We once heard a conversation on a radio show hosted by a constitutional scholar, talking to a woman who called in while sounding like she was drinking Mountain Dew and eating Pop Tarts. He brought up the problem of medieval wealth mis-distribution, and he said the fact that we even have billionaires in the first place shows the sickness of our society. She couldn't even process that comment.

Enter the Billionaire bootlicker - the volunteer infantry of plutocracy. The people who speak of tax havens with the reverence medieval peasants once reserved for psychotic syphilitic kings - they internalize the billionaire as a kind of cosmic parent, a stand-in for divine authority in a desacralized age. These people admire the kind of morbid wealth to the point that if you have 100 people on an island, 1 of them would have all the money and 99 would have no money, and even though they are one of the 99, still think that's a rational thing.

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