The saying is "eat the rich" because "kill the rich" would get you banned from social media, yet eat implies cannibalism and is thus more offensive.

https://lemmy.world/post/1670088

The saying is "eat the rich" because "kill the rich" would get you banned from social media, yet eat implies cannibalism and is thus more offensive. - Lemmy.world

Eat the rich existed long before social media
TIL, but I still think it took off in the social media era in place of other phrases because it doesn’t directly suggest violence.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Eat_the_Rich_(Aerosmith_song)?… older than social media, it’s like saying “groovy” got popular because of influencers.
Eat the Rich (Aerosmith song) - Wikipedia

Zuck is a robot so this would not be cannibalism.
Which is hilarious because Aerosmith are now the rich that we’d be eating.

lol no they aren’t. I get the impression you’re pretty inexperienced given your responses in this post.

Aerosmith, collectively, hasn’t got enough to throw at something to make it do what they want it to. They have maybe a few hundred million. Bezos, Musk, even Trump who exists on credit and grifting can and do do that. It’s those kind of people (and I use the term “people” loosely) that the saying is directed at.

I just wanna get in them guts.

Not a social media thing. The original quote goes:

Rousseau, who was also one of the people, said: ‘When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.’

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat_the_rich

Eat the rich - Wikipedia

I miss being young.
“I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.” - Hannibal Lecter
Video game the rich.
Soylent Green the rich.
I’m personally a fan of “compost the rich”
Use the entire animal.
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