Who got to decide? The corrupt politicians, also in a US context it would be the justices that voted in support of Citizens United, and the people behind the Citizens United organization. It’s a weird question to ask though, as if somebody just decided political corruption would be a thing.
I’m not going to claim to have all the answers, but I would say the corruption and influence of money in politics is the first thing to stop. Get rid of corruption and tolerance of money in politics, then policies to address inequality could have a chance. Fail to deal with corruption or money in politics and taking out the guillotines won’t fix things. How to do that starting from where we are? I’m not sure. Maybe via an anti-Trump kind of character, riding a wave of populism into office but with a sincere drive towards a society of well-distributed benefit and a hated of corruption. 🤷♂️
In the course of my life I have happened to be friends with a few billionaires/members of billionaire families, and a number more in the 9-figure class. They are not substantially more shitty people than what you find at much lower net worths imo. Some are really well-intentioned. Also, some are just born into that wealth. Nonetheless, the inequality they are part of is destroying society. Also, sociopaths or even just selfish people empowered by that amount of wealth and surrounded by easily corrupted systems are very dangerous and harmful. So, I don’t harbour hate for billionaires themselves just because they’re billionaires, but the co-existence of such extreme wealth relative to the rest of humanity is a disaster that needs to be ended.
Men must really have weak hands, feet, eyes, and skulls compared to women, and be much harder to see. Sounds rough.
I really don’t yet see what the strategic interests being served in this are. An airbase in the US is a strategic liability for Qatar, and just a weird thing for the US that seems unnecessary. I’ve yet to read a really good analysis of this, but it’s a really remarkable turn of events. Whatever is behind it, I would like to understand.