John McMahon
1 min readJun 28, 2021

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There are 614 billionaires in the USA, and 3,288 USD billionaires worldwide. Communist China has 389 billionaires, so Mao must be spinning in his grave. I don't work for or know any of them personally, but I don't believe that they can send armed men to my house to clap me in irons and haul me off to jail the way that government officials can. They just have money, not soldiers and cops. I don't consider billionaires heroes or villains, just more strangers that I don't care about because they have very little to do with me. Convince me that if they are brought down by some revolution that I will get one of their Lamborghinis, and I might change my mind and break out the ol' pitchfork. Or are you getting the Lambo? Convince me that I'll get a yacht and I'll oil up my assault rifle and load up my magazines right now. You lead the way, right to my new watercraft and palatial home. I hope it has a helicopter!

And please stop with the French Revolution already. It produced The Terror and the Emperor Napoleon, and didn't even get rid of the Bourbon dynasty as kings, since they returned to the throne after Napoleon. The common people were starving, not suffering from obesity. The fat loads of today would need oxygen tanks and folding chairs to rest on while they stormed the Bastille.

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