{"id":19812,"date":"2025-03-27T20:56:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T02:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=19812"},"modified":"2025-03-28T11:13:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T17:13:32","slug":"frowns-upon-a-system-indeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/27\/frowns-upon-a-system-indeed\/","title":{"rendered":"frowns upon a system, indeed!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>pure wisdom from <a href=\"https:\/\/aminatou.substack.com\/p\/gentle-suggestions-50e?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;r=f7j3&amp;triedRedirect=true\">cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me<\/a> \u2014 i, too, am anti-billionaire (pro-millionaire, tho?):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Cr\u00e8me de la Cr\u00e8me is anti-billionaire and really frowns upon a system where a couple thousand people have basically everything and the rest of us have to vaguely hope that those people keep pushing humanity in the right direction and if they chose not to, we will not do anything about the system. I don\u2019t like it at all. Billionaires are a threat to democracy and it is obscene that we allow people to have that much money. Late capitalism blah blah blah but you should know I\u2019m kind of a hypocrite because I also absolutely love being in rich people\u2019s business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know these two sisters who are both married to billionaires\u2014yeah you\u2019re not the only one with billionaires in your rolodex\u2014and I often think about what their parents did right (or wrong?) because when I\u2019m not being my highest self, it does feel very calculated. But isn\u2019t all marriage a calculation anyway? And rich people marriages are the most calculated of the bunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pure wisdom from cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me \u2014 i, too, am anti-billionaire (pro-millionaire, tho?): Cr\u00e8me de la Cr\u00e8me is anti-billionaire and really frowns upon a system where a couple thousand people have basically everything and the rest of us have to vaguely hope that those people keep pushing humanity in the right direction and if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-19812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19812"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19819,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19812\/revisions\/19819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}