Billionaire executives have long been lauded by the corporate media as unfettered heroes advancing human progress. But the first year of Donald Trump’s second presidential term should dispel any notion that wealthy CEOs will save us from the twin crises of creeping authoritarianism and intensifying global climate chaos.

Today, many of these supposed icons have wasted little time groveling to Trump as he consolidates new levels of centralized power to advance a far right agenda and doubles down on climate-destroying fossil fuels. I’m not speaking of the openly reactionary oligarchs like Elon Musk or Peter Thiel, but of the likes of OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, and BlackRock’s Larry Fink, who in times past have directly or indirectly cr

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