Todays 100+ #billionaires according to #Bloomberg:

#1: Elon Musk - $337B - USA/Tech

#2: Jeff Bezos - $222B - USA/Tech

#3: Mark Zuckerberg - $213B - USA/Tech

#4: Bernard Arnault - $172B - France/Consumer

#5: Larry Ellison - $168B - USA/Tech

#6: Warren Buffett - $167B - USA/Diversified

#7: Bill Gates - $163B - USA/Tech

#8: Larry Page - $148B - USA/Tech

#9: Sergey Brin - $139B - USA/Tech

#10: Steve Ballmer - $137B - USA/Tech

#11: Jim Walton - $108B - USA/Retail

#12: Rob Walton - $106B - USA/Retail

#13: Alice Walton - $105B - USA/Retail

#14: Michael Dell - $103B - USA/Tech

#15: Amancio Ortega - $100B - Spain/Retail

Total wealth: $2.39 Trillion

Full List: https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires

Money is pouring into Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election so fast that political observers now believe it is likely to reach $100 million by Tuesday, election day.

Already, it has become the costliest judicial race in U.S. history.

https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-race-most-expensive-us-history-elon-musk?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

"WhAt iF tHE BiLliONAiReS LeAVe??!!"
Is the most sycophantic, ignorant & moronic panic people come out with in this day & age.

Billionaires literally raided your economic systems. Got taxed less & less. Got preferential treatment like they were Royal. And if in the moment someone official decides to ACTUALLY tax them a little more they up and run, shutting down their whole wing of the economy, it kind of proves how bad they are.

Fuck billionaires.
#billionaires #Economy #money #politics #uk

Unlike the rest of us, the very rich live in their own ecosystems with gated communities, AC, filtered water, the best foods, vaccines and top notch medical care. That’s why they don’t care about the climate, famines, war and the growing number of natural disasters. And they certainly don’t care about the average person.

"SpaceX and the Foundation of Elon’s Empire"

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2425400/episodes/16831958-spacex-and-the-foundation-of-elon-s-empire-ft-lora-kolodny

#USA #Politics #Government #NASA #Trump #Musk #Billionaires #SpaceX #StarLink #Empire #Power #AeroSpace #DOGE

Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich by Chrystia Freeland, 2012

Forget the 1% - it's time to get to grips with the 0.1% ...There has always been some gap between rich and poor, but it has never been wider - and now the rich are getting wealthier at such breakneck speed that the middle classes are being squeezed out.

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#inequality
#billionaires
#plutocrats

"Throw these bums out": #AOC and #BernieSanders take their campaign against "#oligarchy" out west

Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders addressed thousands at their "#FightingOligarchy" tour stops in #Nevada and #Arizona

Sanders: “We will not allow you to move this country to an oligarchy. We’re not going to allow you and your friend Mr. Musk and the other billionaires to wreak havoc on this country. We’re not a poor country. There is no excuse on God’s earth for people to have to choose between food and the medicine they need to stay alive.”

By Griffin Eckstein
Published March 21, 2025

"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders hit the road this week to rally Democrats to fight back against President Donald #Trump and billionaire Elon #Musk’s 'move to an oligarchy.'

"The Vermonter and New Yorker each brought their #ProWorker stump speeches to the #southwestern purple states on Thursday, day one of a three-day tour.

"The pair's #LasVegas stop drew over a thousand people, per the Las Vegas Review-Journal, with supporters chanting 'primary Chuck' during AOC’s speech, referring to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. In #TempeArizona, the duo addressed a crowd of more than 15,000 between an arena and overflow attendees outside, the senator said on social media.

"Speaking in #Arizona, Sanders, whose 'Fighting Oligarchy Tour' has already touched down in #Wisconsin and #Michigan, homed in on the #billionaires he says are tightening their grip on the country."

https://www.salon.com/2025/03/21/throw-these-bums-out-aoc-and-bernie-sanders-take-their-campaign-against-oligarchy-out-west/
#ThrowTheseBumsOut #OligarchyTour #Resistance #ResistOligarchy #CorporateColonialism #USPol #CorporateFascism #StillSanders

It's going to get really ugly in USA, unless people stop the madness with much less uglyness. There is no clean way anymore. Some people might die or a lot of people Will die.

Josh Allen is the MVP of the NFL. Yes, the best player in the richest sports league in America!

He just got a new contract that pays him $55 million a year! Can you even imagine being that insanely rich?????

At that rate, he would have to play for about 6000 years to be as rich as Elon Musk.

The economy is supposedly doing well, but your #paycheck isn’t. #Billionaires add millions to their wealth every day, but you’re told to “just work harder.”

What if the problem isn’t you? What if the #system is designed to keep people struggling? What if billionaires and corporations were taxed the same way you are?

#UBI shifts the balance. It gives power back to #people instead of #corporations

Todays 100+ #billionaires according to #Bloomberg:

#1: Elon Musk - $303B - USA/Tech

#2: Jeff Bezos - $214B - USA/Tech

#3: Mark Zuckerberg - $206B - USA/Tech

#4: Bernard Arnault - $179B - France/Consumer

#5: Larry Ellison - $169B - USA/Tech

#6: Warren Buffett - $164B - USA/Diversified

#7: Bill Gates - $162B - USA/Tech

#8: Larry Page - $146B - USA/Tech

#9: Sergey Brin - $138B - USA/Tech

#10: Steve Ballmer - $135B - USA/Tech

#11: Jim Walton - $108B - USA/Retail

#12: Michael Dell - $106B - USA/Tech

#13: Rob Walton - $105B - USA/Retail

#14: Alice Walton - $105B - USA/Retail

#15: Jensen Huang - $101B - USA/Tech

Total wealth: $2.34 Trillion

Full List: https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires