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jmbar2

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5. Great framing of the issue

Reply to Joinfortmill (Original post)

Mon Dec 1, 2025, 01:50 PM

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That's the first step to coming up with corrective measures - identify the problem. Some frames portray concerns about wealth to be due to envy, or fairness. This is too soft.

Toxic wealth, parasitic wealth, or even necrophilic wealth jeopardizes the very survival of the planet we live on. It is a sickness, and we are in a pandemic of sick wealth.

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