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potone

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11. You are right!

Reply to Locrian (Reply #7)

Tue Aug 13, 2019, 03:55 PM

Aug 2019

There was an article in the New Yorker awhile ago about this. It focuses on Peter Thiel, but made the point that billionaires not only feel entitled to their wealth and reduced tax rates, but they also feel entitled to be loved for them!

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