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kentuck

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Mon Oct 7, 2013, 12:42 PM Oct 2013

Billionaires should be banned in order to save capitalism [View all]

Capitalism has a built-in mechanism that assures its own destruction. That is that wealth always concentrates at the top. It is like a gambling establishment - the house always wins.

The top 1% has more wealth than ever in the history of the world. There are more billionaires than ever in history.

Who needs more than a billion dollars? That wealth needs to be put back into our economy in a productive way. When 4 families have as much wealth as half our entire country, something is very awry.

Capitalism is destroying itself. We need to end the vast accumulations of weath if we want to survive as a capitalist country. We are well on our way to this end.

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