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85. To Be Rich (Should Be A Crime) by Jeb Loy Nichols 

THE BILLIONAIRE is by far the deadliest invention since the atom bomb. 

Billionaires have kindled a collective desire to create even more wealth for themselves by entering politics. Their newspapers, lobbying, and financial support shape how many of us think. At best, supporting the protectionist principle of maintaining tax loopholes. Depriving each country of hundreds of millions. At worst, supporting expansionism, dirty money, archaic orthodoxy, and war. 

Consequently, we now have a political class utterly obsessed with transferring as much wealth from the very bottom to the very top. Poverty used to be concealed, but now the folk down on their luck are visible everywhere as warnings to the rest of us. In reality, they represent the tragic fallout from generations corrupted by greed.

We have banks, energy firms, and supermarkets, with one star ratings on trust pilot, yet are still lumbered with them accessing our most prized data. We  wouldn't go near a plumbing firm with a one star rating though. This fanciful idea of competition creating choice looks more and more like a myth. 

    

We now have a totally discontented workforce that looks at MP's salaries agog as they rise with inflation repeatedly. This double standard also occurs whenever most politician's lips move coz they simply can't be honest about just how corrupt everyone in their world now is. Almost every successful business has added an uncreative layer to their costs, producing nothing but cuts whilst encasing workers in an environment of fear. 

That this layer has wormed its way into our health service is truly tragic. Many people will die and this utterly greedy and corrupt modern day politician, a mere spokesperson for its billionaire paymaster, will blame our health care professionals. 

Our only choice, it seems, is whether to swallow their shit or not. Please don't.