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phantom power

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4. examples:

Reply to JayhawkSD (Reply #1)

Thu Jun 19, 2014, 11:22 AM

Jun 2014

They can buy politicians (see: Brothers, Koch), so they control the future that way.

As mentioned in the OP, they can squirrel away their money, so their children, and children's children, never need to worry about money. That's another way of controlling their future.

I think it's worth pointing out, a la Krugman, that this is technically more like the 0.1%.

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What the American people really don't understand about the 1%. [View all] Yavin4 Jun 2014 OP

What does that actually mean? JayhawkSD Jun 2014 #1

I think the last sentence of the first paragraph Ron Green Jun 2014 #2

examples: phantom power Jun 2014 #4

It means their kids are on top. Guess where ours are to end up? Octafish Jun 2014 #5

It means that they will be a new royal class whose rule cannot be challenged by democracy Yavin4 Jun 2014 #9

They're not trying to create an economic aristocracy. Orsino Jun 2014 #3

They want to own the planet. The_Commonist Jun 2014 #6

And there is the answer. THE FUTURE. They know that our future has some real problems coming jwirr Jun 2014 #7

And again I will ask, wah does than mean? JayhawkSD Jun 2014 #8

They want to create a new economic royal class who cannot be challenged by democracy n/t Yavin4 Jun 2014 #10