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Robert Reich: billionaires are hoarders, not job creators

Original: RE: https:// masto.ai/@rbreich/117462774912 392753 …billionaires are hoarders. If it was pizza boxes, instead of money t

Former US labour secretary Robert Reich argues that billionaires are hoarders, comparing their unspent wealth to piles of pizza boxes: if money were visible objects, the scale of hoarding would be obvious to everyone. The comment, shared widely on Mastodon, frames extreme wealth concentration as a plutocracy problem driving economic stagnation and drawing criticism of the super-rich's failure to redistribute or invest their fortunes.

Why now: Ongoing public debate over wealth inequality and billionaire influence has made Reich's blunt framing resonate.

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• RE: https:// masto.ai/@rbreich/117462774912 392753 …billionaires are hoarders. If it was pizza boxes, instead of money they’re not spending, we’d immediately see the problem. (paraphrasing) For an interesting look at the plutocracy running the world into the ground, and how we… · hanspetermeyer@mstdn.ca · 4

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