When the one percent starts to feel paranoid, Clay Cockrell is the first to hear about it. A therapist who specializes in treating the neuroses of the ultrawealthy, Cockrell says that many of his clients are in the privileged position of getting freaked out by eat-the-rich sentiments these days.
Make billionaires millionaires again.
Hey. No.
Make millionaires thousandaires again.
It’s not like there’s a history of killing them to make a new status quo! Maybe they shouldn’t be greedy pieces of shit and fucking over everyone else? Leeches.
Wow, shitting on their entire way of life. If tbey werent “greedy pieces of shit” they wouldn’t even be rich!
Maybe you should have some fucking empathy. And also let them harvest your organs so they can have extras.
Look, who are we to tread on these special people’s right to tread on billions of us? They’re just living their lives the only way they know how, y’all. They’re just like us!
Exactly! Egalitarianism is genocide!
EAT THE RICH
Boo fucking hoo
I can’t say I feel bad for them. I’m sure they have problems. But rich people problems always seem so petty when you compared them to the problems faced by people who are 24-7 stressed about whether their paycheck will cover their bills, or whether they are going to have a job if they say the wrong thing to their boss or a senior staff member. The trials that plague most of society are much more stressful than rich people problems. Just look at life expectations and you can see it. If some rich person wants to prove me wrong I will gladly let them switch places with me for a year and we can compare. Maybe I will learn something. And maybe they will understand the frame of their problems better…
They could always downsize their lives to be less exploitative and still live a life of leisure if they are that afraid for their safety, or better yet use their wealth to influence policies beneficial to the large majority of humans but they wont do either of those.
They just want to keep living the exact same way without consequences.
Zang
Good.
Even weirder to not be rich right now. Fuck them. They should feel it, greedy pigs.
For a long time here in the US, inequality has been treated as no big deal. “Oh, inequality is growing?,” said the business leaders and economists, “Why should we care?”
This is why.
Remember when Bruce Wayne was a millionaire?
And then a multimillionaire?
And then a billionaire?
When it boils over, the lesson it will teach society will be bloody and painful.
I doubt the lesson will be learned well.
It is never learned, not because people are dumb and can’t remember, but new people take the places of both sides.
The problem I have, is that some people DO learn the lessons, even from the books and stories left over from before. It’s just that the new people don’t care to learn anything.
It’s so disheartening.
Class politics is a learned generational institution. If I look at history I can see that technological disruption, and loss of social cohesion can dampen this.
Today in some countries, like the USA, we have a minimum of both teachers and examples that show such things are worthwhile. We have lost institutional knowledge about how to form unions, strike or protest.
This goes beyond the workplace.
Knowledge of how local municipal politics work and what is democracy is lacking. If one looks at how people vote, one sees a complete lack of awareness of vote counting or exit polls in the USA, replaced by a childish faith in some imaginary fair system that blindly picks the winners. Many great grandparents would scorn this. But there is nobody to tell the current people differently
Fear
In the immortal words of Good Charlotte:
They’re always complaining, always complaining. If money is such a problem, well they got mansions, think we should rob them.
Though ironically the Madden brothers ended up marrying rich.
To be fair they also said:
Talking on the phone, got an interview
With the Rolling Stone, they’re saying,
“Now you’re rich and now you’re famous
Fake-ass girls all know your name and
‘Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous’
Your first hit, aren’t you ashamed?”
Of the life, of the life we’re livingSo at least they’re self aware 😅
They should be afraid. They should feel fear.
They could always fix this by sharing the wealth
Have him pass along this message to those poor scared 1%ers
Good. How’s it feel to have others control your destiny? How’s it feel to be scared? They love doing it to us…
