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  • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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    The billionaires, by convincing people the rich have a monopoly on violence.

    But if anything sparks collective violence, the rich are overthrown within a month.

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    Tje billionaires are winning now and the reasons are obvious.

    The 8 billion are unable to think clearly, identify problems and organize. The billionaires are focused on their goals and super influential. They’re able to buy loyality of the key less fortunate people and enforce loyality of others. They can also buy media to influence thinking of the masses.

    If it was just about numbers, the billionaires would lose. But it’s not.

  • Emil_Zatopek1982@lemmy.world
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    Just stop believing that those 3000 are billionaires. If 8 billion people say “No, you are not rich” those fuckers become poor. Money is a religion.

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    Unfortunately that is not how the figures really are. Way too many of those 8 billions will willingly simp and fight the rest of us in the name of those billionaires.

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    If we decide money no longer matters it’d be petty easy to eliminate them all. If we continue to let money run our lives then it’ll continue to be pretty easy for the people with money to keep all their power.

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      If we decide money no longer matters it’d be petty easy to eliminate them all

      Okay, but then where will I get my passive income? I worked 40 years in the shit and rusty needles mine to build up a big enough nest egg to get passive income. Now I’m too full of staff infections and lacerated limbs and shit lung to work anymore.

      I can’t afford not to make the next guy work himself to death in the shit rust needle mine.

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    It’s not the billionaires but the antisocial, amoral whores who will sell their souls for money and do their bidding that are the problem (police, army, etc.), and those who would quietly acquiesce. And of those there are way too many in some societies for change to be easy/possible.

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    It’s funny cause no one seems to realize that the billionaires are human beings. They have a house, they shit, they piss, they bleed, etc. And yet, everyone is somehow convinced that becoming a billionaire makes you somehow invulnerable.

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      An individual with a net worth of “just” $1b can afford to spend upwards of $50m per year on privacy and security, all while continuing to live a lavish lifestyle of excess and see their net worth continue to grow.

      That’s more than the annual US household income being spent on a daily basis.

      Now consider that the top 10 billionaires have more than 140x that amount.

      Yes, they are made of flesh & blood, and are susceptible to all of the same maladies as you or I — but especially post Luigi, they are shoring up their defences to the point that even a motivated individual would have just as much chance of becoming a billionaire as they are to getting to one.

      I would hope to be proven wrong, and to see a true working class uprising against them in my lifetime - but alas, I think they are too effective at keeping us arguing against ourselves to ever pose a serious risk to their hegemony.

    • dil@lemmy.zip
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      they win because they throw money at enough ppl to build a wall of ppl to protect them

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          and you assume those 8 billion all fight, id sit on my ass and watch

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          And yet, the poor and stupid people queue up to join the ICE and MAGA organisations.

          They would be as upset as they should be, if they were smarter. They wouldn’t be “poor and stupid” if they were smarter.

          That’s not a koinkidoink. USA has spent a very long time deliberately creating this situation. And by USA I mean those in power.

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      Its not that. Its the fact that these people hsve entire services dedicated to protecting their lifestyle and security.

      And the public security is also geared to disproportionately protect them as well.

      Short answer. The elite have private security of their own. And they are allied with rich politicians who control the police and military. They’ve got a shitload of guns at their disposal.

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        Yet they can still be taken out by a 3D printed gun on a nice morning walk to the office.

        You’re not wrong, but if Luigi taught us anything its that they’re not as impermeable as they like to appear. It just might take a few martyrs on our end.