# The Billionaire Bootlicker

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Podcast: [An Infinite Path](https://stenobird.com/podcast/an-infinite-path-739115)
Published: 2026-05-28T15:59:40+00:00
Episode link: https://www.nilesheckman.com/podcast/2026/5/28/wv4ld74kllrj99rgme2d48biwqn3og
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## Resource

The Billionaire Bootlicker Niles Heckman Download We once heard a conversation on a radio show hosted by a constitutional scholar, talking to a woman who called in while sounding like she was drinking Mountain Dew and eating Pop Tarts. He brought up the problem of medieval wealth mis-distribution, and he said the fact that we even have billionaires in the first place shows the sickness of our society. She couldn't even process that comment. Enter the Billionaire bootlicker - the volunteer infantry of plutocracy. The people who speak of tax havens with the reverence medieval peasants once reserved for psychotic syphilitic kings - they internalize the billionaire as a kind of cosmic parent, a stand-in for divine authority in a desacralized age. These people admire the kind of morbid wealth to the point that if you have 100 people on an island, 1 of them would have all the money and 99 would have no money, and even though they are one of the 99, still think that's a rational thing. These insight sub-episodes are mirrored on our primary YouTube channel which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/@NilesHeckman/videos

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