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The rich, who have disproportionately contributed to the current crisis can buy and relocate to safety, while the poor will be hit the hardest.
by Y-bar 4mo ago
The rich, who have disproportionately contributed to the current crisis can buy and relocate to safety, while the poor will be hit the hardest.
- y-c-o-m-b 4mo agoI've seen a lot of stories about this in the last year, but I truly wonder how effective they will be. What's to stop people from acquiring equipment like large machinery to dig them out of their bunker or bombing it with bunker busters?
- Y-bar 4mo agoIf you look at both past and modern-day equivalents you will see that the rich do buy enough people to work as safety troops. The reason why Putin or Kim Jong Un is not dead a long time ago is that enough of the ruling upper middle class has been made dependent on their leaders and will work to ensure the safety of said leader.
- ArtemZ 4mo agoBut ultimately, isn't it the complacency of poor people, their disinterest in politics, in standing for each other, in learning and pushing for change is what allowed the existence and conduct of the rich?
- Y-bar 4mo agoI have seen this line of thinking before. ”Your honour, but the girl didn’t resist very much, so she must bear part of the blame for what I did to her”.
- jbxntuehineoh 4mo agoif that happens someone should form an extremist group dedicated to hunting them down and effecting justice
- qsera 4mo agoIsn't that the ultimate reason to be rich? Isn't the ultimate incentive? The rich have built roads, infrastructure, done research and improve QoL for everyone. We payed them and they grew even more rich. And when the judgement day come, you are going to deny everything you have paid them? That was the whole contract! I get that we can't help but be dumb and consume and enable some entities to be so rich. But then we should not blame the rich!
- Y-bar 4mo ago> The rich have built roads No, the working class built the roads. > infrastructure No, the workers built the infrastructure. > done research No, the academics and researchers did that. > improve QoL for everyone Explain how Putin (Russia's riches man) improves the QoL of everyone. Explain how rich people like Epstein improves the QoL of everyone. Explain how Trump and Jared Kushner improves the QoL of everyone. Explain how the Koch family improves the QoL of everyone. Explain how Imelda Marcos, Pablo Escobar, Rupert Murdoch, Kim Jon Un, Bernie Madoff, Al Capone, Robert Mugabe, Silvio Berlusconi, Rodrigo Duerte, Peul Manafort, Viktor Bout, Hosni Mubarak, Mohammed bin Salman, Prince Andrew, Albert Thys ... Are these rich people improving the quality of life of everyone?
- qsera 4mo ago> No, the working class built the roads. Are you serious? That is pretty naive! >Explain how Putin (Russia's riches man).. Look at the money in your pocket. Do you know how it got there? There is one and only one way to get it. Do some service for the society. Either you did it, or someone else who did gave it to you. Either way society owes you. Same goes for the rich.
- Y-bar 4mo ago> Are you serious? That is pretty naive! Strange. I only see working class people building roads here. Show me a picture of a billionaire building a road.
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