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Democracy will take care of the "Superrich" (that will probably include most people on HN)
by VMG 7y ago
Democracy will take care of the "Superrich" (that will probably include most people on HN)
- mschuster91 7y agoI seriously hope so, but I doubt it. The problem is that we have ever more militarized police and, thanks to digitalization, basically a real-life 1984 scenario. Our German Interior minister actually wants access to Alexa and friends for the secret services.
- KozmoNau7 7y agoIf the issue of massive inequality isn't taken care of, we are headed for even more of a cyberpunk dystopia than we are already living right now.
- m12k 7y agoI just hope we do it sooner, using regulation and taxation, rather than later using pitchforks. But if the superrich keep successfully distracting the populace with bigotry and other sideshows, we might miss that exit.
- Kaiyou 7y agoPitchforks won't work. The superrich learned from history and own private armies. Also, they don't live in the same town as the people with the pitchforks. Possibly not even the same continent.
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoThey live within marching distance of some people with pitchforks. Beverly Hills isn't that far from Watts. Midtown Manhattan isn't that far from Harlem. And so on.
- Kaiyou 7y agoYou and I have very different concepts of "superrich".
- yepguy 7y agoPay no mind to the sinister undertones.