Hi everyone, After ten days of lessons — and a bonus lesson to tie it all together — the entire Billionaire Mechanisms course is now complete and ready for you to explore at your own pace. This series looks beyond headlines and personality stories and focuses instead on the systemic mechanisms that create extreme wealth — and how those same mechanisms shape our politics, our economy, and our climate future. To make it easy to review everything in one place, I’ve created a single-page visual summary of all 10 core lessons + the bonus lesson. It’s included below. This sheet gives you a quick snapshot of: - how companies externalise costs - how monopolies emerge - why shareholder pressure matters so much - how CEO wealth is amplified - how tax avoidance is structured - how lobbying shapes the rules - why debt and leverage accelerate growth - how public money fuels private gain - how all these mechanisms reinforce each other - what this means for the climate - and whether ethical billionaire wealth is possible It’s a map you can refer back to anytime. 👉 You can now access the full course here 💬 I’d love to hear from you As you revisit the lessons, I’d be interested to know: Which mechanism surprised you the most — and which one feels most connected to the climate crisis? Your reflections help others see the system more clearly, and they shape what we build next inside Has2BGreen.

Today we’re releasing a special bonus lesson in the billionaire - climate series: Is Ethical Billionaire Wealth Possible? — separating personal virtue from systemic design. This lesson tackles the question that almost everyone asks at some point in the series:“ But what about the good ones?” “What about the generous billionaires?” “Can’t someone be rich and ethical?” This lesson gives a clear and grounded answer — and it reframes the entire conversation. 👉 Start the lesson here: 🔥 What you’ll learn today In this lesson, we explore the difference between personal ethics and system requirements. You’ll learn why billionaire status requires: - global scale - very low marginal costs - labour arbitrage or automation - externalised environmental costs - tax-minimising structures - financial engineering - favourable political conditions …and how each requirement functions like a filter, removing ethical pathways and rewarding extractive ones. The key insight: A person can be ethical. A billionaire cannot be created ethically inside the current system. The system is the issue — not the individual. We also explore what this means for climate justice, democracy, and the future of wealth. 💬 Your Activity for Today Question: Do you think billionaire wealth could ever be ethical — or does the structure of the system make that impossible? Why? You might reflect on: - the role of lobbying - global labour inequality - environmental costs - tax rules - shareholder pressure - monopolies - subsidies and public money - the difference between giving money away and how it was made - Even a short reflection can open up a powerful discussion.

Today we’re releasing the final lesson in the main billionaire–climate series: What This Means for Climate — how all nine mechanisms shape the world we are now living in. This lesson pulls everything together. It shows how billionaire wealth doesn’t just coexist with the climate crisis — it requires and accelerates it. Not through individual intent, but through the structure of the system. If you’ve felt the pieces building across the last nine days, today they click into place. 👉 Start the lesson here 🔥 What you’ll learn today This lesson ties all nine mechanisms back to climate action and climate risk. You’ll learn how: 1. Extreme wealth requires extreme extraction More materials, more energy, more emissions. 2. Cost externalisation pushes climate costs onto the public Floods, fires, pollution, health impacts — all shifted outward. 3. Market dominance slows the clean-energy transition Monopolies protect the status quo. 4. Shareholder pressure intensifies environmental harm Short-term wins trump long-term climate stability. 5. Tax avoidance weakens society’s ability to prepare and adapt Less money for resilience, protection, infrastructure, and justice. 6. Lobbying shapes the rules that shape the climate Regulation is slowed, watered down, or blocked entirely. 7. Debt leverage fuels expansion of high-emission industries More drilling, more extraction, more global supply chains. 8. Public subsidies keep harmful sectors alive Fossil fuels, aviation, shipping, and industrial agriculture. 9. The billionaire feedback loop accelerates everything More wealth → more influence → more extraction → more emissions. This 10th lesson shows the full picture: billionaire wealth and climate justice are structurally incompatible. Not because billionaires are bad people. But because the system demands behaviours that harm the climate. 💬 Your Activity for Today Question:

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. 👉 Start the lesson here 🔥 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. 💬 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 Lesson 10: What This Means for Climate — how all nine mechanisms shape the world we are now living in.

Today we’re releasing Lesson 8 in the billionaire–climate series: Public Money → Private Gain — how subsidies, tax breaks, and bailouts quietly fuel billionaire wealth. Most people imagine billionaires as “self-made,” but the data shows that modern wealth depends heavily on government support — not just during crises, but constantly. This lesson brings the unseen flows of public → private wealth into full view. 👉 Start the lesson here 🔥 What you’ll learn today In this lesson, we explore how public resources are used to stabilise, expand, and amplify private wealth: 1. Subsidies Direct support to industries like: - fossil fuels - aviation - agriculture - shipping - banking These reduce corporate operating costs by billions every year. 2. Tax Breaks & Incentives Programmes designed to “stimulate growth” often end up: - boosting shareholder returns - reducing corporate tax burdens - undermining public budgets 3. Bailouts When corporations take risks and fail, governments step in to rescue: - banks - airlines - auto companies - energy providers Losses are socialised. Profits remain private. 4. Public Infrastructure Roads, ports, research funding, internet infrastructure, legal systems, education, healthcare — all form the foundation on which billionaires build their fortunes. 5. Welfare Top-Ups for Low Wages When companies pay wages too low to live on, taxpayers fill the gap through: - housing support - food support - child tax credits - healthcare subsidies - Companies save money. The public pays instead. 💬 Your Activity for Today Question: Where do you see public money supporting private companies in your country, city, or daily life? You might think of: - subsidies for fossil fuels - government handouts to failing companies - infrastructure built for corporations - low-wage employers whose workers need state support - industries that receive constant bailouts - special tax deals for big business