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Chris Hedges — The Rule of the Uber-Rich Means Tyranny or Revolution

It is essential to understand the pathologies of the uber-rich. They have seized total political power.… The uber-rich live in an artificial bubble, a land called Richistan, a place of Frankenmansions and private jets, cut off from our reality....  Political theorists, from Aristotle and Karl Marx to Sheldon Wolin, have warned against the rule of the uber-rich. Once the uber-rich take over, Aristotle writes, the only options are tyranny and revolution.… Corporate capitalism, which has...

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