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> 2. Any statistics you look at, the median and average american citizen is far from being impoverished even by rich developed country western standards. I reco

> 2. Any statistics you look at, the median and average american citizen is far from being impoverished even by rich developed country western standards. I recommend people visit some developing countries to get a perspective on what true poverty looks like. I understand what you're getting at here, but this misses the point. If people are used to a decent quality of life, and that quality of life declines, they're going to be miserable. It doesn't matter what other countries are like. It's really in the same vein of "clean your plate because there are people starving who'd love to be in your shoes", which has never been a good argument. More importantly, if a lot of people are miserable, especially if they think some other group of people is the reason, it's going to cause civil unrest. Right now, the billionaires have been successful at tricking people into thinking it's immigrants or some other group, but that won't always be the case.

FirmwareBurner 2y ago
>Right now, the billionaires have been successful at tricking people into thinking it's immigrants or some other group, but that won't always be the case. False. It was always the case and it will always be the case. People as a whole, as a collective mob, are incredibly stupid and easy to manipulate against their own interests. Just see elections. Since the super rich own the media both the legacy media and the online social media, it's easier than ever to manipulate them. And people aren't getting any smarter, on the contrary, just look at the education system and IQ numbers, meaning they're getting easier to manipulate not harder. > it's going to cause civil unrest. People claiming that civil unrest will unleash against the super wealthy any time now, have constantly been wrong. All the civil unrest from the poor is only affecting the average middle-class people. And how do you expect poor people will find where the likes of Musk and Bezos live and what do you expect will happen to them once they try to go after the super rich? Exactly what happend to Luigi. Law enforcement will allocate 100% resources to go after you and throw the book at you. The rich and powerful are untouchable, so the only ones who will suffer the wrath of the poor will be the middle class. Those who think the super rich will somehow be even remotely affected by some hypothetical revolution of the poor that will somehow turn the tides in their favor, have read too much fiction and are deluding themselves with the highest concentration of copium in the world. If the poor were to have the power to threaten the rich with violence you're gonna see a missive reduction in your rights an a massive increase in state oppression. So a poor vs rich revolution in the US is not gonna happen. The closest thing was Occupy Wallstreet but that fizzled out pretty quickly once they introduced identity politics to divide the people and have them fight against themselves on gender and race.

FirmwareBurner 2y ago

>Right now, the billionaires have been successful at tricking people into thinking it's immigrants or some other group, but that won't always be the case. False. It was always the case and it will always be the case. People as a whole, as a collective mob, are incredibly stupid and easy to manipulate against their own interests. Just see elections. Since the super rich own the media both the legacy media and the online social media, it's easier than ever to manipulate them. And people aren't getting any smarter, on the contrary, just look at the education system and IQ numbers, meaning they're getting easier to manipulate not harder. > it's going to cause civil unrest. People claiming that civil unrest will unleash against the super wealthy any time now, have constantly been wrong. All the civil unrest from the poor is only affecting the average middle-class people. And how do you expect poor people will find where the likes of Musk and Bezos live and what do you expect will happen to them once they try to go after the super rich? Exactly what happend to Luigi. Law enforcement will allocate 100% resources to go after you and throw the book at you. The rich and powerful are untouchable, so the only ones who will suffer the wrath of the poor will be the middle class. Those who think the super rich will somehow be even remotely affected by some hypothetical revolution of the poor that will somehow turn the tides in their favor, have read too much fiction and are deluding themselves with the highest concentration of copium in the world. If the poor were to have the power to threaten the rich with violence you're gonna see a missive reduction in your rights an a massive increase in state oppression. So a poor vs rich revolution in the US is not gonna happen. The closest thing was Occupy Wallstreet but that fizzled out pretty quickly once they introduced identity politics to divide the people and have them fight against themselves on gender and race.