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The Willful Suicide of the Ultra Rich
I oppose all violence but it may be impossible to save people who are this stupid.
The proper objective is to prevent evil actions and to enact benevolent ones.
But ordinary people everywhere are angry, and anger makes them stupid. In a similar way, greed and power lust makes the privileged elites stupid.
We’d all better get smart — and quick.
As a species, we are facing — or more accurately, refusing to face a series of ongoing crises. And we are running out of time.
Instead, the elites — who already own and control nearly everything — are fighting a war against everyone else. They want everything. Every goddam thing.
That’s their fatal flaw — unbounded greed and overreach. For them, there is no such thing as “enough.”
So, instead of enjoying lives of unearned and undeserved luxury and leisure, they ruthlessly attack the “have nots.”
There will be consequences.
Their Worst Behavior and Our Best
Struggling people do not and will not keep their problems to themselves. They never do.
Oh, they can be controlled for a time, perhaps even a long time.
