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Throughout history the powerful have embraced philosophies that justified and reinforced their power. It should be no surprise that our tech elite has found a philosophy that blesses their accretion of wealth and power as the ultimate good for society.

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> philosophy that blesses their accretion of wealth and power as the ultimate good for society.

While "accretion" works. I think you were looking for "accumulation". Only because "accretion" implies it's gradual or "over time". Or possibly not. idk.

Ah I just have a nasty habit of using GRE words with no benefit to precision and some loss to comprehension and accuracy!

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