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I'm not sure why they think they'd be safe with such a thing. A billionaire is only a billionaire if there's a society to be richer than 99.9999% of everyone e
by cduzz 3y ago
I'm not sure why they think they'd be safe with such a thing.
A billionaire is only a billionaire if there's a society to be richer than 99.9999% of everyone else.
If wealth is measured by how much ammo you've got, your bank account or the fact that you have lawyers on retainer won't mean much.
- vkou 3y agoThe wealthy have over the past few thousands of years figured out that they can pay half the poor to keep the other half in line. Despotism is the norm, not the exception in human societies. A brief blip of liberal democracy has only been made possible by a surplus of resources created by industrialization. If that surplus disappears, or gets fully siphoned up by the elites, we'll be right back to times of feudal lords, their knight-enforcers, and everyone else.
- forgetfreeman 3y ago^ Depressingly accurate.
- maxerickson 3y agoYeah, but what are they paying the security force in after the apocalypse? More or less, in comfort. Guess what lots of people that are getting paid in comfort are gonna do? They are gonna try to take control.