Demonize and dehumanize, Part III

We have to tax the billionaires out of existence

The ultra-rich, to my mind, are an abomination that should not be tolerated. This is because their existence is also the existence of pointless suffering and struggle by great numbers of human beings who are not the ultra-rich. To be ultra-rich, one has to do little to nothing to alleviate the poverty of billions of other upright apes, members of the same species with less access to resources that make life bearable, and sometimes even pleasant.

I weep for a species so blind it does not take care of its own members. Let alone the rest of the ecosystems on which it depends for long-term existence.

For some reason, AI likes to clone Elon. I asked for an image of specific evil billionaires and got two Musks.

In many parts of the world, inequality is spiraling out of control. The basic facts have become depressingly familiar.

In the United States, the top 0.1 percent now control about the same amount of wealth as the bottom 90 percent of the entire population. Globally, the richest eight indi…