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- "Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Making Sci-Fi Real" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tech-billionaires-need-to-stop-trying-to-make-the-science-fiction-they-grew-up-on-real/ 90 comments
- Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tech-billionaires-need-to-stop-trying-to-make-the-science-fiction-they-grew-up-on-real/ 2 comments
- Hedge-fund billionaire Ray Dalio says capitalism needs urgent reform https://www.marketwatch.com/story/founder-of-worlds-biggest-hedge-fund-says-capitalism-needs-urgent-reform-2019-04-05 84 comments
- WeWork Needed a Bailout, But Adam Neumann Still Leaves a Billionaire https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-22/neumann-clings-to-billionaire-status-after-wework-gets-a-bailout 31 comments business
- Do Billionaires Really Need To Be Subsidized? http://www.iowawatch.org/2018/02/08/do-billionaires-really-need-to-be-subsidized/ 36 comments politics
- We Don’t Need Another Billionaire Businessman Candidate https://truthout.org/articles/we-dont-need-another-billionaire-businessman-candidate/ 114 comments politics
- Billionaires Desperately Need Our Help! https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/15/opinion/trump-tax-plan-billionaires.html 3 comments politics
- Bernie Sanders: We Need People to Stand Up to Billionaire Class, Corporate America http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/12/26/bernie-sanders-we-need-people-stand-billionaire-class-corporate-america 2093 comments politics
- Help! A billionaire wants to meet me and I need VC advice... https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/4m0czg/help_a_billionaire_wants_to_meet_me_and_i_need_vc/ 22 comments startups
- The EU is directly threatened by American billionaires. We need to stand united more than ever. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly74mpy8klo 182 comments europe
- Sanders camp on Bloomberg: 'More billionaires' not 'the change America needs' https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/469531-sanders-camp-on-bloomberg-more-billionaires-not-the-change-america-needs 117 comments politics
- Do we need billionaires? Ocasio-Cortez forces a conversation on the place of the superrich https://news.yahoo.com/need-billionaires-ocasio-cortez-forces-conversation-place-superrich-100007745.html 801 comments politics
- Ministers of Germany, Brazil, South Africa and Spain: why we need a global tax on billionaires https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2024/apr/25/ministers-of-germany-brazil-south-africa-and-spain-why-we-need-a-global-tax-on-billionaires 27 comments germany
- Jeff Bezos just became the first person on the Forbes 400 list with a net worth of $200 billion…and we’re still arguing about whether the billionaires need to be taxed. https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1445467613782368264 74 comments economy
- Do we need a 28th amendment to limit campaign funds from corporations and billionaires? http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/do-we-need-28th-amendment-limit-campaign-funds-corporations-and-billionaires#stream/0 1536 comments politics
- Can Sen. McConnell find a billionaire desperately in need of an Obamacare tax cut? http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-healthcare-vote-taxes-20170629-story.html 4 comments politics
- 10 Things You Need To Know About Betsy DeVos, The Billionaire Heiress Trump Is Appointing Secretary Of Education https://www.yahoo.com/news/10-things-know-betsy-devos-225415388.html 11 comments politics
- Crypto billionaire Mike Novogratz says DeFi networks need to tighten their security before regulators come knocking https://np.reddit.com/r/defisignals/comments/o7hvtc/crypto_billionaire_mike_novogratz_says_defi/ 11 comments cryptocurrency
- After Billionaires Gained $1 Trillion in Wealth, Says Sanders, It Is Not 'Radical' to Demand More Stimulus Checks | The American people cannot wait any longer. They need economic relief now. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/18/after-billionaires-gained-1-trillion-wealth-says-sanders-it-not-radical-demand-more 979 comments politics
- When the Billionaire Family Behind the Opioid Crisis Needed PR Help, They Turned to Mike Bloomberg https://www.propublica.org/article/bloomberg-sacklers-opioid-crisis-public-relations?utm_source=pardot&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations 3 comments politics
- When the Billionaire Family Behind the Opioid Crisis Needed PR Help, They Turned to Mike Bloomberg https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/when-the-billionaire-family-behind-the-opioid-crisis-needed-pr-help-they-turned-to-mike-bloomberg 12 comments politics
- When the Billionaire Family Behind the Opioid Crisis Needed PR Help, They Turned to Mike Bloomberg https://www.propublica.org/article/bloomberg-sacklers-opioid-crisis-public-relations 23 comments politics
- American unions have been decimated. No wonder inequality is skyrocking: Something urgent needs to be done to give America’s workers more say in our politics so that their voices are not dwarfed by billionaires https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/15/valuing-corporations-over-workers-has-led-to-americas-income-inequality-problem 47 comments politics
- The Billionaires' Tea Party (Proof Tea Party Is Nothing But Astro Turf). America needs to understand that this movement is designed to have them support policies against their own interest making them nothing but indentured servants. http://egbertowillies.com/2011/04/14/the-billionaires-tea-party-proof-tea-party-is-nothing-but-astro-turf.aspx 4 comments reddit.com
- For a Racism-Free 22nd Century, We Need a Billionaire-Free 21st - The dead hand of grand fortunes past is still poisoning our present. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/06/21/racism-free-22nd-century-we-need-billionaire-free-21st 167 comments politics
- Billionaire Richard Branson says he needs a government loan to keep Virgin Atlantic afloat and uses private island as collateral https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/20/richard-branson-says-he-needs-government-loan-for-virgin-atlantic.html 18 comments nottheonion
- 'All You Need to Know': Biden Reportedly Weighing Billionaires Michael Bloomberg and Jamie Dimon for Cabinet Posts https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/09/all-you-need-know-biden-reportedly-weighing-billionaires-michael-bloomberg-and-jamie 13 comments politics
- All You Need to Know': Biden Reportedly Weighing Billionaires Michael Bloomberg and Jamie Dimon for Cabinet Posts https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/09/all-you-need-know-biden-reportedly-weighing-billionaires-michael-bloomberg-and-jamie 469 comments politics
- Hedge-fund billionaire Ray Dalio says capitalism needs urgent reform https://www.marketwatch.com/story/founder-of-worlds-biggest-hedge-fund-says-capitalism-needs-urgent-reform-2019-04-05?mod=mw_theo_homepage 18 comments politics
- This Billionaire Mega-Donor Gets It: The Democrats Need Bernie Sanders https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/07/17/billionaire-mega-donor-gets-it-democrats-need-bernie-sanders 29 comments politics
- How Sheldon Adelson shows the need for campaign finance reform - A billionaire extremist is buying his way to the top of the GOP. Thanks again, Citizens United! http://www.salon.com/2015/09/09/plutocrats_have_captured_it_all_how_sheldon_adelson_shows_the_need_for_campaign_finance_reform/ 6 comments politics
- "Americans need to have less things in life" says billionaire after flying on a private jet to Davos with his wife, kids and two nannies. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2921522/americans-need-things-life-says-billionaire-jeff-greene.html 12 comments worldnews
- We Need to Know Who Funds These Thinktank Lobbyists. The battle for democracy is becoming a fight against backroom billionaires seeking to shape politics to suit their own interests. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/02/21 54 comments politics
- $8.5 Trillion in Untaxed Assets: Data Shows Why 'We Need a Billionaire Income Tax' | "While most Americans predominantly live off the income they earn from a job—income that is taxed all year, every year—the very richest households live lavishly off capital gains that may never be taxed." https://www.commondreams.org/news/rich-untaxed-wealth 265 comments politics
- “All the Covid stay-at-home stuff has tricked people into thinking that you don't actually need to work hard" said the billionaire oligarch who has received billions in federal loans and tax breaks. That is, other people's money. He is mocking the entire working class straight. https://twitter.com/failedevolution/status/1530661849569558528 2643 comments economy
- Capitalism has resulted in just 2000 billionaires now hoarding 60% of the planet’s wealth so why would anyone (besides these 2000 billionaires) continue to defend a system that produces this much inequality? Capitalism is one hell of a drug that humanity needs to detox from asap. https://twitter.com/ProudSocialist/status/1433115796809601027 922 comments economy
- Game Changer Could Cause Ethereum Price To ‘Blow Up’ Say Mark Cuban. This Is The Top Quality Shilling For Eth We Need From The Billionaires Club. https://dailyhodl.com/2021/05/10/mark-cuban-says-game-changer-could-cause-ethereum-price-to-blow-up/ 21 comments cryptocurrency
- Billionaire Bill Gates, Billionaire Carlos Slim, Billionaire Zuckerberg, Billionaire Cohen, and several others billionaires met with politicians in private in Davos. Wait. Why do the owners of giant multinationals need to meet politicians in private? http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/23/is-davos-excuse-for-1-percent-to-have-bonding-session 10 comments europe
- "The wealthiest nation on earth is not actually obliged to starve our senior citizens. We don't need a military 670% more expensive than the next largest one on earth. We don't need to fund health insurance corporations instead of healthcare. And we don't need tax breaks for billionaires..." http://www.counterpunch.org/swanson07202011.html 590 comments politics
- FOX's Shep Smith: "Who's going to hold these people's feet to the fire? We're able to pay for tax cuts for billionaires who don't need them and it's not going to stimulate the economy. But we can't give health care to Ground Zero first responders who ran right into the fire?" http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/12/fox-news-shep-smith-wallops-gopers-for-911-responders-bill-its-disgusting-video.php?ref=fpb 229 comments reddit.com