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withersailor ( withersailor@aussie.zone )  to World NewsEnglish · 3 years ago

Super-rich warned of ‘pitchforks and torches’ unless they tackle inequality

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Super-rich warned of ‘pitchforks and torches’ unless they tackle inequality

www.theguardian.com

withersailor ( withersailor@aussie.zone )  to World NewsEnglish · 3 years ago
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Global elite told at London’s Savoy hotel of real risk of ‘civil disruption’ if more is not done to help struggling millions
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    Surely their huge stacks of money will protect them from the bullets, right? Right???

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      I’m worried you may be underestimating how many bootlickers would be willing to defend a billionaire in some sort of collapse scenario

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      I would personally prefer to sentence anyone with a net worth of over $1B to a lifetime eating $100 bills until they’ve literally eaten their fortune. Show them the real value of their monopoly paper, you know?

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      I mean, yes, good luck getting to their closed communities and enwalled houses with panic rooms, personal bodyguards and police / law in their pockets. Did we even have any famous billionaire assassinations in history so far?

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        That’s why they’re all building bunkers. They know unrest is coming, they know they’re part of the problem, they just don’t care.

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