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jaxexpat

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7. The rich will buy their privileges. They will assume their entitlement. Fall will come after summer.
Sat Sep 5, 2020, 06:24 AM
Sep 2020

There is a direct proportion between the proliferation of gated communities and for-profit prisons. The rich will seek to normalize and thus secure their privilege. There is a tipping point wherein a democracy cannot survive the economic stresses of inherited wealth.

I am just old enough to realize this one fact, events which people consider impossible will definitely happen. It's the "when" that so often limits the usefulness of that wisdom.

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