"I alone can make deals with Ghina! Ghina will cave bigly! The best deals! Deals that are good for everyone, billionaires and multimillionaires alike, believe me!"
We pay for his health care, better quality than most millionaires could dream of. His team will keep him so full of drugs, and so many secret surgeries, he will live into his 80s. His brain will be last week's taco meat, but he will live.
"I don't need no one getting between a man and his betters! Why iffen I was in a union they might not let me work hard enough to support my six kids what we had cause Jesus says!"
My wife refuses to think about leaving. I won't go without her. So, I stay here, and one day sooner rather than later, Homeland or a private "militia" will break my door in, and i will go missing.
It's part of the Republican plan. Crash the economy, destabilize what little is left of our sense of community. Use the chaos as an excuse to end all public goods: education, health care, infrastructure. Then, while tech bros reap the benefits of technology, the rest of us exist as low-tech worker drones.
They are definitely up to something.