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Jane's avatar

Brutally honest and very depressing. The money that these billionaires have could be used to help humanity. Instead with their insatiable greed for power and their flawed psyches, they plot our doom.

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Mary Varner Hutto's avatar

This is printed twice.

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Gerry's avatar

The e-mail version is doubled up but the website version is ok.

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Karl Olson's avatar

Tax the rich.

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daniel sherman's avatar

You present such a prescient view—I believe you even convinced AI and it printed it twice to try to wake us up.

The question now is how to try to change the course of this river;

What beyond voting ( and writing to our legislators to “ wake up and smell the coffee” can we do-or join

Meanwhile I might try some fly-fishing so I can feed myself in the future the oligarchs are delivering

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CJ's avatar

Outstanding and depressing in equal measure. We need to wake up and smell that Walmart coffee.

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Joan Morse's avatar

It's the Human Race Tim. We were doomed from the start. Cannot help ourselves.

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Rose's avatar

Such a well written, well sourced essay and it all seems so depressingly unstoppable at this point. I'm in my late 60s and I really feel badly for younger people. If I were in my twenties I do not know where I would go with my life. I think the best path to take might be to learn a vocational skill (plumbing, electrical, auto mechanics, etc.). Forgive me, but this was hard to read first thing in the morning and I kind of just want to go back to bed.

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