I’m not including the government in this because they actually do intentionally cause suffering and just so happen to be rich by stealing all your tax payer dollars.
Both parties do this. (I had to give that disclaimer, now to my opinion)
I saw a post that said “eat the rich”, I still think it’s kind of funny, but only because how stupid it is. Like how is fighting the rich (regular people with money) going to fix your problem (regular people without money)? It won’t.
I’m not sure if it’s just a trend online or because people are angrier due to more stress from bills, yada yada. (Feel free to school me on this part)
I do know that if you picked 1000 rich people and weighed their usefulness and positive impact on society it would outweigh 100,000 nonrich people.
For instance rich people make businesses that hire people, those people can work. Good (if that’s what you care about)
Rich people get inventions produced and do research and development. Now you’re using technology some rich person created. They may not have even been rich before they created it. Getting wealth may have been a side effect of their success. Do you still “eat the rich”?
It’s foolish and clearly bitterness. I know you have evil demons like Gates running around who happens to be rich AND villainous. However I’ve seen many evil and unwealthy people. Basically I think you all need to look at things with a clearer lense and stop hating and try to build wealth or at least freedom from needing wealth.
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The fallacy that people “make work” is so ingrained in our societies. Yep, i get up in the morning and “build” a “work” for someone to work in. Sure buddy.
What happens is that a) in a specific place, there is a demand, say for example for shoes, and someone with the money and education starts a shoe shop there. Now he can hire someone doing the grunt work.
The smart business guy can try to open 1.000 shoe shops in spaces where there are no demand and despite how early ge gets up in the morning and how hard he works they will all fail (and hire no one in the end).
They’re investors, they open that shoe shop, knowing the risk (because they learned how to assess a businessplan in business school), and because they open several, the risk is mitigated (if one shop doesn’t “work out” just fire the workers and close it, putting the cost on the other shops).
This is classic business, and you can even have a go at it yourself (at big risks as you can probably only open one shop yourself, but you can, maybe).
A sidenote about Eat the rich, they are not business investors, they bought up the country, the government, law and order, they are breaking the social contract and even the contract of how money works, that’s why it’s not just important but for our own survival that we must “eat the rich”.
Just because you lack the ability to create work doesn’t mean others do. I’ve seen people start a restaurant and hire workers, creating work for them to do
That’s because there was a need, a demand.
Demand is made by policy, global economy and so, not by some hard working person, that person “just” (it can for sure be hard work, I’m not denying that) fills an existing need.
Upvoted for being very unpopular (and wrong but that’s not the point of this place).
Goddamn, a take so stupid and money fellating it could even get a Hapsburg cock hard.
Saying a rich person who doesn’t even know you exist isn’t the reason for your issues in life is stupid in which way? Do elaborate
No thanks, I don’t waste my time talking to brick walls. Good luck in activating those neurons though.
But you just talked. What you mean is you can’t answer that
Why the downvotes? This is an unpopular opinion if ever I have seen one 😁!
Reads more like a lazy troll than a sincerely held opinion.
Probably a troll but he did put some effort onto it, if it isn’t slop ofc.
The truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth.
Thats definitely going to be an unpopular opinion here lol
Well, it is called Unpopular Opinions.
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Why do you all let these 1 day old accounts troll you? lol
Troll. A term used by people too emotionally weak to hear someone’s opinion that differs from theirs
I was going to answer but, in accordance to rule 1 of this particular community, I guess I’m not allowed to reply in any meaningful way.
That’s truly unpopular: so upvote. I do disagree.
I think what people generally mean, atleast here, are the billionaires.
Unfortunately you and your family can not live securely or comfortably on this forsaken earth without having substantial amount of saved money, which already makes you richer than quite a large chunk of people. For instance most middle income level savings can be completely wiped off by a single serious illness. So it is more understandable for people wanting to be somewhat rich so that they can live carefree their only one life. I have to note though, it is still a short coming of the society that you need to be rich to be comfortable, but anyways.
Wanting to be a billionaire? That is probably a symptom of some sort of mental illness (not an expert, personal opinion). Call it addiction to success (like addiction to gambling), sociopathic levels of lack of empathy or narcissism but they just can’t stop trying to get more. I know a bunch of people who own their companies with ~hundred people working in it, producing useful stuff and what not and they are not even upwards of a millionaire. You don’t go up in the billionaire game without finding shady ways of hoarding power and influence. At the least you have to kill competition and create monopoly. And in worst cases we have people like Elon Musk who meddle in the political affairs of other countries and support right wing extremism so that he gains a bit more influence. Or we have people like Ellison who would rather have the whole world turn into obedient money milking cows so that what, a hundred people in the billionaire narcissists club can live like emperors?
So eat the billionaires? Don’t mind if we do.
You don’t need to be rich to live comfortably. And would it be a problem if the billionaires ate you?
If a serious illness can wipe your savings or you need to go under a 30 year loan to buy a flat, you are not living comfortably. If you work your ass off but still have to sacrifice from your comfort or wishes during a holiday season then you are not living comfortably. If you need to trade any one of these for the other or any of these for your kid’s education then you are not living comfortably. And many people don’t.
And would it be a problem if the billionaires ate you?
They already are eating everyone who is weaker than them.
I love how your one example for an evil billionaire is bill gates, who as far as billionaires go, is honestly pretty middle of the road.
What exactly has bill done that marks him as the clearly evil one among the ~2000 billionaires?
Do you research. He caused paralysis and sterilization of hundreds of thousands of poor children in “developing countries”.
That’s definitely unpopular. I agree that people work money are not necessarily the problem, but did it you see those animations connotation thousand work hundred thousand, with a million, with a billion? There’s a good percentage where the accumulation of wealth is reaching such absurd levels that’s it’s unfathomable for humans.
