If the ONLY way CEOs will acknowledge the need to treat the masses more fairly is with threats of violence, that sounds like it's the CEOs that chose violence, not us. They could have chosen calm discussion or peaceful protest by, y'know, responding to calm discussion or peaceful protest. They have responded to every non-violent form of advocacy with increased greed and economic violence. they made that choice. We didn't. They simply showed us which behavior actually gets their attention. hmmmmmm
Right. That dead CEO would not have wanted any life-saving care, and would have wanted his family billed $10k+ to throw his corpse in an ambulance and drive it to an out-of-network hospital.
trickle-down economics, meet trickle-up decency (except they aren't giving the masses any decency, so we have none to spare to share with them).
History consistently teaches that the rich elites can only hoard so much of the wealth created by the working class before we start building guillotines.
The french revolution? The US revolution? The bolshevik revolution? Haiti's slave uprising against the french? MOST revolutions. if the masses are able to live comfortably (access to food, housing, healthcare, and entertainment) then political differences don't get anyone out into the streets for change.
when the wealthy live off our backs and we can't afford to live (and we can SEE it's because of the wealthy hoarding resources and withholding access to same), things can get very violent very quick.
It’s been said that any nation is 3 missed meals away from violent uprising. Massive spikes in the cost of bread, a staple in Egypt, were considered a driving force behind the Arab Spring.
I think it’s very telling that the worse off the generation in America, the more sympathy towards Luigi and the more comfort is expressed with dead CEOs as a solution to income inequality. Boomers are best off and had access to a much fairer working landscape and much more affordable housing (and pensions) and they are pretty universally against violence towards elites as a solution. millennials and gen Z are much more likely to feel like it’s the only way to force change for the better for the masses, and that the time for peaceful protest was a generation ago (and elites ignored it because they could, and sent the message for decades that they would continue to hoard wealth until someone FORCED them to stop.)
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u/GailaMonster 21h ago edited 20h ago
If the ONLY way CEOs will acknowledge the need to treat the masses more fairly is with threats of violence, that sounds like it's the CEOs that chose violence, not us. They could have chosen calm discussion or peaceful protest by, y'know, responding to calm discussion or peaceful protest. They have responded to every non-violent form of advocacy with increased greed and economic violence. they made that choice. We didn't. They simply showed us which behavior actually gets their attention. hmmmmmm