• droopy4096@lemmy.ca
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    10 days ago

    as article points out: that one person is supported by a whole class of Americans - the billionaires. And those in turn are supported by not insignificant portion of American population. So plural is very apropos here.

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        9 days ago

        businesspeople differ from billionaires in that they don’t get to impact policies and they don’t run multinationals milking both sides of the border

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          7 days ago

          Billionaires tend to be buisnesspeople, plenty of multinationals (most, actually) aren’t owned by a billionaire, and non-billionaires can run businesses that operate in multiple countries (again, probably most of them).