• IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    Because eating the rich will accomplish nothing if you don’t also change the underlying system that created them in the first place. And good luck getting everyone in the non-rich class to agree on what that change should look like.

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      2 days ago

      The 2% inflation target that excludes all investments you mean, so that we must consume more every year otherwise interest rates collapse and we gush out money like a sprinkler, as the rich load up on debt to short cash with their ever inflating collateral while gold and houses rise 10% a year.

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      3 days ago

      What if the rich kept getting eaten until they figured out a system that the rest of us were satisfied with