It’s like playing Russian roulette. A big gun, 100 chambers, one bullet. You pull the trigger, click, no bang, you get richer. Click, you get richer. Click, click, click, you are wealthy. Click, click, click, you’re a billionaire. Click, bang, your brain is splattered all over the wall. That’s the game the rich are playing. You can’t keep winning forever.
Running things like a business means all the money goes to the guy at the top and his buddies, and the rest should be glad they still have a job.
Government needs money to buy all the Cybertrucks and Teslas because sales are falling.
For conservatives, their team is morally good so can do no bad. The other team is morally bad so can do no good. And the law is there to punish the bad people. The end result is selective enforcement of rules and laws against certain minorities.
MAGA ULE
Using Luigi’s Example
The full phrase is MAGA FASE.
Make America Great Again
For A Small Elite
Said by the people arguing the Nazi salute is not a Nazi salute.
Maybe the rich fuckers are playing both sides to keep you from realizing they’re stealing everything.
Lower income households also have the highest mortality rates and shorter lifespan.
I´d argue higher income people spend money a lot more money on other things than the basics, like apparel, entertainment, travel, starbucks coffee, … Entire industries disappear when people can´t afford the products or services. In times of crisis, people stop certain spending and you get all the restaurants, hotels, amusement parks, fancy shops and so on crying they don´t get as much business anymore and slowly start to go bust.
In terms of economic system, they got us by the balls and are squeezing hard.
In bad times we have a lot of children for better odds and more hands to do work,
That used to be true until children were not allowed to work anymore. They’re quietly trying to roll that child labor of course.
in 20 years there’ll be a wave of economic demand and labor supply.
By that time, people are competing against humanoid robots and office AI to see who can do the job the cheapest. Humans are in the end not going to win that race. Robots and AI are a bit silly now but are getting better and cheaper quickly. There will buy a lot of labor supply, but with most people in a trailer park trash existence there won’t be that much demand.
be used for slave labor, including the production of more slaves.
That’s the theory they had. Turns out humans don’t breed that well in captivity. In practice the birth rate keeps dropping and is now way below replacement rates.
Said social media blocks you from using tor. Reddit back in the day freaked out when the apparent ip keeps switching and forces you to login again and again.
Turns out that technically they don’t have wealth, just a lot of loans with paper assets as collateral.
To name a few:
All come with some serious downsides of course.
First you need to stop money from systematically flowing to the top or that dividing is only going to be a temporary measure.
And much of the crime fighting is blue collar crime. On general the superheroes don’t touch white collar criminals.
Any superhero movie is problematic. They all say that only a few special people can save the country and the world. The rest of the population just has to hold tight and let the important people do their thing. It’s just a small step by replacing powers with wealth to give the rich carte blanche to do as they please.
Very roughly, you had liberalism until that crashed in the 1930 with the Great Depression.
Capitalism was rebooted with social liberalism to include welfare, education, healthcare. In the seventies that ran aground in stagflation. Rich people didn’t like investing anymore as the profits weren’t big enough to their liking with all that welfare. Then came the oil crisis and that killed it completely.
The system was rebooted again with a tweaked form of liberalism, so that’s now neoliberalism. It repeats all the mistakes of that past, slowly salami slices welfare and healthcare away, chips away at all the safeguards and then crashes again in 2008 with financial crisis.
After that, the system was basically resuscitated, pumped full of money to keep it going and now we see how long it lasts before something really bad happens. Welfare, education and healthcare are turning into dust for most people so something going to give.
In Europe, I guess. History books there are full of “and then the people got angry so they banished/killed/robbed/demolished the ruler/nobility/clergy”.
And that’s why they slapped the juniors in the mine until they learned to keep the light out of other people’s faces.