Wealth inequality risks triggering 'societal collapse' within next decade, report finds - eviltoast
  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
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    This is why the fascist billionaires are carrying out their great takeover. They know the jig is up and everything’s going to crumble down and no one will escape it.

    They just want to rob whatever they still can before they too croak. Thre is no great plan for their survival beyond a few years in an underground bunker, either…

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      I got news for you. We can already store food for dozens of years, if not a hundred in mylar bags with O2 absorbers. With enough money you could store enough food for you, security, families, and all supplies to repair and maintain an underground bunker for a lifetime, easily.

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      19 hours ago

      Elon literally built a doomsday retreat in Texas, where most of the women he’s fathered children live. as well as most of his children.
      some notable exceptions, Grimes isnt there, nor the child who became Trans. for obvious reasons

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      It’s a hilariously incompetent strategy by the rich because they’re more dependent on a functioning society than any other group. You can tell they’re not smart nor good leaders when they build luxury bunkers in New Zealand because those won’t save them from losing virtually (and possibly literally) everything they have. They have everything to lose and the only thing they need to do to keep their wealth and power is to contribute to the society they’re living off of. They’re failing miserably because they lack compassion. It will be their downfall.

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        It is why they are hastily trying to turn the calendar back to 1933 but they might overshoot and get 1789.

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              Napoleon was actually about average height for the time. The shortness thing was just British (?) war propaganda to, for lack of a less on the nose term, belittle him in the public consciousness.

              Barron IS still freakishly tall, though. He should either stop doing that or become really good at basketball or volleyball.

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                Not to go off on a quite wild tangent from societal collapse but I think beyond propaganda Napoleon was often flanked by tall and hand-picked elite guards and ironically also old aristocracy generals themselves tall from richer diet and so appeared short in comparison.

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        but isn’t their strategy literally how they have 90 percent of the wealth? seems a crushingly effective strategy. what do you suppose their downfall looks like? does it happen before or after ours?

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          There’s a limit, and at this rate we are bound to get there eventually.

          Look at it this way…either there is a finite amount of money, and the more it is amassed by a handful of people, the less there is for others to survive. Or there is an infinite amount of money, and it’s worthless.

          There really should’ve been a point of exponentially diminishing returns on personal wealth, like a long time ago. There shouldn’t have been any super-rich after the steel barons of the early 20th century. You’d think we would’ve learned our lesson then. Especially since by then we had universal suffrage, and not just white wealthy male landowners were voting.