“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” – Peter Thiel, $27.5bn

“There’s been class warfare for the last 20 years, and my class has won” – Warren Buffett, $141bn

“We need to see unemployment rise. We need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around.” – Tim Gurner, $1bn

“I want my fair share—and that’s all of it.” – Charles Koch, $73.8bn

“If you were born poor, it was not your mistake. But if you die poor, it is your mistake.” – Bill Gates, $103bn

“AI will most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime there will be great companies created with serious machine learning.” – Sam Altman, $2bn

“I want to see people who are hungry. I want to see people who have to win to eat… Poverty is a great motivator.” – Barry Hearn, $1.3bn

“The 0.01% will have all the wealth. The remaining 99.99% will be ‘the useless class’ because their labor will have no market value…” – Vinod Khosla, $14.5bn

“We’ll have police cameras everywhere, and… citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting what’s going on.” – Larry Ellison, $179bn

“Legalize comedy!” – Elon Musk, $852bn

There are 3,428 billionaires in the world. There doesn’t have to be.

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