A photographic illustration shows the suspended Twitter account of US President Donald Trump on a smartphone in the meeting room of the White House in Washington on January 8, 2021.JOSHUA ROBERTS / REUTERS
It is not the first time that a small group of people have accumulated such extraordinary fortunes that their contemporaries can rightly say that they have never been seen before.
The Zuckerbergs (Facebook and WhatsApp), Bezos (Amazon), Gates (Microsoft), Page (Google) or Musk (Tesla) that triumph in the digital world were once called Carnegie or Frick (steel), Rockefeller or Mellon (oil). ) or Vanderbilt and Crocker (railways).
In all cases, one could say, as he claims ...
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