts on a mountaintop with two “faithful men gathering an audience to share their vision”. It’s a vision of a paradise city, gated at every entrance, no need for weapons there, everyone in it rich. One of the men has tears in his eyes as he describes its beauty. The opening scene of End Times Fascism, co-written with Astra Taylor, is not a metaphor, however. The men are Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. The year is 2026, the mountain is Davos. The paradise city will be called New Gaza.

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[–] 7 points 2 weeks ago

or our system works such that deranged individuals get to the top. Like me. There is an amount of money where Im sure I would stop trying to make any more. Once I had enough to live a comfortable life and could sustain it even if my money earned no interest relative to inflation until I was like 100. I would stop trying. Its kinda hard to fall into that exact amount so there should be some excess that I could use to help people.

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