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People aren't going to riot if their lives are pretty good, regardless if others are cheating the system. Bread and circuses.
by kapp_in_life 5y ago
People aren't going to riot if their lives are pretty good, regardless if others are cheating the system. Bread and circuses.
- petre 5y agoNo, they're just going to try and cheat the system because 'everybody does it'. It sends the wrong message that corruption is okay. I like the photo of Ilham Aliyev and his wife though. He looks like a villain from James Bond movie.
- rcMgD2BwE72F 5y agoIt's unsustainable, so people are waiting for the system to collapse. A few will riot, some will try to accelerate the collapse and benefit from it, of course, but most will wait and see.
- maybelsyrup 5y agoI had a very similar thought. Kinda funny if it weren't so bleak.
- dmje 5y agoYeh, this is it. Soma for the masses in the form of Netflix, cheap fast food, booze, legal drugs…
- cto_of_antifa 5y agoDeep
- Igelau 5y ago> booze YMMV, but I'm 2L deep on local beer and it's not making me trust The Man yet.
- xboxnolifes 5y agoThe man doesn't care if you trust him as long as you aren't getting in his way.
- salawat 5y agoAre you out in the streets, or looking for the truth in the bottom of a bottle? If it isn't the former, the plan is working technically.
- namdnay 5y agoI agree with you on the first sentence, but I don’t think it’s necessarily bread and circuses. Just peace and prosperity. Pax Capitalisma if you will Bread and circuses was politicians getting into debt or Emperors dilapidating the treasury to buy the support of the masses, I don’t think that’s really the case here. It’s more that if people are prosperous and safe they stop caring enough
- salawat 5y ago>Bread and circuses was politicians getting into debt or Emperors dilapidating the treasury to buy the support of the masses, I don’t think that’s really the case here. I would like you to think about this paragraph. Now think about UBI. Now think about Modern Monetary Theory. I see an attempt at distinction without a difference.
- whakim 5y agoPeople kind of are rioting, though. The election of Donald Trump (and the rise of populist parties across Europe); the January 6th capitol riot; the Black Lives Matter movement - whatever you think of these things, they're all connected at some level to a deep-seated feeling of social injustice. Perhaps we're only at the start.