A Plutocrat's Nazi Rant
Tom Perkins’s odd defense of the rich distracts from the income inequality debate we need
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Let’s stipulate one thing upfront: Comparing your problem to the Holocaust is always a bad idea. There was only one, and nothing happening in the U.S. today is comparable to it.
Tom Perkins, a founder of the venture capital company Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has managed to intensify the illogic of this category error in a way that almost defies belief.