“You first. (then I’ll see if it snowballs).”
Love a good shit post, lol. And it actually gets me thinking how something like 70% the world’s wealth is held in the top 10% 🍽️ 🤤
Of course you need to make a monumental amount of money compared to the rest of the world, so we’re willing to make that sacrifice! Just 10% of people in the world! 😂 I think it’s $32k USD a year salary to be in the global top 10% of earners. And oh… $60k USD to be in the top 1%
So I’m kinda curious, OP, you on the menu?
Note this calculator is from 2019, so “deflate” accordingly
Ooh that’s cool.
I can save four lives per year for only 13k USD? Thats amazing. Thats actually slightly less than the cost of an average uncomplicated vaginal birth in the US.
Global wealth disparity will never be solved until we either achieve post-scarcity or a workable one-word government that’s not based on capitalism. There’s too much old word racism, colonialism, and natural resources aren’t equally divided. As a result there will always be global wealth inequality. We literally have to advance as a species.
Instead of subtly advocating for violence, maybe we should advocate for the election of persons who will make laws that will protect those who labor, as well as advocate for stronger unions.
I think the world has enough violence going on right now, that we don’t need to advocate for more.
Edit: Just realized which community (ty ‘no banana’) I was posting my comment to.
So, never mind, I guess. /shrug
no long ago my country got into a plebiscite, the 1% richer only needed to introduce fear using lies and falacies to break it down (owners of the newspaper). They told people this: with the new text anyone could lost his houses, it will change the flag, the national anthem and a lot of nonsense that never was written on the new text. Now almost sure we’re coming back to the old one. And yeah people tried to fight back the poison, but didn’t work.
no long ago my country got into a plebiscite,
May I ask which country?
Chile, the long thin country of southamerica, (probably one of the “why didnt work”)
that’s not working out. time for a new plan… i’m not saying it has to be violence. and i’ll keep voting. But it’s getting to the point where just voting isn’t enough cause they keep changing the rules… again, doesn’t have to be violence. But i’m just saying, i don’t know what other option there is. Fuck the rich. I’m not gonna eat em, but i’ll be happy to watch others do it.
that’s not working out. time for a new plan… i’m not saying it has to be violence. and i’ll keep voting. But it’s getting to the point where just voting isn’t enough cause they keep changing the rules… again, doesn’t have to be violence.
All shitposting aside, honestly what’s needed is for all of us ‘peasants’ to track the votes of each elected representative, via the Congress app or otherwise, and then network together via the Internet whenever any of them are running for office; to compare notes. Something like an NRA rating system for gun owners, etc.
Because when it comes down to it, a lot of time people are either lazy or don’t have the time to properly investigate the people they’re voting for, and end up voting on a whim or a feeling.
Most people seem to vote on “the other side is worse”. Elected officials are alright I guess, but it would be nice to be able to have your own say in complex issues you feel strongly about rather than letting some pampered career politician make decisions that will never effect them.
Elected officials are alright I guess, but it would be nice to be able to have your own say in complex issues you feel strongly about rather than letting some pampered career politician make decisions that will never effect them.
Fair enough. But if you feel they are ineffective and or pampered, then you vote them out.
If you can’t vote them out, if the majority is disagreeing with you, then you have to look into the reasons as to why.
Most people seem to vote on “the other side is worse”.
When you see them cutting funds on education, you have to think not just how that affects everyone in that moment, but what does that do to the next generation, when they grow up and become voters that just vote the other side is worse.
I truly get the frustration of feeling held hostage by the popular mindset, but we live in a society where we all get a voice, and I don’t think we have figured out a way of telling someone they’re being nonsensical with their vote and ask them to reconsider, without them getting emotional and overly combative about it. That’s a hard nut to crack.
And now these days we have to also fight bots and shills who are purposely being intellectually dishonest to sway thinking to shape a narrative that is positive to just their interests, and not to argue to a solution that is just for all.
Without truth, the center does not hold.
That’s not how a two party system works though, is it?
You choose between “more of the same” or “something horrendous”. Otherwise you might as well have thrown your vote away.
That’s not how a two party system works though, is it?
Depends on which of many parties you are speaking of.
Community. Community is the word.
Because you, dear reader, probably can’t even pull together the motivation to make a sandwich most of the time, let alone take up arms and put yourself in harm’s way.
Peasant uprisings are so much work though 😩
It always bothers me on labor day when I see stores open. I work at a desk 4 out of 5 days a week that is the extent of my “labor” and yet I get a day off.
We tried that, but money seems to prefer the company of other money, and is better at organizing than people.
Sounds like the money should be eaten
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La Boetie wrote the “Discourse on Voluntary Servitude” in 1577. It’s almost 500 years old now. There is no hope.
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Because most of us dislike violence, even when it’s necessary and justified.
Meanwhile, the rich have no problem using violence against us to protect their hoarded wealth or if they can profit from it in the slightest.
People need to remember that the Western culture rewards people with mental illness. Ultra wealthy are sociopaths to the core. This is why they can have no empathy for people. We all were scratching our heads how the Studio Heads in Hollywood couldn’t wrap their heads around fair treatment of their worker’s.
These people aren’t evil, they are inherently broken. Normal people don’t aspire to do whatever it takes to trampled over others for gains.
We need to stop rewarding the mentally ill with more money and instead put them in psychiatric wards.
Sociopathy is not a mental illness.
But psychopathy sure is
I think it is considered a personality disorder akcshually.
Personality disorders are listed in the ICD-11 (International Classification of Diseases), and are definitely a mental illness accckkkshually
I have meet plenty of poor sociopaths. It isnt some super power. Maybe you just hear of the combination of rich and sociopath because no one cares that the guy who makes 20k a year towing cars lacks empathy.
They do as well, the difference being they have enough money too disassociate themselves from their own actions and have someone else deal with the mental, social and financial repercussions.
The whole “eat the rich” thing is pretty offensive to survivors of the Cultural Revolution, where there are several actual examples of political torture-cannibalism documented by the CCP. Though, in this case, the “rich” were just teachers and lawyers and other people deemed uppity.
Okay, but context is important. No one is talking about the CR. We’re talking about French Revolution era inequality.
I am, Mao was right about landlords
“Cool it with the anti-land remarks”
Who’s talking about the CCP? Looks like you’re going out of your way to be offended.
Or maybe the capitalist brainwashing got you bad.
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It sounds like we need to crowdfund the creation of a Private Military Company. We’ll need a good name for it.
That’s how you actually get assassinated.
Ok ok ok so then let’s put it on the blockchain. Nobody in charge, “assassination politics”.
Why not crowd fund your own lobbyist and think tank. Do what the rich do.
Think tanks create a strategy. They suggest/create bills in your interest. They tell you what politicians to target. Think tanks are filled with statistician and lawyers who build portfolios for how to accomplish what you want. Its polls and research and statistics that show why your goal is good.
Hand the package to lobbyist who target those politician and start pushing change the way it is supposed to occur. Keep your issue in front of the politician. Show them through your research that if they pass and fight for (x) that they will stay in power or gain popularity and it will benefit the country.
Or call them Nazis and throw food at works of art. Not sure the best route.
Its crazy to me people think they can more easily convince people to burn their work days up protesting in streets than just donating $50 to the fight
I knew I had heard this before
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What about it is corrupt
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That is a bribe. That isn’t what lobbying is exclusively. Lobbying is bringing your issue to politician to influence them to fight for you. Corrupt lobbyist will bribe to influence the politician. But you’re mixing up a subset of what it is with the whole. Lobbying is what groups fighting for abortion rights and civil action do every day. Tobacco lobbyist or your local wealthy family greasing wheels should dismay you from participating in it.
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Where do we donate that $50 right now?
I think that’s part of the problem too. No one knows an effective method to follow through with, or if they do find one it’s more often than not, not the same one “I” chose.
Let’s get a twitch streamer lol
“Citizens United”
Citizens’ United Military makes for a nice acronym
cum
Guillotines are speech
If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated. The Party could not be overthrown from within. Its enemies, if it had any enemies, had no way of coming together or even of identifying one another. Even if the legendary Brotherhood existed, as just possibly it might, it was inconceivable that its members could ever assemble in larger numbers than twos and threes. Rebellion meant a look in the eyes, an inflection of the voice; at the most, an occasional whispered word. But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They need only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it
George Orwell: Hey Karl can I copy your homework?
Karl Marx: Sure just change it enough so it doesn’t look like you copied it.
George Orwell writing 1984:
more like Orwell and Yevgeni Zamyatin
Man, I am a big 1984 fan boy but reading We really took some of the wind out of my Orwell sails.
I think you need to read 1984 a little more carefully. There’re a few critical details you appear to have missed, but don’t feel bad; a lot of readers make similar mistakes.
I didn’t know that Karl Marx invented the concept of revolution, neat!
You go first, we’ll follow yeah?
… Surely, sooner or later, it will occur to me to do it?
Literally the point of the quote…
Because few break the conditioning imposed upon them to act. Those that do rarely are able to unite others.
I wouldn’t want to eat beef from a cow treated with steroids or one with mad cow disease or an old cow minutes from death, so why would I want to eat Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, or Warren Buffett?
Tough ass meat ngl
Even if you don’t want to eat them, you can still help prepare the feast
Why does SpaceX sell an onion holder
Because when that happens, we just find a new rich class, slightly below the ones we just ate. So they go too… now there is a newest rich class, just below the previous.
And so on, until you’re the new rich class.
In 2020, it took about 25 seconds for Bezos’ net worth to increase by the national annual median income - whether he was working, sleeping, shitting, fucking, or butt-chugging the tears of the employees he’s working to death.
He eared all that for what? Owning shit and stealing the value of peoples’ work. That’s not a job, that’s not of value.
We’re a looooooooooooong way from having to worry about eating regular people.
Meanwhile, the Department of Housing and Urban Development estimates the cost of ending homelessness in the US is $20bn/year. We place more value on Bezos alone having a Scrooge McDuckian money pit than we do on ending homelessness for almost a decade.
Fuck right off with your slippery slope bullshit.
But isn’t that the whole point. The working class becomes the new rich class. That sounds like equal distribution of wealth.
Hmm, sounds like some sort of game theory puzzle now.
For the same reason that some foreign workers are able to immigrate to a country and are so successful they end up in the 0.1%
Maybe they’re saving it for sweeps.
