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multigraincracker

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Wed Jul 2, 2025, 09:09 PM Jul 2

What's behind the "Eat the Rich" revival. [View all]

https://fisherald.com/the-provocative-force-of-eat-the-rich/

It needs to be said that there’s no such thing as an ethical billionaire; as seen from Bezos’ abuse of influence during the pandemic, there’s a crime behind every great fortune. Hence, ‘eat the rich’. 
It’s expected that every saying will become slightly distorted as it’s reverberated over and over again, especially on social media. It’s a lesson we all learned when playing the game ‘Telephone’ as children. Nevertheless, despite misinterpretation, the ‘Eat the Rich’ movement still fulfills its age-old purpose: drawing attention to drastic disparities between social classes.

Lets draw attention to it.....
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