• OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    And once people have nothing left to lose and their families are starving they drag the rich into the streets and beat them to death with asphalt torn from the roads. History has repeated this scenario over and over again.

    As of 2023 there are 735 billionaires in the US, and 340,000,000 non-billionaires.

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        1 month ago

        Part history, part cultural differences. It would take quite the write-up to get into those two in relation to Russia, but that’s the short answer.