In early December, Ray Dalio, the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, sounded the alarm over the class and power struggles that are tearing the country apart, saying the United States “is at an inflection point where it could go from internal tension. manageable for revolution and / or civil war. “
A few weeks and a new president later, and Dalio does not seem to be more optimistic about the country’s future prospects.
“I believe that we are on the verge of a terrible civil war,” wrote Dalio. “We are at an inflection point between entering a kind of fighting hell or returning to work together for peace and prosperity that addresses the great wealth, values and opportunity gaps that we are seeing now.”
He said, however, that he was “thrilled” with what President Joe Biden had to say in his inauguration last week. “It is consistent with the direction that history shows that the country needs to go,” said Dalio on Twitter TWTR,
on Sunday.
But will Biden and both parties do their part to narrow the divide?
“Good words and spirit are not enough,” added Dalio. “People will have to agree on how to make the pie grow and how to divide it well. This will require a revolutionary change. “
Here it is his whole storm of tweets:
Dalio, with a net worth of $ 18 billion, is the 46th richest man in the world, according to Forbes.