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The reluctant millionaires

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Is Wealth Inequality a Disconnection Drug?

Even wealthy people are aware that they live in a society where you could fall all the way to destitution. I think rich people like me have got to start looking at the world outside their wealth bubbles. Wealth is a disconnection drug that keeps people with wealth and privilege away from others. We'll never have enough wealth if we just think we're all alone. It's important to have people who'd be on the pointy end of the Pitch Forks saying that wealth inequality is unjust as well as the people wielding the Pitch forks. Ultimately, we need a broad mass movement against inequality that changes the rules of our democracy.

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