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guillaumeb

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2. Uber, based on an App, made its creator a billionaire while

Reply to cali (Original post)

Sat Aug 20, 2016, 05:26 PM

Aug 2016

creating a few thousand jobs with no benefits, no guarantees, no future.

WalMart made billionaires out of the Walton family while employing a workforce of largely minimally compensated workers who often rely on welfare for survival.

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Today’s Tech Oligarchs Are Worse Than the Robber Barons [View all] cali Aug 2016 OP

No. They are not. Drahthaardogs Aug 2016 #1

You're ruining an ongoing meme that we're all laboring under the Hortensis Aug 2016 #3

I am in total agreement that the oligarchs are out of control Drahthaardogs Aug 2016 #6

Definitions matter, huge, Drahtaardogs. Hortensis Aug 2016 #8

We are not an oligarchy, we are not subjects, and we are far better than my ancestors Drahthaardogs Aug 2016 #9

+100. I don't think we differ at all in our worry Hortensis Aug 2016 #11

Uber, based on an App, made its creator a billionaire while guillaumeb Aug 2016 #2

Recommended! This is a dangerous trend that is mostly off our radar AikidoSoul Aug 2016 #4

BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! OLIGARCHY!!!!!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MohRokTah Aug 2016 #5

This has been the call with every major technological revolution. Not buying it. Adrahil Aug 2016 #7

The "Libertechians" imagine themselves to be Nietzschean Ubermenschen. Odin2005 Aug 2016 #10

I was married to one for 20 years.... alittlelark Aug 2016 #12

I'm sorry. Odin2005 Aug 2016 #13

Modern billionaires in general are also less charitable than their Gilded Age counterparts. HughBeaumont Aug 2016 #14