• jacksilver@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    The issue is that technology advances with the whole, the internet/smartphones/gaming etc. All benefit from large populations being able to buy/engage with them.

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      3 hours ago

      They don’t care. At all. They would hoard it all for themselves and use as many common people as medical guinea pigs for medical experiments to prolong their own wretched existence, too. Imagine the average ‘elite’ living 20 or 30 years longer than the ‘common’ person. They would see more superior and like gods even though they fully well know it is entirely them killing their underlings.

      Trump effectively orchestrated the fucked up response to the pandemic that resulted in 500,000 deaths. They knew that far more minorities would be harmed than whites. If you think they also ultimately care about their white underlings you are wrong.

      • Fluke@lemm.ee
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        2 hours ago

        The point was, that isn’t possible. If everyone is too poor to consume, their system stops, and they aren’t rich anymore.

        Long term, the snake is eating it’s own tail. What happens when it gets to it’s own head? It chokes to death (and scavengers pick over the corpse).

        Either they’re too stupid to know what happens at the end, or they’re stupid enough to think they can jump off the ride with the loot before it crashes.

        In neither scenario would I want to be living that close to the coming chaos.

        • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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          2 hours ago

          Either they’re too stupid to know what happens at the end, or they’re stupid enough to think they can jump off the ride with the loot before it crashes.

          Both. The answer is both. They really think they can survive environmental collapses. They would more than the average person… but not for very long.

          • Fluke@lemm.ee
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            12 minutes ago

            About as long as is possible with the doors welded shut from outside, I guess.