HaHaHa! You're concern is disingenuous and hypocritical. These 3 democrats, Gates, Bezos and Buffett have more wealth than 50% of the US population. Amusing that you are all for unbridled capitalism when it is democrats that are being attacked but you have nothing to say when the shoe is on the other foot.
The 3 Richest Americans Hold More Wealth Than Bottom 50% Of The Country, Study Finds
Society shouldn't allow one of its members or one family, to have so much power. Money is power under a capitalist market-based, economic system, and in a democratic society where a small % of the population holds practically all of the wealth, it will have its democracy undermined. This will always lead to cronyism and imperialism, not to speak of gross income inequality and a low standard of living for most people.
The capitalist pursuit of profits is insatiable and inevitably results in the exploitation of cheap sources of labor abroad
(including cheap labor domestically in the form of illegal immigrants and prison inmates working for $1 daily) and of the paying consumer in the country that purchases the products produced by that cheap, foreign labor
(both the labor and the paying consumer are exploited). We're in the cannibalistic, imperialist stage of capitalism, which is the last phase of its lifespan, when automation technology begins to replace wage-labor, forcing the working-class to choose between techno-serfdom or adopting a non-profit, socialized, and democratized mode of production
(a.k.a. high-communism). If the working class chooses the former, then it will be consigned to slavery only temporarily until the wealthy ruling elite figures out a way to consign them to the compost heap.
Ironically, the former capitalists and ruling elite that will remain in power when jobs are replaced with advanced automation technology, will themselves adopt a non-profit, socialized, and democratized system of production among themselves. They will become the surviving, thriving class, living in a high-tech, modern democratic communist society that employs a non-profit system of production. They don't need human employees anymore to work for them, to produce all of the goods and services they consume and use. There will be no more paying consumers or markets, thanks to advanced automation technology.
So either the working class
(94% of the population), takes the reins of power and ownership of the technology
(the means of production/facilities/robots..etc), owning it together, collectively, using a non-profit system of production to produce all of the goods and services that they consume and use,
OR ironically, the rich capitalist, ruling elite
(6% of the population) will be the ones who become the high-tech, democratic communists. They will enslave the masses
(the working class, their former employees that they no longer need), and eventually eliminate them, through various means. War, drugs, imprisonment, disease, starvation..etc. The so-called "herd" and masses of humanity that used to sell their labor-power to capitalists, will be "culled", and dispatched. They (94% of the population), will be rendered worthless under the domination of the wealthy ruling elite (6% of the population), due to advanced, 21st-century automation technology. This technology can be a blessing to humanity, provided it's in the hands of the commons i.e. public.
If the rich capitalist class is in control of the technology and means of production, then the working-class is doomed to serdfom and extinction. If the working-class rise up and takes the reins of power and wealth, making it a publicly owned property, under the people's control and adopts a non-profit system of production, employing all of the advanced technology to produce everything people consume and use, then humanity will survive and thrive.
The so called "born-again Christians" on this forum, with few exceptions, really don't care what happens to humanity in the future, because they're members of a death cult that expects the world to end in armageddon. Jesus is supposed to return and impose his absolute monarchal rule upon all of humanity. He's going to throw all of the Hindus, Muslims, Atheists, into the lake of fire. So these people are irrational, misanthropic, pessimistic towards anything that seems to exclude their exchatological fantasies. These conservative religious folks are essentially sick
(mentally, emotionally, spiritually.etc). But thank goodness that people are waking up to that fact
(including myself at the age of 49, soon to be 50). I started attending a secular, universalist church and I find the people there are much more humane and interested in the good and success of others, than in the Evangelical church I used to attend.
