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| + | Plutocrats amass their wealth by insuring that profits and ownership come to themselves, rather than more broadly to workers and governments as salaries and taxes. | ||
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| + | But there is no reason to think that plutocrats make wiser choices (on average) than the public would. They are simply patrons the way royalty was centuries ago, and prone to wasteful, vain and irrelevant funding choices. Or worse ideological and other sectarian funding aimed at cementing their own positions and wealth. | ||
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