• LinkOpensChest.wav@lemmy.one
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    11 months ago

    Because most of us dislike violence, even when it’s necessary and justified.

    Meanwhile, the rich have no problem using violence against us to protect their hoarded wealth or if they can profit from it in the slightest.

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      11 months ago

      It sounds like we need to crowdfund the creation of a Private Military Company. We’ll need a good name for it.

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      11 months ago

      People need to remember that the Western culture rewards people with mental illness. Ultra wealthy are sociopaths to the core. This is why they can have no empathy for people. We all were scratching our heads how the Studio Heads in Hollywood couldn’t wrap their heads around fair treatment of their worker’s.

      These people aren’t evil, they are inherently broken. Normal people don’t aspire to do whatever it takes to trampled over others for gains.

      We need to stop rewarding the mentally ill with more money and instead put them in psychiatric wards.

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        11 months ago

        I have meet plenty of poor sociopaths. It isnt some super power. Maybe you just hear of the combination of rich and sociopath because no one cares that the guy who makes 20k a year towing cars lacks empathy.

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      11 months ago

      They do as well, the difference being they have enough money too disassociate themselves from their own actions and have someone else deal with the mental, social and financial repercussions.

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      11 months ago

      The whole “eat the rich” thing is pretty offensive to survivors of the Cultural Revolution, where there are several actual examples of political torture-cannibalism documented by the CCP. Though, in this case, the “rich” were just teachers and lawyers and other people deemed uppity.