Submitted 13 hours ago by ivanafterall@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
That’s such a small number. I bet there might be one or two near you even.
The thing that annoys me the most is the amount of money it takes to protect their wealth.
Even if you factor out tings like the police and the army, the money paid for private guards and security alone is in the hundreds of millions. Add in the accountants, lawyers, bankers, and associated finance gurus and you’ve got enough to make college free for everyone on Earth.
That about sums it up. They’ll spend a million to prevent giving a thousand to the poor.
And that goes for all of these fucking leeches: The beloved pop star. The legendary athlete. The really nice lady who gave away ten billion. The soft-spoken revered investment guru who cosplays as middle class.
Every damn one of them.
I mean to be fair I’d spend a dollar to stop people from asking me for dogecoin investments.
But I also like, work, and pay taxes and shit.
The thing that annoys me the most is the amount of money it takes to protect their wealth…the money paid for private guards and security alone is in the hundreds of millions.
Considering the above “protecting your wealth” instead of simply protecting yourself from hostile third parties is extremely disingenuous.
simply protecting yourself from hostile third parties
That is some seriously bootlicking, euphemistic nonsense right there.
Hey btw I really wanna meet a rich fella in DC
Heard he like playing golf, we could hang out sometime, maybe I can teach him a bit of hunting 😏
One time I saw NK Jemisen , author of the broken earth trilogy give a talk. Someone asked about climate change and she said something like “there’s only a small number of people responsible for most of this problem, and we know where they live”
The audience cheered and clapped. The guy moderating the talk got real flustered.
The audience cheered and clapped.
And that was the full sum of their efforts.
I couldn’t get into the first book, but hearing that story will motivate me to give it another shot. Well at least put it back on the list.
She’s a great author and person.
Is it physically imposing to have body guards, inaccessible private residences, and having all law enforcement agencies specifically care about your wellbeing?
We still outnumbered them, vastly. Let’s say each one employs 100 body guards. That’s still 303000 against 5.5 billion (adult population).
only if we are alone.
Most of them are multi billionaires, their children will inherit their estates when they pass, and most have more than one child. Which means that, when they do pass, we’ll actually have more billionaires than we do now.
Fucking hydras…
So we pass laws regarding inheritance.
Most pieces of shit people, like billionaires and shitty corporate idiots and corrupt politicians, know that most of the rest of the human race are decent. And that the decent people won’t track them down and take revenge.
What the world needs right now are some only ever so slightly indecent people to step up, get the guillotines ready, and take out the scum bags.
know that most of the rest of the human race are decent
The proportional amount of people who happily support these regimes, and/or don’t care… I have doubts.
Not too indecent though…
We need a national Cousin Eddie to step in.
“I am that guy.”
Yeah but they can hire people at things like Wagner.
They can, but do they? The richest people I knew were proud of being cheap. Drove themselves around, went out of their way to pay less for a can of Coke, that kind of thing. None had private security, and at least two were worth nine figures.
Yeah actually the ones i’ve known were not in the US, where personnel is cheaper. They had drivers and nannies but no bodyguards that’s true.
Had a rich friend in college, think ~10s of millions?( ¿I am totally making up a number, I had no idea) But they took me to a party in a remote neighborhood that had an airport complete with multiple helipads. Or at least there were a half dozen on the side off the tarmac.
You don’t know these people, they live in their own world’s. There’s a local chain of dealerships I’ve only heard whispers about the owner, he doesn’t go out in town.
There are literally 8 billion people on Earth, for context. That’s roughly a 2,600,000:1 ratio.
There’s only one in my country AFAIK and he’s not even from here, just registered here for tax purposes.
Regardless, i would recognize him in the street. And I wouldn’t be the only one.
Might need to reduce that number back to 0
What a strange thing to think. They might not be physically imposing but they sure are in many other ways.
I think dealing arms, rigging elections and bribing politicians is imposing people, but what do I know.
What about their private security?
How much do you think those guys really care about keeping some rich fuck safe? Enough to die for? I seriously doubt it.
No but enough to kill you
Do you really believe that the sight of OP is terrifying enough to sow fear into the hearts of ex-military, likely war criminal, murderous mercenaries looking for an excuse to hurt people?
The sudden increase of big talk and calls for violence on Lemmy in the past few weeks is beyond cringey and is no better than the MAGA fucks on Xitter and Truth cosplaying as “Meal Team Six”. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. If you want to be a “martyr for the cause” by taking out some billionaire or fascist, that’s your choice. Buy a rifle, a pistol, and a knife and go train. Just don’t get on the Internet and start trying to convince others to do what you are incapable or unwilling to do.
CONTEXT: I used to live in Fort Walton Beach, home of disproportionate number of “private security” guys. I have been part of the tech sector at the executive level for many years, and I currently live in Jackson Hole, Wyoming; home of an unusually high number of billionaires. I have met a lot of private security guys on the job or at the bar. Do not confuse them with rent-a-cops.
I think you overestimate a lot of them.
Does their security have security? Those guys can’t be in multiple places at once.
If you Internet Tough Guys were ever going to do anything, you would have already. This is nothing more than an impotent circlejerk, not to mention it also violates Rules 3 and 4 of this community.
El_guapazo@lemmy.world 47 minutes ago
Just pretend it’s the 1800s when a settler can come in and destroy the local inhabitants- it’s called might makes right and now America grew. Just go in and take it. Manifest Destiny. Most of the maga crowd approved of the conquest and genocide./sarcasm