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Daily reminder that the billionaire class wants most of us dead. They will not give you health care. They will destroy the CDC. They want pandemics to ravage the masses and reduce our numbers. They want our assets and our wealth and they want you dead. They don't want things to be safe. They don't want cars to be safe. They don't want your drinking water to be safe. They want it all to be as hazardous as possible so that the most number of people die.
They are happy when bad things happen to you. And they really believe that they're entitled to the planet. This is all working towards their goal.
An empty playground for the rich free of taxation, with AI doing all the production for them. It’s like reverse communism, with the bourgeoisie completely conquereing and eliminating the proletariat.
It's like Epstein Island, but everywhere!
But then why simultaneously complain about low birth rates? They seem to want a growing workforce class they can exploit.
They want the older ones that have known a better life to die so that they can teach the young to serve and obey, that's why they are complaining about birth rates.
They don't have their robotic workforce and killer drones just yet. towards the billionaire utopia, the billionaires require their killing machine to be up and running at max efficiency, yet they still need babies to fuck, kill, and exploit. It's really a a transitional need, not part of what I would think is the final vision.
Its nonsensical.
If the billionaire class wanted everyone dead they wouldn't do it with measles
You’re assuming these people are competent businessmen who would figure out that killing off the people you’re exploiting for wealth is bad for building further wealth.
Trump is a prime example of the incompetence. He bankrupted multiple casinos, even with Daddy’s inheritance.
They’re just simply good at gaming the system by manipulating market shares and real estate, while buying political power to serve their interests. They’re not businessmen at all. They’re grifters.
On the contrary.
We are in agreement that what's happening is not malice, but incompetence and greed.
hmm. No.
He got elected President, twice. He's corrupted over $5B in personal money. He has secured infinite power from SCOTUS. He has the entire Republican party scared of him. He has the entire Democratic party neutered.
Sounds pretty competent to me.
I don’t think it’s off his own intellect, at all. He doesn’t have much intellect to speak of.
He’s a stooge for the Heritage Foundation, Bibi and Putin. He works off Roy Cohn’s playbook. These guys are great thieves, I’ll concede, but actually running legitimate businesses and succeeding? Nah.
Trump on his own would be just a narcissistic, dumb, rejected NYC tycoon who bankrupt casinos. Don’t give him that much credit.
Just like any investment, they diversify their killing methods. Having a disease wipe out a bunch of people they don't like is a slam dunk for them, easy cheap, blame free, results not guaranteed however. But you're damn sure they're going to leave the door open for any sort of disease to come and do some work for them for cheap. As a billionaire, I would not be interested in doing one big stunt to kill a bunch of people because that won't work out for me.
They've much preferred the long drawn out slow-burn of disease and poverty. Its not only entertaining and strokes their ego, it's also the best way to get the results they want. They keep plausible deniability for themselves. You can't see the puppet masters at work behind the scenes.
As plebs we see nothing but natural disasters and natural disease. It's not obvious that we should blame the billionaires at any given point. Who decides when where why and how we should go to war? Do normal people know that they only have a couple selfish psychopathic individuals to blame in reality?
They have been shown to cause "accidents" (oops a gas tanker blew up on top of the bridge in Detroit, now that real estate I wanted got a lot cheaper! thanks Ghislane!), start wildfires, and any number of insane murderous horrors to get their way. They want all these events that they've caused to look like mysterious natural disasters. I suspect that if there were no more billionaires suddenly, we'd see a lot less crazy shit happen in the world.
I don’t get the logic. Not criticizing you, because it’s one good explanation. Who generates the wealth for the billionaire class? Who receives the wealth? You’d want highly educated people and not peasants. Wouldn’t you rather grift in Taiwan than North Korea?
Corporations spent hundreds of billions on LLMs to crator the value of skilled labor, justify mass layoffs, and launder stolen content, all to cut cost. Whether it's legal regulations or basic human rights, in the eyes of sycophants, any perceived risk to their profit margin is deemed unacceptable including their own employees.
Smaller companies are themselves not meant to survive and intended to diversify legal risks and consequences (e.g. Alphabet and Meta split from Google and Facebook). This way they can be dismantled and sold once the legal baggage becomes unprofitable without risking the wealth that has long since been funnelled to its 'legally distinct' owners. The collateral damage to the now unemployed is simply one less thing off their balance sheet and is much easier to do when you have home turf legal ~~corruption~~ advantages.
So no, it's not about generating stable wealth long term as it is about capturing any source of capital by any means necessary, legality and morals be damned.
In my mind, it doesn't really matter who generates the wealth. They already have it. They're just picking up the rest of the floor. And technically, I said, most of us. They want a small serving class. They will always need it. They take the path of least the resistance first. Take out all the lower hanging fruit.
Except that highly educated people are going to eventually fight back or flee grift and fascism. Only the dull , unskilled and propagandized will stick around until the leopards eat their faces.