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How Saudi Money Returned to Silicon Valley

Jonathan Guyer Vox
All the ways Saudi Arabia’s cash powers tech startups and venture capital. In two years, MBS poured at least $11 billion into US startups, making it the industry’s largest single investor.

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This Week, Billionaires Made a Strong Case for Abolishing Themselves

Anand Giridharadas New York Times
One after another, four of our best-known billionaires laid waste to the image of benevolent saviors carefully cultivated by their class. It is a commendable sacrifice, because they exist only because we embrace certain myths about them.

Bill Gates Can’t Save the Planet

Grace Blakeley Jacobin
Bill Gates is making the rounds promoting his plan to solve climate change. But his new book ignores the fact that the same capitalist system that made him rich is the one killing the planet. We need a working-class environmentalism.
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