Amanda

Our first one.

And you're not going to believe this bullshit about billionaires.

I've wondered for a long time why we are not talking about billionaires, our societal lust and adoration for them, their extreme stranglehold ownership over the economy, the media, and the government.

It's the reason we are in this godforsaken train wreck of an era.

So today we are pulling back the curtain on the entire political theater playing out in front of us.

Why are billionaires?

Who are the billionaires?

How did they happen?

Who is paying for billionaires' right to exist?

Why do we praise them as philanthropic heroes instead of preventing their inane hoarding of what should be collective prosperity?

We are diving into the different roles, written and unwritten, they play by.

What created our cultural obsession with them?

I mean, I think we should be obsessed with billionaires, but for very different reasons than we are.

First, I need us to understand what we are talking about when we are talking about billionaires.

We tend to refer to millionaires and billionaires.

The fact is that a millionaire is closer economically to a minimum wage worker than to a billionaire.

This is what a billion is.

If you earned one dollar every second, you would reach one million after 11 and a half days.

To get to a billion dollars, you would need 31.7 years.

If you earned $100,000 a year, you would earn a million after 10 years of work.