As someone from an ultra wealthy family but with no real wealth of my own. I’ve warned them plenty. They think they are safe. I’m just gonna sit over here and sip my tea. They can have fun.
this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2025
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Just drink matcha for safety.
If something happens to one of them and I happen to be in the area ... I didn't see anything.
I hope you realize Orange is amassing domestic military to protect billionaires and himself.
Sorry, I could afford to buy a "t".
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Hey look those people off the same class have opposite view points go waste time and effort in them. Ez win every time
11 years ago...
The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats — By NICK HANAUER
See also his Wikipedia page in the section on his controversial TED talk where he said:
Businesses and the rich do not create jobs. Jobs are created by a feedback loop between customers and businesses that is set in motion by consumers increasing their demand....
If lower income tax rates for the wealthy really worked we would be drowning in jobs, and yet unemployment and underemployment is at record highs
TED refused to publish the talk.
They refused to publish it? Wow, thank you for finally giving me a concrete reason to hate TED talks. They've always seemed like the biggest fart-sniffing conventions I can imagine. And it drives me nuts how people all present with a certain cadence, intonation, tone of voice. Like some kind of learned artificial dialect, the "good public speaker" dialect/accent. A perfectly fitting marker of the incestuous masturbation so prevalent among the kinds of people who give TED talks. I'm not saying they're all bad, so no offense to anyone's favorite TED speaker. There's been decent ones, but its largely exactly the kind of elite Ivy League parasite that, remarkably, manages to be despicable to both conservatives and many liberals. No wonder TED didn't publish something that might make their own speakers feel bad.
TED is a platform for basic "Ecomodernism" (Green Capitalism), its entire philosophy is Business As Usual with slow change via technological innovations.
They're all Steve Jobs wannabes. They copy his presentation style as much as possible, short of wearing a black turtleneck and jeans.
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So the thing is, there’s TED Talks, and TEDx Talks, and the second one you can just buy your way on to and say whatever the fuck you want to. That’s the one usually used by rich yahoos to peddle their snake oil.
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Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
That's capitalism. I find the more of a capitalist someone is, the more they worship money and the more they idolize anyone with a lot of it.
It also seems to be the case that the further you are from capitalism and it's ideals as a person, the more you're willing to emphasize with those less fortunate and want to help them to succeed.
Weird huh?
It’s totally not weird at all that there hasn’t been any studies on billionaires brains and what having that much money does to you
Capitalism doesn’t hold a monopoly on financial obesity, it can manifest in many economic models.
Agreed. People blame capitalism but our problem isn't economic: it's social, psychological, cultural.
That financial obesity is a symptom, but the root is the issue of cooperating with immense amounts of total strangers: no animal is wired for it, almost no one is wired to truly, deeply, emotionally care for nameless and faceless people: strangers who, you feel, won't help you when you have a fever, but who raise the price of potatoes because they need them too. We say we do care, maybe we even donate 5€ to some cause, but a stranger is a stranger and our day goes on.
That antagonism is even more heartfelt if you were a child who wasn't give the love they should have been given... Like way too many of us. Burning the village to feel its warmth.
No animal before us had the option, once they had abused the trust of their pack, to easily move hundreds of miles away and start from scratch with a clean reputation.
No animal before us fell into the trap of the paradox of tolerance: if a pack member intentionally and repeatedly damages other members, other animals do not spend a lot of time writing books about feel-good, entirely theorethical principles.
No animal is as detached from themselves as we are: since we have such complicated language with abstract concepts, we can forget the truth of our bodies and live in a fantasy world. We can even deceive ourselves, and make decisions informed by that deception. Even worse, we can deceive others a lot better than other animals: a lying gazelle might maybe sound the "lion!" alarm when there is no lion, but it's soon discovered; humans instead can brainwash others into standing against their own best interests, and the victim might believe it was their own opinion until their very last breath.
Capitalism creates competition with its advanatages and disadvantages, but I'm not sure it has great alternatives within the current system: incentives are necessary in a society of strangers, although I think the details -such as the amounts and the safeties- should be re-thought.
Again, within the current system. But I believe we will witness big changes in our lifetime (climate, biodiversity, AI, mass surveillance, military drones, a multipolar world, life extension, pandemics...), and who knows, maybe the entire framework might change.
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Yeah, but if these people were truly masters of long-term thinking, they wouldn't be spending all their time ruining the economies upon which their wealth is predicated.
You say that, but if you have a large cache of cash, economic crashes are just opportunities to buy assets at a bargain.
Up to a point yes. However, if the majority of your 'wealth' is not liquid and bound up in a stockmarket that no longer exists, you're going to have a hard time leveraging it. Similarly, what liquid wealth you have is only as valuable as the form it takes. Your dollar bills in a hyper-inflationary scenario is going to have more values as toilet paper than as a means of exchange, and your gold is no good if there are no one around willing to exchange anything for it. You can eat gold, but the nutritional value is somewhat dubious.
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I think we have passed the point of no return. Like, we are going to have our very first trillionaire, and everyone seems okay with it.
Yeah, but if I tax trillionaires, what happens when I myself become a trillionaire?!
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"Oh, those rich people better look out. Something real bad is going to happen to them" is a thing I've been hearing since the 90s.
The only "bad thing" I can think that's remotely qualifying is that US billionaires are being left behind by their East Asian peers, as their home country is run into the ground. And idk if "feel bad because you're not in first place anymore" is the thing being implied.
The only "bad thing" I can think that's remotely qualifying is that US billionaires are being left behind by their East Asian peers, as their home country is run into the ground.
Nah, billionaires have class solidarity that transcends nationalist sentiment. Which is why they are so afraid of anyone trying to gather class solidarity amongst the lower classes, they know how powerful it is.
Billionaires from East Asia and billionaires from the West all vacation in places like Dubai, have their own private islands, and multiple homes and banks all over the world. Nationalism to them is just a tool to keep class consciousness away from their employees.
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Yeah even after Luigi shooting a CEO nothing happened. Even if a revolution happened these people would just go to their luxury underground bunkers to wait it out.
There have been several more CEOs shot and stabbed since then but the media was instructed to not push those stories.
Please enumerate.
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I think we are very close to being past the point of society accepting these people in any form. Too much damage has already been done while the ultrawealthy laughed it away.
I wish i felt that way. Maybe in 20 years, but right now these people are still on a high pedestal in the eyes of the majority. They’ve mastered the art of giving “just enough” to keep the masses at bay. It will take a catastrophe of epic proportions with billions dead or suffering and these rich mf’ers sitting high in their ivory towers before the masses will open their eyes. Even then we’ll be told to “pray” and they will give us a few more scraps to naw on (all while they “prey” on us to further widen the gap between us and them).
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Nothing's going to happen to them. They have the upper hand and everything that happens will be slightly tilted in their favor, at least. I don't see any major victories ahead for us. This isn't a defeatist attitude, it's the recognition of truth that makes revolutionaries do what they do.
I'm just saying, if things go as usual the billionaires will be just fine, it's the rest of us that need help
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The t is silent.
I think the ultra wealthy are just trying to buy time until they can put automated turrets and drone death squads in their mansions.
I'm not trying to argue that it's a sound strategy, it's just what I think they're aiming for.
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