> Every day I wake up and it feels we're moving closer to torches, pitchforks and guillotines

The billionaires who are consolidating control over the media and social media would want nothing more.

thot_experiment 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Billionaires are providing much less value than we would have if random kids who lost the birth lottery were empowered to reach their potential to help society. We should not allow them to exist.

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Avicebron 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You keep saying this, care to explain?

	▲	JumpCrisscross 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I feel like I’ve just said this once, but sure. Plenty of prominent billionaires have openly aligned with authoritarian over fairly-elected government. The fact that the media and social media properties they control promote divisive, pitchfork-y content doesn’t strike me as a coincidence. In a violent revolution, even if successful, based on historic pattern, those billionaires would concentrate economic and political power. It was the fact pattern in the French Revolution. It’s been true for every post-WWII revolution too. It will probably get more and more true and people and assets become more and more mobile. The only exceptions were the pre-WWII Communist revolutions; that pattern ended with jet travel.