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👉Condemned to plutocracy? The relentless rise of US inequality👈

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Via #EduardoPorter / @TheGuardian

#ElonMusk is a beneficiary of #America’s lopsided prosperity – does the country have any appetite for redistribution?"

"#BenjaminFranklin liked to talk of #America’s “happy mediocrity” – a country with “few … so miserable as the poor of Europe … few that in Europe would be called rich”.1) And yet,...

theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j…

Condemned to plutocracy? The relentless rise of US inequality

Elon Musk is a beneficiary of America’s lopsided prosperity – does the country have any appetite for redistribution?

^{Eduardo Porter (The Guardian)}