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I think we'll see the global rich (western middle class) continue to fly well past the onset of the famines and refugee waves. Without a single family detached
by cagenut 1y ago
I think we'll see the global rich (western middle class) continue to fly well past the onset of the famines and refugee waves.
Without a single family detached house and a regular vacation flight most "middle class" people would have no idea why to get up in the morning. Our whole culture is built around lauding and striving toward that pattern as the good life. It will have to be taken from them, they will not give it up willingly.
- generalizations 1y ago> It will have to be taken from them Be careful when advocating force towards others. Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, after all.
- holtkam2 1y agoThey may not have been alluding to violence; perhaps something like democracy itself would be enough to take that lifestyle away from the middle class. If billionaires consolidate enough power & resources and push the tax burden onto the middle class which makes yearly vacations unaffordable
- generalizations 1y agoPerhaps they were referring to economic force. But 'it will have to be taken' isn't a passive statement either way.
- lukev 1y agoAh yes. George Washington, Simon Bolivar, Vladmir Lenin, etc... famously incompetent.
- generalizations 1y agoIncompetence can take many forms. Some of them include starting a fight they can't finish.
- lukev 1y agoI chose those examples specifically because they were completely successful.
- generalizations 1y agoThose were; many were not. Someone who takes issue with the middle class of the USA might not be.
- cagenut 1y agoyou're committed to the username bit
- generalizations 1y agoyup