Posted on 07/17/2021 10:24:10 AM PDT by Pollard
There comes a moment in every good gangster movie when all of the villains come together in a remote hideaway to make nefarious plans. If the good guys are smart, this is the moment they swoop in and arrest everyone. In real life America, though, we consistently squander these opportunities, opting instead to sit back and gawk at the villains like a bunch of dazed paparazzi. It’s never too late to change that. ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ The Sun Valley conference is primarily known as a place where tech and media moguls gather to do a little fly fishing and strike multibillion-dollar merger deals, while various members of the financial press flit about the periphery of the resort like a bunch of tabloid hacks desperate for a snapshot of Mark Zuckerberg in the season’s latest fleece vest. More fundamentally, the conference is, like Davos, a mechanism for the concentration of wealth, dressed up as something friendlier. Here, America’s wealthiest mega-billionaires gather with the chief executive of America’s most powerful companies, the director of the CIA, and America’s most worthless pseudo-journalists (hello, Anderson Cooper) to develop the social and business connections that allow the top 0.00001% of earners to continue to accumulate a share of our nation’s wealth that already exceeds the famously cartoonish inequality of the Gilded Age of Rockefeller and Carnegie. Everything that happens at Sun Valley will contribute to the ability of attendees like Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Mike Bloomberg to increase their society-warping fortunes.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Just did a search. Nothing but leftist sources drooling over the attendees or a few others treating it like an episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.
If he doesn’t like the cake he is catching downstream from the engine of free market capitalism... then he should get a better vocation; or maybe invent, build and employ.
In America he has a choice.
Or perhaps he would be happier moving to Cuba hoping to snatch up a few pieces of cake dumped in the gutters and streets by the Castro regime that owns the peasants lives and labor.
In Cuba you don’t have a choice.
They probably sit around and eat hotdogs.
that’s the reality of capitalism. It’s better than Communism or any of the rest but it isn’t perfect either because evil and greed have obviously corrupted it
No doubt with ketchup.
or “pizza”
BARZINI
"Times have changed. It's not like the Old Days when we can do anything we want. A refusal is not the act of a friend. If Don Corleone had all the judges, and the politicians in New York, then he must share them, or let us others use them. He must let us draw the water from the well. Certainly he can present a bill for such services. After all, we are not Communists."
Is that George V or Czar Nicolas, his lookalike cousin?
Standing, from left to right: King Haakon VII of Norway, Tsar Ferdinand of the Bulgarians, King Manuel II of Portugal and the Algarve, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Prussia, King George I of the Hellenes and King Albert I of the Belgians.
Seated, from left to right: King Alfonso XIII of Spain, King George V of the United Kingdom, and King Frederick VIII of Denmark.
More kings than a good game of checkers...
LOL! I found this photo of the two of them together, cousins George and Nick:
George looks more like Nick than Nick does.
Victoria’s grandson is good looking there.
I thought he was dumpy looking.
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