this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2025
356 points (98.6% liked)
World News
590 readers
656 users here now
Rules:
- Be a decent person
- No spam
- Add the byline, or write a line or two in the body about the article.
Other communities of interest:
founded 4 months ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
World watches as majority of all humans on the planet slowly loose their wealth and ability to sustain themselves: .... meh, can't do much about it
Someone suggests we should take wealth of wealthiest people even though it wouldn't really hurt them anyway: .... WWIII it is!
The people think about it and feel bad for those billionaires because the people think they are just temporarily inconvenienced billionaires themselves, and when their billions come in they don’t want anyone taking their billions away.
When I was young people were temporary inconvenienced millionaires, where are we heading?!
:-)
What I truly don't understand is, let's say that the billionaires completely "win" and we're all of their servants in some way. Who is going to actually protect them or serve them? Do they think they'll be sitting in that bunker and everyone around them will cook for them and protect them from the people wanting to steal what they have? The extremely more likely scenario is that people just go in and take they what they want, servant, neighbor, whatever. They won't be safe, lol. Desperate people will take you down to save their own family.
I now know why there are always these loyal servants in movies that fight with the master to the end. It's the wealthy paying for scripts to plant the seed, lol.
This is frustratingly naive. Do you think there's no one who will offer protection in exchange for an extra scoop of porridge? Throughout history, most soldiers didn't fight for acause...they did it for the paycheck. Billionaires already have an entourage, there will always be people under their umbrellas.
Hell, forget about the money...you don't think there's anyone who would gladly take a bullet for Elon Musk in exchange for nothing?
That's because we're not desperate. If zuck is living in a bunker, it would not be normal times.
"I'm looking for 50 guys to defend my compound. You can live there and eat for free"
Nobody's taking that offer when they're desperate?
Lol, they would absolutely take that offer. Have you ever lived in the South? They would then go there and do whatever, and I mean whatever, they want.
ETA: Do you think people wouldn't do it because they have morals or ethics about it or something? Even if you're a fan of Musk, it wouldn't be for long and he would be gone.
Plebs get to uppity, you mow that lawn!
Eliting 101