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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Idk about Musk but Gates, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Bloomberg, the Waltons and others donate billions to charity. Now you might think that’s not enough and want them taxed more, but there is too much discourse seeking to demonize others. The talk around Bezos’s wedding was especially ott considering they paid for all services and donated millions to the city. There have always been rich people who liked grandiose displays of wealth throughout history, it’s not new. And most did not care about poor people at all.[/quote]

Maybe there is something to the "Old Money" vs "New Money" stereotypes. Old Money seems more likely to subscribe to noblesse oblige, or at least see value in pretending that they do. [/quote]

Old money [b]seemed[/b].  They are all dead now.

Probably because they actually believed in a God.  Modern people are not religious and have nothing to fear for indulging in their worst appetites.[/quote]

They believed in God and a duty to their countrymen.  Also, and this is important, they faced a real threat of war.  As such, they needed to value their countrymen, who would be needed on the battlefield.  In the post-WW2 era of Pax Americana, there has been no threat, so Western Civilization has continued its 120-year quest to embrace all the dumbest ideas imaginable.

As demographics change, the nihilist pencil-whipping "elites" are eating all the civilizational seed corn.  We're watching institutions fail in real time (e.g., CDC lying about "vaccine" effectiveness about stopping transmission).  On the right, they see the causes and are starting to argue for reinstalling old rules.  The right is still too weak to do anything, but it won't always be so.  A new generation of elites will arise, and they'll look a lot like those of the days of yore.  [/quote]

You have been conned.  The new elite will look like those in Russia and Saudi Arabia (with the average US citizen being the equivalent of their migrant workers, not citizens).  The old old money will never come back.  [/quote]

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