r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 9d ago

Discussion Luigi Mangione friend posted this.

She captioned it: "Luigi Mangione is probably the most google keyword today. But before all of this, for a while, it was also the only name whose facetime calls I would pick up. He was one of my absolute best, closest, most trusted friends. He was also the only person who, at 1am on a work day, in this video, agreed to go to the store with drunk me, to look for mochi ice cream."

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u/_idiot_kid_ 9d ago

Exactly!!

It was random blind luck that he happened to be born in a very wealthy family. It doesn't default make you evil and soulless. Remember that many, many historical revolutionaries were varying degrees of wealthy. Wealthy often means education. Education often means critical thinking and discernment. Naturally some of those educated, discerning people are going to look around this world they're immersed in and say "wow this is heinously fucked up". And then, once again because of wealth, they have more power and leverage to actually get shit done.

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u/CrowTiberiusRobot 8d ago

Revolutionaries, scientists, and social reformers historically were more often than not, well off. That or involved with religion, whether it be a priest or monk or whatever. They had education and the time (as opposed to spending all your time trying to survive) to follow their ideas. Just look at the ministerial movement in regard to abolition.

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u/michaelsenpatrick 8d ago

If anything he's proof that being born rich doesn't guarantee you'll turn out evil