Robert ReichFeb 7, 2024
Remember: The real freeloaders in this country are the rich, not the poor. The richest 1% evade $163 billion in taxes every year. The United States literally has a yacht tax deduction. Hello?
Show threadSk@tterBr@iNz
@rbreich and those same rich folks apparently have an outsized influence on our government at many levels. This effectively limits the power/influence of the poor, so really this is posturing on class divisions with no clear solution provided. And now overall trust in government, and election processes, is at an all-time low. I hear a lot of problems. What are your proposed solutions?
Feb 8, 2024 at 12:16amWeb
Show threadrustyFeb 8, 2024
@skatterbrainz @rbreich eat the rich.
Show threadSk@tterBr@iNzFeb 8, 2024
@mativity @rbreich ...and then what? Eat each other? I'm being facetious of course.
Show threadrustyFeb 8, 2024

@skatterbrainz @rbreich It's a metaphor to advocate for inter-class uprising or revolution amongst the lower and working classes against the corrupt billionaires.

It doesn't mean literally eat them.

Show threadSk@tterBr@iNzFeb 8, 2024
@mativity @rbreich I know. It's my knee-jerk response. So we eliminate the rich, so no CEO's and no tech companies, and no phones, apps or social media. No food services. Farms are overrun with urban idiots. Essentially, "Ted Kaczynski v.2 the Electric Boogaloo (the wood-fired edition)" 😜
Show threadSk@tterBr@iNzFeb 8, 2024
@mativity @rbreich (showing my age) in 1977 I was staying with my grandparents in Denver. A story came on the news about if the Soviets nuked Colorado, Denver would evacuate to the mountains. Then they interviewed a random mountain guy (missing most of his teeth) "Oh hell no! If them city folks even try, we'll dynamite the pass to keep em out!"
Show threadrustyFeb 8, 2024
@skatterbrainz @rbreich Yeah, well, you live in the US. The rest of us aren't quite so Fourth Amendment. 😉
Show threadrustyFeb 8, 2024

@skatterbrainz @rbreich This might happen anyway. But there won't be any nice transition anyway.

'Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.'

WB Yeats.

Show threadSk@tterBr@iNzFeb 8, 2024
@mativity @rbreich that 1% line is adjustable. Once each layer is gone, the line moves down to the next until having a toothbrush makes you rich enough to hunt. I've read some of those same sci-fi books
Show threadSk@tterBr@iNzFeb 8, 2024
@mativity @rbreich this thread is really a test to see if Mr. Reich really has anything to do with this account or has an unpaid intern (or AI bot) generating content.
Show threadSk@tterBr@iNzFeb 8, 2024
@mativity @rbreich ... basically, technically, pragmatically, we are all fleas arguing over a dog. We entertain ourselves by complaining and getting endorphin boosts from affirmation, but ultimately have zero impact on what happens at those top layers. Social media is just bread and circuses.
Show threadfloydgumpFeb 8, 2024
@skatterbrainz @rbreich How about just doing something different then whatever the hell we are doing now.We know what works and obviously what doesn't.The way of greed is definitely failing.
Show threadSk@tterBr@iNzFeb 8, 2024
@gumpfloyd @rbreich sure! Provide details on how. That's what everyone else is waiting for.
Show threadfloydgumpFeb 8, 2024
@skatterbrainz @rbreich That's what everybody else is for one person can't change the world.Ideas don't belong to me and me only.