If you truly believed that those people were as real as you are, you'd never be able to look yourself in the mirror. Whether it's Leona Helmsley's claim that "only the little people pay taxes," or Elon Musk's habit of calling people who disagree with him "NPCs," the whole ideological project of billionaireism is shot through with a kind of solipsism:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/05/fisher-price-steering-wheel/#billionaire-solipsism
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Cory Doctorow
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