• switcheroo@lemmy.world
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    Good. Parasites should be afraid.

    (Not a call for violence. Just saying people who destroy lives should live in fear.)

  • DigDoug@lemmy.world
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    Everybody hates me. Am I really so out of touch?

    No. It’s the children general populace who are wrong.

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      I’ve ignored an unspoken social contract to help my communities and actively try to get all the wealth.

      Must be those damn commies who made me do it.

    • deft@lemmy.wtf
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      Has there ever actually been a crime wave?

      All I could imagine is economic turmoil that forces people to either not have enough money or not have a job, or both.

      Or lead in the gasoline that makes people crazy

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        Has there ever actually been a crime wave?

        70-90 was a real serious rise and fall of assaults, burglaries, car thefts, etc.

        We’ve had some minor waves during the opium epidemic and the big unemployment waves of '01, '08, '14, and '21.

        Or lead in the gasoline that makes people crazy

        Lead exposure, the different drug epidemics, big spikes in unemployment. They all contribute.

        That said, we also had White Collar crime waves. And these tended to predate the street level crime waves, as the crimes contributed to the conditions of the later.

        Nobody in political leadership really talks about the White Collar waves, though.

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          It just always feels like a Boogeyman phrase to me. But you’re right.

          White collar crime is, to me at least, the real crime. People being victimized on an individual level is cruel and awful but leaving hundreds scammed and destitute is disgusting and abhorrent

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            It’s been flogged as an existential crisis for decades past relevance. So it has become a Boogeyman, in the same way Terrorism lost any semblance of relevancy by the '10s, but keeps getting flogged into the modern day.

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    Hey Execs, do you think maybe if you need to hide behind armed security, that you might just be going down the wrong path by doing evil shit? Also armed guards won’t help you if you make the public mad enough and destroy enough lives to where it doesn’t matter if they live or not to them. Just a thought

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      Most of these execs are idiot nepo babies, so they lack any form of self awareness.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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      No.

      It’s everyone else who is wrong. You ignorant fools just can’t see how they are going to make life better for everyone.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    But they don’t stop. “Are we the baddies?” is overwhelmed by “I’m making lots of money, fuck the little peasants.”

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    Only takes one.

    We eat just ONE billionaire and they’ll all take notice.

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    What is the answer when the wealthy murder countless people but hide it by doing it indirectly?

    How are people supposed to make them stop?

    Because the murder that the wealthy are doing needs to stop.

    Everyone who is not them needs it to stop.

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        When does it stop being murder and become social justice? One does not become a billionaire without exploiting others in some way unfairly

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          when you get enough people to agree to actually pack up their squeamishness concerning homicide to go through with calling it “manslaughter in self defence.” At that point it becomes one of three things depending on who leads the charge: A civil war if the sycophants to the system have enough firepower to empower “loyalists” to fight for them, A Revolt if the people elevate one of their own, (most likely a leader in some grassroots org) or a Revolution if there are enough people already in power to rally the troops so-to-speak. It can morph to one of others others at any point though. Of the three, Revolutions tend to be the fastest if conducted surgically with some sort of Coup-d’etat scenario.

    • SethW@lemmy.world
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      This is a well understood phenomenon well explored in many books with both nuanced and obvious answers, please ask your local librarian to direct you. In the mean time I’ve heard the new movie I Love Boosters is really good…

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    No, they aren’t terrified. These people think they are demigods. I’ve seen it in plent of senior vice presidents even. It’s almost a job requirement at this point. Body guards make them feel even more important, and the company pays for it. Plus… that other tech bro has it, so I should too. That’s just the type of people we are dealing with.

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          It’s in my post history somewhere. Long story short, I was driving a limo for a company that transported his VC firm’s people. I was assigned to drive his luggage from the Private Jet to his home. He got off and went with my colleague who was transporting him. I was standing next to the other driver and tried to shake his hand and introduce myself and he walked right past my outstretched hand and got in the car without a word. The only luggage I was asked to transport was a single backpack. So he bought a whole separate car to transport a fucking backpack that he couldn’t be seen carrying. I really wonder if there was something illegal in there, but who knows? I never peeked. When I arrived at the home, I followed Thiel and the other driver into the home, and got scolded by the staff (likely illegal immigrants btw) because I didn’t use the service entrance. At the time, he wasn’t known as a mask off fascist and I had visions of grandeur about parlaying this into a job at his company since I was fresh out of college. Instead I got a cold shoulder and a scolding. Fun times