I've been wondering for some time

Because most of us dislike violence, even when it's necessary and justified.

Meanwhile, the rich have no problem using violence against us to protect their hoarded wealth or if they can profit from it in the slightest.

Because the most well-armed portion of the populace has convinced themselves that the lifestyle of the rich is within their reach and identifies more with them than with their actual peers.

I know we're having a laugh, but the time when this sort of action is even plausible is quickly running out.

because the rich have convinced one segment of the working class that the other segment of the working class sucks

Gritty agrees.

They would taste horribly. Let's just decapitate them and use as compost. Then they would be of some actual use.

Because everyone is just hoping to someday becoming rich and joining the upper class.

If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated. The Party could not be overthrown from within. Its enemies, if it had any enemies, had no way of coming together or even of identifying one another. Even if the legendary Brotherhood existed, as just possibly it might, it was inconceivable that its members could ever assemble in larger numbers than twos and threes. Rebellion meant a look in the eyes, an inflection of the voice; at the most, an occasional whispered word. But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They need only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it

We filled up on bread.

Because they're too busy hating each other over whose great grandparents oppressed who or who the other voted for.

Because cannibalism is wrong

Because they can't organize in the right way

Unironically, equating anything left wing with Marxist socialism even though there could be other forms.

left wing ideas tend to be heavily coupled with progressive social issues that most of the population only agrees with to an extent.

I think we're going to see a non socialist populist uprising though with multiple different groups. The elites will no doubt try to claim anyone remotely on the right of it is a raging white supremacist as they're already doing with populist uprisings.

Because you, dear reader, probably can't even pull together the motivation to make a sandwich most of the time, let alone take up arms and put yourself in harm's way.

Maybe they're saving it for sweeps.

"You first. (then I'll see if it snowballs)."

La Boetie wrote the "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude" in 1577. It's almost 500 years old now. There is no hope.

We tried that, but money seems to prefer the company of other money, and is better at organizing than people.

Mmmm rich people

Hollup, let him cook

Alright look, I hate the 1% too but can we start using new terms besides "eat the rich" and "haha guillotine go BRRRRRR"?

It gets kinda old when everyone says it.

I wouldn't want to eat beef from a cow treated with steroids or one with mad cow disease or an old cow minutes from death, so why would I want to eat Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, or Warren Buffett?

Because few break the conditioning imposed upon them to act. Those that do rarely are able to unite others.

Instead of subtly advocating for violence, maybe we should advocate for the election of persons who will make laws that will protect those who labor, as well as advocate for stronger unions.

I think the world has enough violence going on right now, that we don't need to advocate for more.

Edit: Just realized which community (ty 'no banana') I was posting my comment to.

So, never mind, I guess. /shrug

It always bothers me on labor day when I see stores open. I work at a desk 4 out of 5 days a week that is the extent of my "labor" and yet I get a day off.

Love a good shit post, lol. And it actually gets me thinking how something like 70% the world's wealth is held in the top 10% 🍽️ 🤤

Of course you need to make a monumental amount of money compared to the rest of the world, so we're willing to make that sacrifice! Just 10% of people in the world! 😂 I think it's $32k USD a year salary to be in the global top 10% of earners. And oh... $60k USD to be in the top 1%

So I'm kinda curious, OP, you on the menu?

Note this calculator is from 2019, so "deflate" accordingly

I swear these repots do better than anything I can come up with. Which I guess says more about my creative ability than anything.

I guess big money made people give up

For the same reason that some foreign workers are able to immigrate to a country and are so successful they end up in the 0.1%

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Agenda posts in my shitposting community? Why didn't I think of that?!

Because when that happens, we just find a new rich class, slightly below the ones we just ate. So they go too.. now there is a newest rich class, just below the previous.

And so on, until you're the new rich class.

Because the people who want to eat the rich, usually are the same group that wants to disarm everyone but the gov and rich...

Why don't women stop buying clothes until they get decent fitting shit with pockets?

Why haven't women just.... gotten rid of men entirely? as they say, women need men like fish need a bicycle