States that will be hardest hit if ACA subsidies lapse

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67. Very few of them have lived or run a business in the Real World

The majority came from families with money or connections; upper "middle class" professionals or outright wealthy. I would almost say none of them actually worked, if they did work, it was more for the adventure or experience, not for actual survival.
Musk and Theil, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Altman, Ellison, the others...all had fallback options if they failed throughout their lives. Whether it was government subsidies or the gift of BS-ing idiots with lots of money.
And they collect parasitic acolytes to support their curation of reality. Because - Money begets money.
They never had to considered the majority of people who couldn't or didn't want to join their "vision". Or if they did consider them, those people are useless and not worthy.

To the Tech Bros, the True Believers, the Investor/Money Manager types, people are fungible - consumers, resources, pawns. Basically, if you don't have the money or power base to be the undisputed hero of your own story, you're just an NPC...so no, they don't realize what will happen when large amounts of people can no longer afford to buy not only shitty products, they can't afford the basics - food, shelter, clothing...
When the world becomes a wasteland.