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This plays out on a less extreme level too, when an area attracts wealth the more wealthy residents will silo themselves behind security gates and kill any sense of community that the area previously had.
This is nothing new to the Mega Rich and absolutely an ad read from WSJ to the Middle Rich.
You need to be more alarmed about this.
Conservatives (and the rich tend to side with conservatives) have no imagination and project their own intentions on others.
I cannot possibly stress this enough:
IF THEY THINK WE’RE GOING TO VIOLENTLY ATTACK THEM, IT’S SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE THEY ARE PREPARING TO ATTACK US THEMSELVES.
They have THOROUGHLY demonstrated that they can’t imagine anyone wanting to do anything but that which they themselves want to do, are preparing to do, or are ALREADY DOING.
Mark my words:
The rich are preparing to exterminate us all.
They don’t care about extermination. Lol. How do you exploit the dead?
They want you alive. And supple to their desires.
This is why they are absolutely shitting themselves over plummeting birth rates.
So it’s not that they’re going to exterminate you as and kill you. They are going to exterminate your way of life to supplement their own
They aren’t even that smart. They’re just self-obsessed, greedy, pedophiles.
No, not exterminate, just control with even further violence. The rich are stupid and useless, but they do know that they need bodies to do their work for them, even if they’ll never admit it.
This is, honestly, much worse because complacent people won’t fight back nearly as hard.
They can only store so much food in there.
How will drones ever cross the moat?
How will vigilantes ever be able to catch these oligarchs at their office if they have moats around their house.
Honestly, wouldnt it be cheaper to just not be evil?
I got a trebuchet for sale.
I imagine the ultra-wealthy can afford their own personal surface-to-air missiles & their own personal army to man them.
The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers – if that technology could be developed “in time”.
It’s as if they want to build a car that goes fast enough to escape from its own exhaust
I tried to reason with them. I made pro-social arguments for partnership and solidarity as the best approaches to our collective, long-term challenges. The way to get your guards to exhibit loyalty in the future was to treat them like friends right now, I explained. Don’t just invest in ammo and electric fences, invest in people and relationships. They rolled their eyes at what must have sounded to them like hippy philosophy.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/0 4/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff
Both of those sound more expensive than drones.
True but I think this guy means that we commoners could cross their strongholds with drones. And I meant that the wealthy could defend themselves against our paltry drones with surface-to-air missiles & their own personal armies.
They surely could.
And we could fling stuff over the walls to make sure they don’t get a minute of quiet or more than a week with un-scorched grass.
Castles often weren’t conquered by forcefully breaking through the walls but rather by keeping them under the siege until their inhabitants either surrender or die from hunger.
They are very small, and we have a LOT of raw sewage, and some very powerful pumps.
Won’t take long.
This is proper problem solving for the task at hand.
Fine. Trap them in their palaces. Turn them into tombs.
The ultra rich have always done this, we just used to call them “castles”.
I wonder if someday there will be guided tours of Jeff Bezos’ mansion. A little museum too, all about his reign of terror.
Unless you got a Black Agnes hiding in there it ain’t gonna do much.
Read this as “black angus”
What’s that, a Scottish 90yo version of Black Widow? 🤔
She was the lady of Dunbar during the second war of Scottish independence. She rather famously held the castle from pro-English forces through most of the war.
So they’re working really hard to make impossible to enter their houses. How hard would it be to modify them to make it impossible to leave?
Pretty sure that getting close enough without being murdered by hired goons would be the hardest part.
After solving that, anyone creative and/or competent enough should have no problem sealing the would be pharaohs in their pyramids of hubris 🤷
So, ‘Under the dome’ but with the very rich instead of a random city, then.
Guess who can swim!What kind of life is that though. So now you’re stuck in a fancy prison and can’t trust anyone around you?
I know the signs of a aproaching class war if i see them.
You mean a sudden escalation.
The current class war has been going on for decades.
They could just try being nice, but I guess that’s too much work
Seems a lot simpler to just not be a greedy POS.
Power corrupts. Absolute power…
Well, contrary to their self-perception, they’re not always the sharpest spoons in the forest.
You don’t have to be when you can afford to pay more competent people to take care of literally everything for you 🤷
