Today’s release is Lesson 9 — the final core lesson in the billionaire–climate series:
The Billionaire Feedback Loop — how all nine mechanisms reinforce each other.
This lesson brings everything together.
It shows how each mechanism you’ve learned about isn’t isolated — it’s part of a self-reinforcing system that concentrates wealth, accelerates extraction, and slows climate action.
This loop is the engine behind modern inequality and environmental breakdown.
🔥 What you’ll learn today
This lesson maps how each mechanism connects to the next:
- Cost externalisation → increases profits
- Monopoly power → suppresses competition
- Shareholder pressure → drives short-term decisions
- Equity wealth → magnifies CEO incentives
- Tax avoidance → preserves capital
- Lobbying → reshapes rules in their favour
- Debt leverage → accelerates expansion
- Public money → reduces risk and boosts returns
- All of this → increases billionaire wealth
- Which feeds back into lobbying, dominance, and more extraction
It’s not a circle — it’s a spiral, widening every year.
And the climate impacts escalate at every turn.
đź’¬ Your Activity for Today
Question:
Which part of the feedback loop feels the most important — or the most overlooked — in your view?
Possible angles:
- the role of lobbying
- the power of debt leverage
- the scale of public subsidies
- the pressure from shareholders
- monopoly’s effect on policy
- tax rules that reward capital over labour
- how environmental costs get pushed onto the public
Even short reflections help others see the system more clearly.
🌱 Tomorrow’s Drop