Welcome to Democracy Isham Tore.

And I'm Danielle Moody.

And someone we love, Rihanna, has become a billionaire.

Yes.

And salute to her.

She has conquered the beauty world in a way that as far surpasses what she did in the recording artist world.

She was a top recording artist, but she is a major business star.

But all of y'all out here celebrating this, like this is some communal victory,

I do not understand you, and we are not the same, because all billionaires represent the failure of capitalism and

millions of other people who must be poor so that the billionaire can sit on a gigantic

stack of money and we're going to go deep all through this on this show yeah i think that

in life not just like people want a fairy tale.

They love the fairy tale.

They love the idea of Cinderella scrubbing the floors and then magically she turns into,

ta-da, look at me.

I'm a billionaire, right?

Which would be the new Cinderella story in the 21st century.

She goes on Shark Tank.

Yeah, she sells her slippers.

And now it's on QVC.

So, like, I think that why people, particularly black people celebrate the billionaire status of a Rihanna, of a Kanye West,

is because their backstories make us believe that at some point in time,

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