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4. Yes.
Sun May 17, 2020, 05:18 PM
May 2020

Only now they are hyper-mega-super-ultra-robber barons.

The old school ones were nowhere near as wealthy, powerful and influential as the new ones. They merely set up the system for their inheritors in the best way possible, greasing the wheels for oligarchy and throwing bags of sand in the gears of The People's fledgling democracy.

Gosh, an old time robber baron would drool and then faint at seeing how much has been accumulated and owned now. It's a great time to be wealthy. The best ever.

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