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The Real Purpose of Wealth 💸
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I'm a little confused here.
We know for a fact they're predominantly evil sociopaths, war criminals, child predators, liars, thieves, rapists, and murderers, among other, equally horrifying crimes.
But we're still not shooting them on sight. How come?
May be we do. One thing that has been stuck in my head for a long while: I have something to lose, and I have people to care about, same as many others. So I am not running around killing every bastard. But - there are people who have nothing to lose, no family etc. - what about them?
The answer may be quite simple: even when they do punish some bastards, I do not get to hear about this, because guess who controls the media. Yes, it doesn't cover "haven't heard anything like it at all" - but making it "almost didn't hear about it" for me is definitely possible
Did they just amplify the Brian Thompson story so we'd think "wow this must be rare"? His alleged shooter Luigi Mangione might get off, and the public loves him.
I wouldn't be surprised at all
All I'm going to say is that squeezing the middle class like they have been is going to create a lot terminally ill people with otherwise treatable disease. Those people may very well be incredibly pissed off, along with family, and also have the time and resources to do things that might be life-ending anyway.
Yup. The further it goes, the more catastrophic "boom" will follow
Because we'd get caught and then destroyed in the media by the elite who want to keep doing it.
Can you imagine the outcry from the hardliners of either major US political party if someone with even minor leanings towards their "enemy" kills one of their elite?
The reality is, while many people say they'd willingly do that, the vast majority of people have too much to lose if they do, and they know it.
That's the real issue. The political elite have been pushing us right up to the breaking point for 100s of years, and they've learned just how far they can go without starting an actual revolution.
It would be interesting if we got some way to crowdfund a defense, but there's no way the government would be dumb enough to allow that to happen.