That’s such a small number. I bet there might be one or two near you even. You can just Google it!
Is it physically imposing to have body guards, inaccessible private residences, and having all law enforcement agencies specifically care about your wellbeing?
We still outnumbered them, vastly. Let’s say each one employs 100 body guards. That’s still 303000 against 5.5 billion (adult population).
And?
Organize, is the point they are driving at. We the people have the numbers to be literally unstoppable, the trick is getting all those people moving in the right direction.
the trick is getting all those people moving in the right direction.
Turns out only a handful of things in all of history have pushed people out of social boundaries and into a realm of discomfort and possible consequence:
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Fear and hate. Always number one here, if you get enough people scared together, they can be driven anywhere. Most people don’t think, they feel. Feelings drive the motions and actions.
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A greater discomfort than breaking social norms and potentially going to jail- IE: starvation, homelessness, genocide, etc.
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Extremely charismatic people who capture enough political capital that they’re given the opportunity to gather large numbers of people for a cause. These are usually politicians who are well trained in how to influence people, and typically use item #1 to enforce their goals.
Right now we don’t have any of these things. We also don’t have political capital or organized power such as uniting behind nationalism or guns to demonstrate our ability to actually disrupt the system. This makes us a target by the state, and the state protects capital right here, right now.
We can still fix this through political action and organization, and if we do, we can actually create systems that protect the world from more lich-kings rising up and swallowing all of our work and money. It just takes more social involvement than we’re doing now… and since just that seems too much for most progressive-minded people, I don’t have a lot of hope that we’re going to do any of the other, more forceful things that require a LOT more cohesion.
Reality sucks. I know. But we can influence it.
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well duh but youre just making my point in a nicer fashion which is those numbers don’t do anything if they aren’t moving in the right direction
And?
only if we are alone.
One time I saw NK Jemisen , author of the broken earth trilogy give a talk. Someone asked about climate change and she said something like “there’s only a small number of people responsible for most of this problem, and we know where they live”
The audience cheered and clapped. The guy moderating the talk got real flustered.
She’s a great author and person.
The audience cheered and clapped.
And that was the full sum of their efforts.
I couldn’t get into the first book, but hearing that story will motivate me to give it another shot. Well at least put it back on the list.
Hey btw I really wanna meet a rich fella in DC
Heard he like playing golf, we could hang out sometime, maybe I can teach him a bit of hunting 😏
There are literally 8 billion people on Earth, for context. That’s roughly a 2,700,000:1 ratio.
There’s only one in my country AFAIK and he’s not even from here, just registered here for tax purposes.
Regardless, i would recognize him in the street. And I wouldn’t be the only one.
Might need to encourage that number back to 0.
Most pieces of shit people, like billionaires and shitty corporate idiots and corrupt politicians, know that most of the rest of the human race are decent. And that the decent people won’t track them down and take revenge.
What the world needs right now are some only ever so slightly indecent people to step up, get the guillotines ready, and take out the scum bags.know that most of the rest of the human race are decent
The proportional amount of people who happily support these regimes, and/or don’t care… I have doubts.
Just pretend it’s the 1800s when a settler can come in and destroy the local inhabitants- it’s called might makes right and now America grew. Just go in and take it. Manifest Destiny. Most of the maga crowd approved of the conquest and genocide./sarcasm
/sarcasm
What about their private security?
Does their security have security? Those guys can’t be in multiple places at once.
I think you overestimate a lot of them.
I think dealing arms, rigging elections and bribing politicians is imposing people, but what do I know.
What a strange thing to think. They might not be physically imposing but they sure are in many other ways.
If you Internet Tough Guys were ever going to do anything, you would have already. This is nothing more than an impotent circlejerk, not to mention it also violates Rules 3 and 4 of this community.
