I’m not including the government in this because they actually do intentionally cause suffering and just so happen to be rich by stealing all your tax payer dollars.
Both parties do this. (I had to give that disclaimer, now to my opinion)
I saw a post that said “eat the rich”, I still think it’s kind of funny, but only because how stupid it is. Like how is fighting the rich (regular people with money) going to fix your problem (regular people without money)? It won’t.
I’m not sure if it’s just a trend online or because people are angrier due to more stress from bills, yada yada. (Feel free to school me on this part)
I do know that if you picked 1000 rich people and weighed their usefulness and positive impact on society it would outweigh 100,000 nonrich people.
For instance rich people make businesses that hire people, those people can work. Good (if that’s what you care about)
Rich people get inventions produced and do research and development. Now you’re using technology some rich person created. They may not have even been rich before they created it. Getting wealth may have been a side effect of their success. Do you still “eat the rich”?
It’s foolish and clearly bitterness. I know you have evil demons like Gates running around who happens to be rich AND villainous. However I’ve seen many evil and unwealthy people. Basically I think you all need to look at things with a clearer lense and stop hating and try to build wealth or at least freedom from needing wealth.
I think what people generally mean, atleast here, are the billionaires.
Unfortunately you and your family can not live securely or comfortably on this forsaken earth without having substantial amount of saved money, which already makes you richer than quite a large chunk of people. For instance most middle income level savings can be completely wiped off by a single serious illness. So it is more understandable for people wanting to be somewhat rich so that they can live carefree their only one life. I have to note though, it is still a short coming of the society that you need to be rich to be comfortable, but anyways.
Wanting to be a billionaire? That is probably a symptom of some sort of mental illness (not an expert, personal opinion). Call it addiction to success (like addiction to gambling), sociopathic levels of lack of empathy or narcissism but they just can’t stop trying to get more. I know a bunch of people who own their companies with ~hundred people working in it, producing useful stuff and what not and they are not even upwards of a millionaire. You don’t go up in the billionaire game without finding shady ways of hoarding power and influence. At the least you have to kill competition and create monopoly. And in worst cases we have people like Elon Musk who meddle in the political affairs of other countries and support right wing extremism so that he gains a bit more influence. Or we have people like Ellison who would rather have the whole world turn into obedient money milking cows so that what, a hundred people in the billionaire narcissists club can live like emperors?
So eat the billionaires? Don’t mind if we do.
You don’t need to be rich to live comfortably. And would it be a problem if the billionaires ate you?
If a serious illness can wipe your savings or you need to go under a 30 year loan to buy a flat, you are not living comfortably. If you work your ass off but still have to sacrifice from your comfort or wishes during a holiday season then you are not living comfortably. If you need to trade any one of these for the other or any of these for your kid’s education then you are not living comfortably. And many people don’t.
They already are eating everyone who is weaker than them.