Really well said.
There are a couple corollaries to that which always come to my mind:
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In the US, we’ve privatized (enormous) profit and socialized (profound) losses. Think about where the money went from the 2008-9 financial crisis. Think about the lives and businesses that were decimated. Think about where the bailout money came from. Think about where the overwhelming majority of the economic recovery $s went;
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The wealthiest Americans almost surely don’t pay anywhere near the taxes they’d like us to believe they do. So we directly underwrite their shenanigans, and ensure they live long lives in unimaginable opulence when they’re done shitting all over the board. Meanwhile – statistically – it’s a virtual certainty that they haven’t done anything of consequence to subsidize the mess they’ve created or help to ameliorate the misery they’ve wrought.
Per capita, the British get off ridiculously cheaply when it comes to subsidizing their royals – at least compared to Americans.
[Hopefully, only slightly OT]