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In reply to the discussion: What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos's Private Retreat [View all]Farmer-Rick
(12,726 posts)Karl Marx describe it's ending.
There is a breaking mechanism. It's called a crash. It will either wipe out the economy so that all the billions are worthless, much like in 1929.
Because that wealth is an illusion. It's numbers on a piece of paper that the filthy-rich are not taxed on, on which they borrow money with, using those numbers as collateral. They don't have that money sitting in a vault. It's borrowed money and when the agency calls in it's loan, then everyone starts selling and it crashes. It's happened many times before.
Or....The downtrodden abused people rise up and destroy the filthy-rich and permanently alter the distribution of wealth like the 1300s Peasant's Revolt, American Revolution and French revolution. Like what Hitler, Mao Zedong, Castro and the Bolsheviks tried to do. Like what FDR did do. It's happened many times before.