US Billionaires Are Running Scared

I would be scared too.

If we got together and started demolishing the intellectual case for free-market capitalism, what would happen then?

“PALO ALTO, Calif. — A perfect California day. The sun was shining, a gentle breeze was blowing and, at a Silicon Valley coffee shop, Rep. Ro Khanna was sitting across from one of his many billionaire constituents discussing an uncomfortable subject: the growing unpopularity of billionaires and their giant tech companies.

“There’s some more humility out here,” Khanna (D-Calif.) said.

The billionaire on the other side of the table let out a nervous laugh. Chris Larsen was on his third start-up and well on his way to being one of the wealthiest people in the valley, if not the world.

“Realizing people hate your guts has some value,” he joked. …”

We need start thinking about how to replace free-market capitalism and its twin pillars of support like political correctness and mass immigration culturally, economically and politically. Eventually, the train is going to leave the station as people begin to wrap their minds around the idea that the machines are generating wealth and displacing them in the workforce to the benefit of the Koch Brothers and Andy Puzders of the world.