HOW the super rich will impoverish you and your kids
April 17, 2025
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The rich are growing their wealth very
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rapidly and it's acting like a black
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hole in society. It's sucking the wealth
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I saw immediately that that wouldn't
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stop. I saw because just just explain
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how that happens. Wh why does the wealth
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appeared in the in the Times richest
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people top 100 richest people in the
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country um wealth of 700 million. I
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think what people often don't realize is
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is the passive income that comes with
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million, what's his passive income and
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when I say passive income, I mean that
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the income he gets just from his wealth,
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not from his work. You know, he's going
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a million a week. So imagine you wish
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and you're making half a million passive
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Not a lot of it. You spend, you know, 50
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grand a week, live like live like the
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queen. Basically, I could have spent 50
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grand a week if I tried, right? So, the
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of society with very large passive
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economy, they basically have nothing
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they can do with that income other than
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interest. If you have the wealth of the
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rich growing at 5% in an economy that's
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the economy and they squeeze everyone
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else out. And what ordinary people see
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is house prices going up, stock prices
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house. And what that is is the rich
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squeezing the middle class out. It's the
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