Equality wont change until a revolution occurs. I'm not suggesting we kill the ultra wealthy, but based on the history of revolutions people have died to reestablish equality. Our government is corrupt as fuck. We have some hope in there with the new congress people, but if we want meaningful change any time soon, we absolutely need a revolution.
I was looking for CEO compensation for Citi from the 80s to contrast with what Corbat's getting now.
Yes but I meant to throw into contrast the ballooning of CEO compensation since then.
Fundamental and structural changes usually accompany death, whether through revolution or warfare or societal collapse, because it is a common trend for the ruling class not to give up their power voluntarily and fight for it to the bitter end.
Lol. No. I dont care if people make more money than me. Incentives in pay is important, but I dont need to clarify the statistics in income inequality to make my point.
Don't be so cartoonish or 'internet badass' about how they should all be hung from bridges or decapitated, and maybe people will start to take you seriously.
I still believe in the power of non-violent resistance. The elite can buy tons of security and they also control the security infrastructure. I can't see a French Revolution still uprising happening. It would be very bloody.
Wait those two sentences don't make sense in conjunction. It's because that they can buy physical and legal security that will escalate public reactions.
I'll concede that. But the rich are also cloistered in gated communities, upscale suburbs, and so on. Where are you confronting them?
People are already dying, it's just legal so no one cares or they don't notice it.
This describes Wall Street friendly politicians and overcompensated CEOs btw.
Dude, I agree with everything you said in the first paragraph I quoted. But you've got a lot of people here including mods who dig the whole death to rich people thing, so you don't have to worry as coming off as unhinged, I guess.
I think most of them are simply delusional in the sense that the value they've formed around what they do and achieve affords them a transcendent form, in their minds. Like they legit feel themselves to be higher beings because of what they are. You can see doses of this kind of ideology in most aspects of society, because we live under capitalism.
It changes from revolution to revolution but, as saenima said above, usually there's already death and suffering every day, just for the poorest people.
We're already sliding head first down this slope. Did you know there was another school shooting 4 days ago in Charlotte, NC? 2 deaths, 4 injuries.
