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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 23:24:42 JST Aral Balkan

   Billionaires are cancer.

   I won’t be taking questions at this time.

   #billionaires #cancer

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     Bob Wyman (bobwyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Jan-2024 04:44:09 JST Bob Wyman

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     @aral
     If markets were competitive and taxes were fair, we'd still have a few people with extraordinary wealth, but we would have no billionaires.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 12-Jan-2024 04:44:09 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Bob Wyman

     @bobwyman Maybe we need a better framework for guaranteeing the welfare of humanity than markets. Human rights, perhaps? Democracy? I find it a failure of imagination to believe commerce is the pinnacle of human achievement. We can be so much more than glorified fishmongers.