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Palantir is a fantastically straightforward example of how a country experiencing an era of averice quickly degrades in the quality of its leadership. Karp and Thiel are examples of certain types of personalities that make their way into positions of influence where they start to expel toxic cultural pollutants responsible for an empire's decline.

More people need to realize the parasitic relationship the wealthy in America currently occupy.

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I'm wondering which of the PayPal mafia or other billionaires best represent Marcus Licinius Crassus taking food out of poor people's mouths and abolishing the republic for authoritarianism/oligarchy.



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