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"To My Fellow Filthy Rich Americans: Wake Up, People. The Pitchforks Are Coming"
Excerpted from Nick Hanauer's OpEd in Politico (read more here),
Memo: From Nick Hanauer
To: My Fellow Zillionaires
You probably don’t know me, but like you I am one of those .01%ers, a proud and unapologetic capitalist. I have founded, co-founded and funded more than 30 companies across a range of industries—from itsy-bitsy ones like the night club I started in my 20s to giant ones like Amazon.com, for which I was the first nonfamily investor.
I tell you all this to demonstrate that in many ways I’m no different from you. Like you, I have a broad perspective on business and capitalism. And also like you, I have been rewarded obscenely for my success, with a life that the other 99.99 percent of Americans can’t even imagine.
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But let’s speak frankly to each other. I’m not the smartest guy you’ve ever met, or the hardest-working. I was a mediocre student. I’m not technical at all—I can’t write a word of code. What sets me apart, I think, is a tolerance for risk and an intuition about what will happen in the future. Seeing where things are headed is the essence of entrepreneurship. And what do I see in our future now?
I see pitchforks.
At the same time that people like you and me are thriving beyond the dreams of any plutocrats in history, the rest of the country—the 99.99 percent—is lagging far behind. The divide between the haves and have-nots is getting worse really, really fast. In 1980, the top 1 percent controlled about 8 percent of U.S. national income. The bottom 50 percent shared about 18 percent. Today the top 1 percent share about 20 percent; the bottom 50 percent, just 12 percent.
But the problem isn’t that we have inequality. Some inequality is intrinsic to any high-functioning capitalist economy. The problem is that inequality is at historically high levels and getting worse every day. Our country is rapidly becoming less a capitalist society and more a feudal society. Unless our policies change dramatically, the middle class will disappear, and we will be back to late 18th-century France. Before the revolution.
And so I have a message for my fellow filthy rich, for all of us who live in our gated bubble worlds: Wake up, people. It won’t last.
If we don’t do something to fix the glaring inequities in this economy, the pitchforks are going to come for us. No society can sustain this kind of rising inequality. In fact, there is no example in human history where wealth accumulated like this and the pitchforks didn’t eventually come out. You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It’s not if, it’s when.
Many of us think we’re special because “this is America.” We think we’re immune to the same forces that started the Arab Spring—or the French and Russian revolutions, for that matter. I know you fellow .01%ers tend to dismiss this kind of argument; I’ve had many of you tell me to my face I’m completely bonkers. And yes, I know there are many of you who are convinced that because you saw a poor kid with an iPhone that one time, inequality is a fiction.
Here’s what I say to you: You’re living in a dream world. What everyone wants to believe is that when things reach a tipping point and go from being merely crappy for the masses to dangerous and socially destabilizing, that we’re somehow going to know about that shift ahead of time. Any student of history knows that’s not the way it happens. Revolutions, like bankruptcies, come gradually, and then suddenly. One day, somebody sets himself on fire, then thousands of people are in the streets, and before you know it, the country is burning. And then there’s no time for us to get to the airport and jump on our Gulfstream Vs and fly to New Zealand. That’s the way it always happens. If inequality keeps rising as it has been, eventually it will happen. We will not be able to predict when, and it will be terrible—for everybody. But especially for us.
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Or that the pitchforks are the solution and that is why he named them specifically.
There truly are no solutions, because the only true solution is a ctrl/alt/del, and that's not going to happen any time soon because pitchforks, or even AK47s M16's or whatever ain't going to do shit against a tank, or worst, an invisible drone that can shoot a Hellfire missile up your ass. Unless some sort of high ranking military coup takes place (not holding my breath) nothing is going to change while the government controls the indus/military complex, and indus/military complex control the government. A truly evil Ying Yang.
Yeah, that's working REAL well in Afghanistan, isn't it? And Iraq, and Viet Nam too!
There's a solution, but it involves destroying the banking elite who currently rule this nation state and many others. That isn't going to happen though without a lot of blood being shed.
If money = power, why do we give it away so easily?
Disengage the thives' economy on all non-essential functions.
We are literally paying to maintain the status quo every time we pay our smartphone plan, netflix sub, go out to a movie, buy a new anything, and everything else that is called "middle class".
If people can't put down something as simeple as their phone, why do they expect any real change?
The solution was there.
He just says he doesn't like it...and wants to stave it off a while.
The solution is the pointy stick and I like it.
I also admire the shape of this man's skull. Wonder how much of his Scotch I can pour in it?
you clearly didnt read the full article. click on the full article link. tyler just cherry picked parts to boost his reads, clicks and comments.
The last line of the full article clinched it for me: It's all about just getting richer.
Right or Just has never mattered with these individuals.
Fear, fear is the mind killer. Fear is beginning to be felt.
Private jets filing flighrt plans to Paraguay coming soon.
Which is why if this were to happen, not one cancer cell of the human race should be denied phagocytosis, or the malignancy of the body of mankind will just come back eventually with a vengence, but with a greater immunity.
Your bloodlust is something you share in common with the "cancerous" people. You might be gazing a little too much into the abyss. Having the streets run with blood is not a recipe for happy times.
Not at all bloodlust, but I don't see the historical global aristocracy giving up reign over our lives without a fight to the death. Not after thousands of years (you think this is a recent event, even the past century?). History hath shown that you can't "put them in their place". They just slither into the shadows and immediately start plotting again, only with more legacy knowledge gained from each time they're driven into the shadows and allowed to remain there. You're talking about 100K people globally, at most, that need a good trial and good public hanging to save a humanity of 70,000 times greater. Would you try and hang every 70,000th person to save the others ? Particiularly if the former were guilty of horrendous crimes against humanity?
He's trying to appeal to the only thing they care about: selfishness.
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So what is he suggesting? Run for their jets now? The health of a system is preserved by competition. When you kill everything with roundup, the most immediate response is weeds. The corruption that has been enabled by the government and power elite has killed healthy competition and all that is left are those willing to feed off the flesh of the dead and dying.
People must believe in justice and equal opportunity for all if they are to expend effort to achieve. The mega rich could all go out and commit suicide today and it wouldn't change the structure of our economy. Until the rules are reinstated and justice confirmed, the economy will only degrade.
This guy's only solution if you go to the website is to raise the min wage to $15???
Nope. He's among the clueless .01%.
First thing to do is to END THE FED.
He says he is not particularly smart, yet he obviously thinks he is smarter than most, so where does that leave us?
Wealth inequality is not a problem of people with money, it is a symptom. The problem is not government dictating too low of minimum wage, it is that government dictates much of anything at all. There will always be inequality and as he suggests that will never change, but the disparity demonstrates that the rules are broken. Yes, wealth can influence or buy legislation that benefits them. Its not the wealth, it is the power that is afforded to people who can be bought. People always have and always will be susceptible to bribery and the lust for power.
We should work to ensure our system is not vulnerable to this kind of corruption rather than focus on killing the symptoms of it. What the super wealthy have is of no concern to me. The only thing important is how they got it and how that effects my ability to prosper. It is the system that is crushing us, not rich people.
This document by F. Roderich-Stoltheim is a at-length discussion of the problem and how things changed:
https://ia601607.us.archive.org/6/items/TheRiddleOfTheJewsSuccess/TheRid...
Read this and see if any of it sounds familiar...the movement away from the small family-owned shops and trade guilds into the consolidated and aggregated environment that we find ourselves in now.
Pathetic anti-semitic nonsense that discredits people that have serious and legitimate issues with the present social structure. I would rather non-politely suggest that you not associate with us. You contaminated my harddrive with that crap.
The problem is the the super rich are the ONLY constituents of government that matter to government. Therefore it is their government, not yours.
You have this backwards. The super rich created this mess VIA government, not the other way around.
The proverbial bone.
You can take that one of two ways.
it's the ghost of ayn rand, back from the grave, and it's a man, baby.
i think....no i'm sure....Nick Hanauer is in love with Nick Hanauer (there's hetero, there's homo, and there's hanauer)
ayn and nick walk into a bar. the bartender yells at them: "hey, you can't bring that hanauer in here; this is a respectable gay bar."
Raise the minimum wage and ensure a higher first rung on the ladder for the young, the uneducated, the untrained and unskilled and those with checkered work histories and create gpvernment induced subsitution of capital for labor effects, yeah that'll help.
If we had sound money, our wage rate would be moot. The amount we are being paid is meaningless as long as we continue to have a system that steals our purchasing power through inflation.
Chief, he isn't interested in lasting change to fix the system, only to tweek the system to save his ass. "Let them eat cake"
"This guy's only solution if you go to the website is to raise the min wage to $15???"
Why stop there Nick? Since raising the minimum wage won't hurt businesses, let's just make it $25/hour?
Seriously, is this his only solution? What a dolt.
How about we get the hands of government out of our pockets so that everyone has more money to spend?
How about we reduce the size of government by 50%?
Eliminate crony capitalism, get money out of politics, term limits, pass a fair tax/flat tax, stop printing money, end the FED, return to a gold standard, stop fighting endless wars...
I have at least 100 solutions to promote economic growth before raising "the minimum wage"...one of which is eliminating the minimum wage!
80% reduction
For the last time. It's not Corruption, its gone far beyond that. You're useing the wrong C word.
Its CRIMINAL & should be referred to as such.
Bingo. And Hanauer's cluelessness over this fact is evident as well, coming through loud and clear in this statement:
"...we will be back to late 18th-century France."
No, no, buddy. The elite--the criminal elite--has achieved and sustained power by destroying the rule of law. Get it? That takes us back to 1215 at a minimum, not the 1700s.
We are seeing the last stage of an empire's death, and that's the looting stage. They know things are about to collapse in a horrible way, so those in power are grabbing everything they can before the music stops. How much time is left is easily determined by how brazen the looting is too.
People must believe in justice and equal opportunity for all
Exactly. And this doesnt mean that there must be equality of outcome. It means that there are rules and they apply equally to all. That is manifestly not the case today. I am not holding my breath though. Politicians have now seen that the only sure way to get votes is to pay for them. Appealing to principal in a country where the notion of principle has become a quaint anachronism is the way to lose. Too many have come to prosper by cheating, after which everyone understands that if you play by the rules you are a chump. So there is a regress. It only ends I fear with a painful reset, though that could be pretty far off in time.
In any event, if this guys solution is more government rather than less, then he can be one of the first hoisted on the end of the fork.
Notice that he used the word "believe" as opposed to stating there must be justice (as a normal person/goy might). Incidentally, the tribe love to play with words, and never, never, even upon threat of death, perform even the slightest level of introspection.
Basically, what "justice for all" means to me is that you can't steal $1.2 billion of your clients' money and still be chilling at your seaside mansion in the Hamptons.
With increasingly discredited "news"
Behind false accusations of "You hate the Jews!"
The Zio Banking Elite
Are in for a treat
Guillotine or rope they must choose
People should say what they mean and mean what they say. In this case...
I'd prefer it if he talked about INEQUITY*, rather than Inequality. Big difference: Inequity is the Cause, Inequality is the Effect.
* As in "Undeserved Equity"
The French and the Russian revolutions are bad examples, as they were both instigated and steered by the hidden hand.
You say that like this one isn't as well.
Hidden hand or not, know who you are and what you stand for.
"Greet them with a velvet glove and crush them 'neath an Iron Hand."
- From "The Clerical Conspiracy" by Sabbat
I think all men need to find their closest expression of the protagonist from The Princess Bride. Learn how to wield something, bear some pain...
A must read/watch for anyone that has not...
Perhaps, but the Russian revolution tightened a few sphincters among the well-to-do...In the years following we got the 1930's labor movement, and social programs designed to pacify the masses.
If TSHTF again, I'm sure we'll see the same thing replayed as the wealthy, faced with the very real possibility of losing it all, decide it is better to let some of it go and calm the crowds before everything gets out of hand.
We may even see very wealthy folks DEMANDING "we" do something for all those poor folks. Trying to switch sides when they see their team is losing.
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
Or, be aware of the intentions of those you associate with.
The existence of the Fed is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for the way things are today. You also have to take into account regulatory capture (revolving doors with regulators and K Street,) and limitations on how much cheap energy can be produced. We are on a decline anyway, and the Fed and the corruption is just making it worse, and We, The People have allowed it to come to this. May we live in interesting times. We deserve it.
I'd like to add that...
The revolving door of regulatory capture goes well beyond the financial sphere. It's all branches. FDA to Pharma and Biotech...EPA to oil and Monsanto...Pentagon to MIC. Name your branch of the gov hydra....there is a corrupt nest waiting for the corresponding bureaucrat waiting in the "private sector". So fucking inbred.
Shit show from the get go.
Yes and isn't that really fascism by definition? If not, what is fascism, then?
Nor a word about ending crony capitalism, letting real free markets rule, reducing barriers for small businesses.....he just wants to buy off the disgruntled with more leftist giveaways so he can keep his billions. I wouldn't trust this guy with a cockroach.
Bingo; you win the chicken dinner.
The writer is correct he is not that bright. He took mom and dads company and made a few investments now he can tell us how to live. Bring down the regulatory barriers, let us start businesses without worrying we will lose our homes with the a-z licensure crap, the .gov burden is unbearable and the taxes worse. It is nearly impossible to put the cash together to bootstrap anything I know, I'm trying..
I don't think he addresses the how anywhere. First there needs to be admission that things NEED to change. The how is the vehicle that gets us there. The vehicle must be the right one (like look how crappy QE turned out) but first the acknowledgement of the problem needs to happen.
I love the phrase "I know there are many of you who are convinced that because you saw a poor kid with an iPhone that one time, inequality is a fiction." SNORT.
Dumb a$$ just put a target on his back.
I smell bulldookie.
Good weekend folks.
As smart as Nick Hanauer may be, I don't see one word in his letter re. central banking and the Federal Reserve as the source of the inequality.
Nick doesn't want to draw too much attention to his fellow Tribesmen.
It looks like he's made his wealth in his own lifetime and so he's like the 99.9% of people that haven't read or understood Tragedy and Hope, or creatures from Jekyll Island, or have studied history under Quigley. He's not going to be in that inner circle of multi generational wealth of those who understand how to successfully lend money to sovereign entities.
Somehow, and here is a my gripe of have towards posters who advocate violence against the "banksters" I think that everyone of us who accepts a "highly" paid in fiat jobs, takes a mortgage and credit card and has a life that is vastly better than royalty of a 100 or so years ago (most probably everyone who reads and posts here) is actually part of the ponzi. In other words the banking system is part of a vast machine powered by oil that gives a lifestyle that could only be dreamed about by the majority a mere hundred or so years ago.
I don't necessarily have a problem with people inheriting wealth as long as the original means to acquire and then keep it were legal, and without special privileges. And that the inheritance was subject to rules that apply to all of us. I have a problem when someone presents himself as a self-made man and isn't, like this guy.
Owned by the Hanauer family since 1924, Nick Hanauer (fourth generation) is now chairman and CEO of the company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Coast_Feather_Company
Yup stand correcting but still ... he's nowhere near the inner
Bingo.
As soon as FDR's name came up in the op-ed, I knew this guy was full of shit.
The crash was supposed to bring cheaper everything from homes to farms. It was suppposed to free all the trapped capital in innefficient banks and transfer it to successful banks. This is natural stimulus that always works very well. But No. We didn't get that. We puffed up the values of banks, stocks, farms, and homes using printed money. Walking dead banks and companies have trapped capital with no plan to redeploy for efficient reasons. Profit motive has been replaced by government pork contracts. R & D is nowhere near as profitable as political bribes. Production has been replaced by finanical chicanery and government-subsized tax avoidance strategies that only reward overseas production. All of this has replaced paychecks with welfare checks for 50 million working age adults. This all started with TARP and the banks whining that they need to pay bonus in 2008 to their "talent".
It's just so simple: We reward the wrong things. What happened to us?
Hanauer is over at Naked Capitalism as well:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/06/rich-arent-job-creators.html
I agree Pinto. I would add that he should mention the working class getting crushed by the illegals as well. Sealing the borders would take some energy out of the pitchfork people as they went back to work for a fair wage
Translation: There's still time to buy your pre-fabricated underground bunkers from my survivalist supply company. We also have pallets of dried food for long term storage and 1,000 gallon capacity water tanks. You know how to reach me. Use the secret 0.01% communications network.
I am Chumbawamba.
If more Americans turn off the tv and take one afternoon to actually examine the seminal event of our time... It is certainly a possibility:
http://zionismsucks.com/2014/06/27/the-hard-facts-about-911/
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
Henry Ford
I got up real early this am and took my dog (shephard mix) out east to some beach I found and let her swim for a few hours. After washing her off and heading back home I stopped in Southampton and grabbed a cup of coffee and was walking right through town (tried to link google maps, did not work)
There were people sitting there and on a bench was some older(ish) wealthly looking broad with her labradoodle piece of shit animal leashed to the bench. As I walk past this rat thing charges at my dog and my dog moved towards me in time and the rat dog just kept going nuts. The broad stands up and says "keep your dog away from my dog" and then picks up her dog and says "that's okay we did not like that dog anyway". I stood there and then I just said loudly "This is why the world hates you fucking people". I then started walking back with my dog towards her (my dog does not have a mean bone in her body but is lean and mean looking) and I started yelling at my dog "Attack! Attack!", The people sitting in their seats got up and scurried a few feet away and the woman started screaming for someone to help. Meanwhile my do just kept looking up at me like "what?"
I don't believe the pitchforks are coming but they can't come soon enough.
Did you expect any less there in the Hampton Bays?
Your story reminds me of that Italian movie (which Madonna later decimated) where this servant and the rich bitch were shipwrecked and reached a deserted island. That's how I think it will turn out (unless they bunker up).
Nah, you are right. I know it well out there. But christ I was out there for 2 mins and my blood pressure went through the roof.
Solzhenitsyn should be required reading for everyone. Either we realize our collective power or find ourselves in a Hunger Games, Brave New World, and Orwellian hell.
I wonder what he would think of today's society?
That's great, Fonz
Keep 'em there, I'm heading out to montauk for a couple weeks and the motherfuckers think they can 'come hang with the little people at Cyril's'
I swear, I'm killing a waspy motherfucker this year!
Please make sure said waspy motherfucker is a bond trader or banker.
Thanks.
Hampton bays is mostly blue-collar in the middle of much more affluent areas
That is correct. I was on main street in Southampton. I was not going to break his balls about which hampton.
Similar story slightly different location.
Chemical blonde middle aged overweigt coming out of the salon ready for a game of Mahjong, gets into a huge red Caddilac and bumps my tiny 10 year old college car. (bumper scratch) I get out and I say, "lady watch out coming out of the parking spot like that".
She gives me a contemptous look top to bottom, looks at my car and says: "My car is better than yours" and she drives off.
You should have thrown yourself onto the ground, yelling, "Oh God! I can't feel my legs! I can't feel my LEGS!"
Even better if you had a couple of friends run over saying, "I got the whole thing on my cellphone! Somebody call 911!"
That scenery would have caused it to be an expensive bump, guaranteed.
You guys know what I meant. I have to drive through those areas to get to those delicious Montauk lobster rolls.
"that Italian movie (which Madonna later decimated) where this servant and the rich bitch were shipwrecked and reached a deserted island. That's how I think it will turn out (unless they bunker up)."
Written and directed by Lena Wertmueller: "Swept Away by an unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swept_Away_by_an_Unusual_Destiny_in_the_Blu...
A much better film on the subject of reversing roles than Wertmueller's "Swept Away" is the classic "The Servant":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Servant_%281963_film%29
Written by Pinter and directed by the great American Joseph Losey. A brilliant film.
The first thing you did wrong was go to Southampton.
I want to be there when someone on here finally takes their anger out on Corzine.
Lol, got an address?
dude just take a stroll around the town of Easthampton any weekend and you will see him walking around. The cops there all wear crazy ass robo cop outfits and walk around giving Bentley's parking tickets. They look tough but will never knwow what hit them if you show up.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/nj-gov-jon-corzine-snapped-skul...
Is Easthampton the wealthiest of the Hamptons? (Inquiring minds want to know)
I used to work construction out there. Late 80's. I swore that I would kill some of those people with my bare hands... and since I was inherently better than them, I decided to leave instead. And now almost 30 years later, they have surrounded me, even - in the case of Corzine - ruled over me.
Find him. Find him for humanity's sake.
I bet we could raise your bail.
assuming they'd set one
And if you do bag him.
Your name will live FOREVER in project mayhem.
I'll carve the person a statue.
Great story and excellent move on your part. What an insulting bitch, should have been kicked a few times.
I know those people well. We always knew it was season because the bad plastic surgery showed up. And they don't eat cannolis.
Labrododdle. How to really ruin a Labrador. Loved by the douchebags because they are trendy. The dog probably just wanted to play.
Labrododdle
What have we become. Come OT with me a sec.
The new proposed name of the formerly racially insensitive named "Washington Redskins". The Washington Mighty Labrododdles. Go get em.
In 20 years, PETA.Gov will have that struck down in a "ruling", no doubt.
Hell. It's not like they named the team "Drunk Blackjack Dealing Injuns"...that would be too close to the bone.
Note that the Irish take no issue with Fighting Irish. Yeah. We fight. We drink. We wear stupid outfits once a year. Kiss our trashy Mick asses if you don't like it. We are comfortable with that. Sorry about your detached retina and the wired jaw. Jameson's a motherfucker sometimes and so are stereotypes.
How's about renaming the Redskins the Washington "Skimming Beaks", "Turncoat Dual-Citizens" or "Bignosed Bankers". Think Feinstein and Schumer wouldn't get a skybox for that? Oy.
Interestingly enough the "Washington False Flaggers" and "Washington Homeland Shultzstaffels" work pretty good, too. Think of the smart uniforms these guys could have! Hell, the can wear the same ones they wear on entry team duty. Cheney and McCain would not miss a game and Linsey Graham can be a Cheerleader full time, she's had plenty of practice.
As you were.
Michelle Antoinette is in the WH as we speak and she already tells us what to eat."Let them eat arugula!"
Lady Liberty stands in the harbour of NYC for a reason. It was earned once. Do it again, correctly this time.
Lucky I'm already in New Zealand I guess..
Awesome.
Are the men still men?
Sheep still scared?
don't know if i came uo with the link though libblitz...but spent two very good hours with him last night-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txugDFRVbeQ
and for good measure a new very good hour with k.austin fitts-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txugDFRVbeQ
as for the reference to the fellow above being censored by TED, he is not the only one... an ethnogenic guy and rupert sheldrake were also scuttled.
Same link twice.
Got CAF?
sorry about that (glad i came back 'cause it really is a good interview) fitts on guns and butter-
http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/104103
Newton's Third Law: For every action, there is an equal an opposite reaction.
There's a man
on the wing
of this plane!
Bitcoin = "open money"
Pinto,
I suggest you ask a few more questions first, for example: why is he getting press and publishing? Two, how do you picture neo-feudalism? An aristocracy with titles, lands and serfs? Like his idea of city-states? Billionaires become lords and ladies?
What about commerce, law and private property? If we unfence the commons, how do we reward investment to recover resources and produce goods? If legal systems remain, how do we lock out the psychopaths?
Don't get me wrong, I like some of his ideas, but the one that worries me the most is this: waitng for the Algerian fruit seller. None of what he espouses requires a revolution or violence. From the ashes, we see rise the tyrants in new clothes.
Tere is a reason certain people get their ideas expressed. They are often catalysts or propagandist for something that starts out well and then is turned on its' head.
He is saying something most of us have known for at least a couple years now.
John 3:16
Here he is on YouTube
http://youtu.be/qCnpe_bIsUI
... for the lazy, like me.
I dunno, Pinto. It could go down like you say; or it could go down more like this: http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2014/06/26/the-un-is-positioning-to-lo...
He's not a 1% er, but a 0.01% er? WTF? He must think he's pretty wealthy, or else he's delusional, or can't do math, or all the above.
At least he sees where this is going.
At 1% that means there are 3million of the "elite" in the USSA, not much of an elite really when nearly everybody will know a few of these guys.
Whereas 0.01% is 30,000 now we're talking much more of an elite.
i know it's a bit harder to say but let's stick to the 0.01% there are not 3 million "elites"
Sure, but what's an "elite"? The top 1% (or .01%) couldn't exist without the management class (say, the top 10%). And the top 20% help the management class. There's no "elite". There's just the smarter-n-savvier people and the dumb-n-clueless, or the job creators and the lessor people, or (perhaps) the predators and the prey.
The problem is that we've hit the end-of-game condition and nobody knows how to restart it. All games have a winner (or winning group). NOW what?
I junked you then changed it for your NOW what? challenge.
Ending the energy, money and military industries as we know them is a must. Ending the status quo in DC is also a must. Ending personal income tax IS A MUST.
Starting a regime of respect for individual liberty is a must.
damn your challenge!
If envy is your motive, hell, just kill anyone who has more than you do.
If justice is your motive it is slow, messy, difficult, imprecise and just plain hard. You would actually have to show how each person harmed you. I suspect that envy is the real driving factor here. Castro just shot everyone. I saw this on television when I was 12.
Hitler just blamed 'all the jews'. Stalin killed the mechants and farmers.
"kill 'em all'" seems to be the preferred approach....just depends on what your murderous impulses dictate.
btw this is not aimed at tonyw....it is really for all those thoughtful folks who want guillotines.
In France all it took was a mob. Motive (and the 'crime' of the indiviidual no longer mattered. Often those who were cheering in the crowd found themselves on the sharp side of the blade shortly thereafter.
Remember, here in the USA even welfare recipients are mostly in the 1% if you consider the whole world.
South Africa decided no to kill the whole population (of whites and opposition blacks). Reconciliation can work too.
Mass arrests give the wrong kind of people too much power. Usually a sadist winds up in charge.
MASSIVE Truth & Reconciliation trials will have to be held.
And there will be no team of lawyers to represent them either. Fractional reserve banking, usury, fiat currency, would all have to end. We can hope!
"Stalin killed the mechants and farmers."
Isn't that what's happening now?
Organized Religion keeps the poor from killing the rich. It's always been that way. For thousands of years.
Q: Why do you think that the Rulers of a country/nation favor one or few mass-marketed religions?
A: Control. Bitchez.
hierarchies with majority uni-form'd mens at the "top"
history, same as it ever was.
because god.
Tu ere maricón.
You sound like Raul and his mercenaries in the ANC and Angola. South African "reconcillation" was not any better than what Mugabe did in Rhodesia.
Yes, I know a couple of 1%ers (possibly one is a .1%er, having a 90,000 acre deeded ranch - thats about 300,000 people) who are decent people when you get down to it. They all got their wealth through hard work. I do not, however, know any 0.01%ers or any of the big wigs in the banking industry.
Pitchforks, hell. Guillotines.
Guillotines? Luxury!
Dull axes! Or Rope + Tree.
Where the hell were you when the state stole everything from me? In fact, where were any of my friends? They were yellow cowards to afraid too stand up to defend one of their own for FEAR that they might get noticed! Well, guess what dumb asses, that time has come.
A bit effin late to make that rather astute observation!
in the absence of a new source of very cheap energy -and NO tha does NOT mean fracked oil/gas-It doesn't matter. It will come regardless of what he or anyone else thinks about it
I strongly disagree with Nick.
How does Nick think people can get organized (on Faecesbook, Tw@tter etc) when every digital move we make is being monitored? Every text message is monitored, every email is monitored, everything we do or post on Faecesbook is monitored. Cell phones even track our movements. Should we go long on postal pigeons?
Ask the people in North Korea why they don't 'simply' grab a pichfork and rise up to the 0,000001% who run the country. Answer: they can't because they have been analogly and digitally neutered.
Nope, sorry Nick, I think we're already well past the point of no return: the 0,01%ers are firmly in control and I honestly do not forsee a pichfork uprising.
WE MUST NOT LOSE HOPE!!! THEN THEY HAVE TRULY WON. THE SYSTEM WILL COLLAPSE ON ITS OWN IF YOU SIMPLY LIMIT YOUR PARTICIPATION AND SPREAD THE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT MONEY CREATED AS DEBT.
EVENTUALLY THE 0.01% WILL OVERSTEP THE MARK, AND 9/11 WASN'T ENOUGH BECAUSE TOO MANY PEOPLE WERE FOOLED BUT THE KNOWLEDGE IS SPREADING NOW AND THE NEXT FALSE FLAG WILL HAVE TO BE BIGGER AND MORE FAKE.
EVENTUALLY THEY WILL TRY AND GET FULL MOBILISATION TO CULL THE POPULACE OR THEY WILL DO IT BY ENGINEERED VIRUS...IF THEY TRY WORLD WAR I THINK TOO MANY WILL REFUSE TO FIGHT....VIRUS MAY BE OUR GREATEST THREAT AS I CAN SEE THEM EFFECTIVELY DENYING THAT THEY SYNTHESISED IT...
WHEN YOUR FAMILY START'S STARVING OR GETTING BOMBED HOWEVER, IT IS ALWAYS PITCHFORK TIME...I JUST HOPE ENOUGH OF US WILL GO AFTER THE CENTRAL BANKERS AND NOT THE MADE UP ENEMY LIKE JEWS, RUSSIANS, FASCISTS, COMMUNISTS, BLACKS, WHITES ETC.... WE MUST NOT BE DIVERTED. WE MUST FOCUS ON DESTROYING THEIR MONEY SYSTEM. WE MUST BE IRON-LIKE IN OUR RESOLVE AND END HUMAN DEBT SLAVERY FOREVER...ONCE THAT IS ACHIEVED MOST OTHER PROBLEMS WILL HEAL THEMSELVES...
Heffer I have my pitchfork sharpened and ready, can't wait.
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You'll make a fine target while the elitists are on there private jets away from us peasants. Have you not learned that yet?
Is a pitchfork like .308 or .223.
One of the very very few O voters in my hood is worth about $80 million or more. They are white. I won't be forgettin him.
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don't worry, pal. the sheep have been corralled and really love their enclosure. the eventual slaughter house is a concept that is beyond their ability to comprehend.
the same greedy mother fucker saying " i am rich coz i anticipate futur, i can make money, i am proud of money, too much inequality between rich & poor..."
so what, " sale enculé de file de pute de merde" give accumulated money back to poor like robin wood & go live in middle forest with a becker knife ??? or just shitting in the fan just to make you more visible...
amazon... this is the 21 century slavery , no right to pause more than 5min per day in the hangars but the boss saying " give more money to poor..." the SAME MOTHER FUCKING WANTIN INSTALL BOTS INSIDE HANGARS TO SUPPRES HUMAN WORKING.
the poor work for you alreay, stop made in china, nuke arabs countries, go full electric & make you own clothes.... IF YOU CAN....
mother fucker son of fuckin bitch, FUCK YOU, FUCKING FUCK.
"I have my pitchfork sharpened and ready, can't wait."
A pitchfork has 3 tines.
A manure fork has 5 tines.
I have two manure forks sharpened and ready.
Gotta use the proper tool for the job!
I don't have a pitch fork, I feel so left out now :(
Were do you guys typically buy those pitch fork at? On the other hand I think I have a pick axe winder if I can use that as a replacement...
Go to the local feedstore.
Get one with a strong handle!
He sees the writing on the wall.
Increasingly, we little guys aren't looking for justice, we're looking for vengeance.
so, the real question is if he was trying to have a discussion with his zillionaire cohort, then he thinks politico is the best place to reach them? this is no more than the Buffet game of appearing to be for the little guy while still taking all your tax breaks and profits. His description of the issue is dead on, his prescription is way off...
Hope they ask for the "Spit" on the Pitchfork.
2 1/2 Men...The Devil's Lube is Spit (Sheen, Estevez, Jones, and Cryer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzJwVSfyGNA
Best on-liner of the entire Series. "I waaaannntt the Spiiiiiiiiiittt!!!!!"
Ha! As if the 0.1% as well as the elected rulung political turd elites give a flying frack @ rolling donut for the serfs & peasants.
I'm saving the pitchfork for the "nice" .01'ers, most get the rusty knives and hydrochloric acid
Hummm.
Hydrochloric Acid.
I dig your style, fella.
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Gulfstream V? duh.. Consume and upgrade dude.. You need a G6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7QN0Re_In4
To be fair, I like this guy.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBx2Y5HhplI
Bring forth the guillotines!
Ah!!! That's where I've seen him before. The only TED Talk (that I'm aware of) to be censored (or removed from their website) by the TED Conference.
I'd like a citation X or a global express please. range on the GV is too low. I want to place my million dollar wagers in Taiwan w/o stopping for gas in euroland.
What a dipshit. If he truly felt like inequality was such an issue, then he would necessarily have prospered under an immoral system, no? Why then is he clamoring for tax changes without simply donating his own money to the treasury? If his excess wealth is so damaging to the economy, then why not spend it on blow and hookers? World class dipshit.
Forget the G6, buy a nice used 747 (plenty available), not as sexy, or fuel efficient, as the G6, but you renovate that sucker and you have yourself a flying mansion with all the comforts of home that can take you virtually anyplace on planet earth without refuelling.
Or pay some specialists to "acquire" you an Indonesian Dreamliner, maybe? Naw, nobody could pull off that shit.
It is not JUST the inequality, it is that the riches come mostly to the least deserving.
Even an otherwise innocent investor like this guy go on the suspect list in those circumstances, he's too right.
Well, things will go as they go, and the sooner the better.
You're just not bold and entrepreneurial enough to steal pensions from crippled old grannies, is all.
I Write Code It is not JUST the inequality, it is that the riches come mostly to the least deserving.
Even an otherwise innocent investor like this guy go on the suspect list in those circumstances, he's too right.
Well, things will go as they go, and the sooner the better.
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I am curious. What would you be posting if there were no millionaires and billionaires, but people were still in the plight they are in? What if everyone was in poverty? Who would you be blaming then?
There will be out of here in a flash on their private jet....
at some point there will be no place to land...
Not when you own your own islands....
Paraguay, complete with water and US Military.
and historical Nazi villages of fear-full in-breeders. . .
Thanks for the link, which is an interesting read.
FWIW there is in fact a difference between "Aryan" and "Nazi"; clearly, though, the word "Aryan" has acquired a certain darkness, due to its being embraced by the NSDAP and similar political organisations.
I hear that there is still quite a large number of Aryans around; Nazis, not so much.
yes, there is a difference between "nazi" and "aryan" - apologies for using a type of shorthand in my post.
all around the 'webs I'm seeing an ongoing "re-branding" of "aryan" cultural desig-nations, which I find quite interesting,
Reza Zia-Ebrahimi
little nudges to "historical definitions" all around us, from Hollywood to press & literature. . .everyone can choose what they believe is "true".
personally, I choose to understand history as a deliberately shaped concept of nationstates created to exploit humans, with nation-all boundaries shape-shifting when most profit-able, and wars the tool used to "explain" the new invisible lines. . .