trillionaire takeover

today a man revealed the startling fact that ten individuals–not corporations nor entire families–possess a collective wealth of more than 2.1 trillion dollars

20% of the ten are jeff bezos and elon musk

and mr. bezos kept the washington post from endorsing kamala harris, and mr. musk wreaked havoc on the government workforce with the astonishingly misnamed “department of government efficiency”

(fun fact: “doge” used to mean “chief magistrate of either venice or genoa”)

(funner fact: philip josé farmer once wrote the atrociously-punned-titled “the doge whose barque was worse than his bight”)

and aside from these two exceptional individuals, gigantic malign wealth was behind the atrociously misnamed “big beautiful bill” which by withdrawing humanitarian starvation relief and superfunding the gestapoesque goon squad known as ice is a prime cause of the deaths of legions of starvelings in general and renée nicole good in particular

so the trillionaire takeover is not exactly a force for sweetness and light

but it is easy to denounce

much more difficult is our task of fixing this defcon 5 dysfunction

and though i am but a tomato-slicing minor poet i have a modest proposal:

let us watch the every move, every gesture, every eye twitch of the super-wealthy

let us applaud the good things they do

why, mr. bezos alone, by giving his former super significant other a monstrous amount of settlement money, directly caused a miraculous, historical sea-change of philanthropy by her hand alone

and mr. musk told the world that his former bud donnie was in the epstein files big time

and mr. warren buffett, though not in the ten mentioned above, is a powerhouse force for good

let us gamble that those that have all the gold would much rather act benignly than malevolently

let us life-hack their resolves into working for the good of humankind

so that they compete for attaboys

and care about something other than money