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Ditch the rich

New Zealand Listener

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June - 1-7 2024

A neighbour recently told me he's going Jeff Bezos-free, a decision that resonated with me immediately, as I have long resented the cone-headed tycoon for stealing the name of the world's mightiest river to drown the rest of us in his lucre lust.

- Jonathan Kronstadt

Ditch the rich

But it also made me think how best to not add to the obscenely bloated coffers of the world's complement of, at present, 2668 billionaires.

Now, even I don't have time to research that many mega moneyed humans, so what follows is my effort to break up with 10 of the richest on the planet. Here goes:

1. Elon Musk. For me, erasing Musk is downright joyful. Teslas are overpriced and, in my unscientific but keenly observed anecdotal survey, their drivers are the leading producers of road rage. As for SpaceX, even as a kid I didn't want to be an astronaut and figured those who did were just hoping to get really far away from their families.

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