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Take a Moment to Feel the Pain of the Rich

Danny Dorling · 6 Aug 2026

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  1. Our reading

    No one makes the equivalent of a billion dollars alone.

    Their wordsUnder any reasonable definition of the word “made,” no-one “makes” the equivalent of a billion dollars alone. No one ever has.

  2. Our reading

    The idea that extraordinary talent deserves extraordinary compensation is a threadbare myth justifying inequality.

    Their wordsThe idea that extraordinary talent deserves extraordinary compensation is our modern-day justification for an increasingly thread-bare myth about inequality.

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