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jackblemming · 2024-01-13 16:28:00

If the rich have their way we’re all going to be living like this within a few decades. Probably even worse.

BlueTemplar | karma 2807 | avg karma 0.63 · | 2024-02-06 15:24:46

Excluding (super) rich people from society is only going to make things worse for everyone.

timeagain | karma 697 | avg karma 4.12 · | 2023-09-19 14:37:05

It’s bad for rich people.

shadowbannedtoo | karma 27 | avg karma 1.42 · | 2019-01-24 22:57:50+00:00

The wealthy control us with the, 'I don't want to pay for it trick.'

Any new idea, like UBI, that might equal out the playing field, a bit, is so easily shot down by scare tactics.

I foresee a future of just rich people, and the exploited. I truly find it depressing. The wealthy have us all blaming the wrong people. The middle class blame the poor. The whiter ones blaming the darker ones. Just blame someone except the rich boys, and the buying power of that family money.

All the while, the crafty boys are controlling our thoughts, and actions.

All this cheap tech surveillance, and cheap psyops, just make the wealthy chaps goal of keeping us enslaved easier.

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akagusu | karma 963 | avg karma 2.67 · | 2023-02-10 13:13:16

Better for the rich, worse for the rest of us.

fxtentacle | karma 18712 | avg karma 5.34 · | 2020-03-16 16:57:57+00:00

I predict that Americans hate their less wealthy fellow citizens way too much for this to ever turn into reality.

lazide | karma 9657 | avg karma 1.51 · | 2022-05-23 14:59:53

Think of rich people as the thin layer on top of a larger tide. They won’t stop, but the level they are at will change, and it won’t be higher than it was. Many of them will be changing strategies too.

rubbingalcohol | karma 2297 | avg karma 5.62 · | 2019-10-24 15:51:30+00:00

Yea RICH people will do that. Everyone else will be living in third world conditions, and that's apparently okay.

EliRivers | karma 5862 | avg karma 1.69 · | 2019-02-08 09:19:54+00:00

Rich people will be fine, I suspect. The urgency will hit when rich people in powerful nations feel it, by which time poor people in a lot of nations will have had a pretty miserable time. I suspect that the steps then taken will involve protecting rich people's lifestyles, rather than really doing anything about the problem, while poor people's lifestyles adapt to the new conditions (and indeed, many of them die).

bawolff | karma 19532 | avg karma 3.08 · | 2022-02-14 11:23:08

Wealthy people are fine. They are mostly screwing over the working class.

goatlover | karma 4663 | avg karma 1.34 · | 2020-03-30 14:56:15

So the rich being selfish fucks. They want to own something and deprive the rest of us of that enjoyment.

cvccvroomvroom | karma 681 | avg karma 1.61 · | 2023-09-13 16:50:30

The rich won't be happy until everyone else is living in favelas and subjected to debt peonage.

ksaj | karma 2486 | avg karma 0.81 · | 2022-09-29 21:00:35

I wish the world could stop obsessing over how rich the richest people are, and instead obsess at how poor the rest are increasingly becoming.

jdavis703 | karma 7391 | avg karma 2.93 · | 2016-03-11 22:12:35+00:00

Which the article says, "The new wealthy are ruining everything because the old wealthy decided not to let them live anywhere near them."

kyriakos | karma 4430 | avg karma 1.83 · | 2016-06-12 14:31:17+00:00

how long before the rich start exploiting this?

foolzcrow | karma -33 | avg karma -0.03 · | 2021-10-06 11:45:34

Let me guess if we obey the rich it will all be ok and all solutions to this problem involve obedience to wealthy people.

ommunist | karma 739 | avg karma 0.61 · | 2016-05-29 16:28:50+00:00

The rich will capitalize on that and will create endless waves of constructing and reconstructing 'social housing'. They will become super rich and will form a layer with vested interest in maintaining hundreds of thousands being poor. This is France.

Lutger | karma 1719 | avg karma 3.71 · | 2021-02-23 06:44:07+00:00

I know you are saying this because it sounds absurd, but in a way it seems to be kind of what we're doing right now, but slowly. The rich are eating the poor.

I don't think the rich necessarily intend to, but in consumerist societies the consequences of our actions are so far removed from the moment of decision they usually don't even register for a lot of people, and surely don't make an impact on our ethical radar.

As a moderately well off Dutch guy, I am one of those rich people, and I'm constantly finding out how I am consuming rather than using the earth. I'm losing trust in our society, it's like discovering we are governed by a bunch of children instead of adults. I guess I'm still naive at 40 years old.

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baldfat | karma 8726 | avg karma 2.47 · | 2018-04-24 11:25:43

Rich ONLY get richer at the expense of others.

vincent-toups | karma 691 | avg karma 3.17 · | 2019-09-18 18:43:19+00:00

Rich people have too much money and not enough places to put it.