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danaristoday at 11:21 AM0 repliesview on HN

But a high density of tech billionaires does prevent a regular family in Tennessee from putting food on their table, by increasing the poverty rates.

They do this by a number of mechanisms, including lobbying to reduce or end programs like SNAP, gutting labor protections, and various other political means; and more generally by making money in zero-sum ways (financialization of the economy means that people are getting rich by skimming off money from other people, rather than by creating value themselves).