Watch how radically taxes on the wealthy have fallen over the past 70 years: (Full column: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/06/opinion/income-tax-rate-wealthy.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage …)pic.twitter.com/dGxmOjQ1b5
The actual money amount probably doesn’t matter as much as the normalization of lack of checks and balances on certain types of power. Leads to an increase of “well what can you do shrugs” throughout society. Apathy increases, caring reduces. Attention becomes easily manipulated