Wisdom from Omicron Persei 8

The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website to Futurama @lemmy.world – 1518 points –
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I'm waiting for you guys to start. Someone take the first bite yo.

You have an unfortunate username for this conversation.

Fine but you are bringing the side dish. I'm thinking third generation trust fund baby, or maybe "royalty"?

Where are all the effing serial killers when you actually need them? But nooooooo... We only go after poor white women and children!

...wait, you guys haven't literally been eating the rich? What the fuck?

"This concept of 'crapitalism' confuses and infuriates Lurr!"

"Surely they meant to fairly distribute the wealth"

"No, it says socialism for the rich with rugged individualism for everyone else. Behold."

can we just hunt them for sport? i don't think elon would taste any good

If you're going this route, use the same logic they do: nature preserves that sell rights to hunt big game, to find the preservation.

Maybe we need to rethink the slogan altogether. Unfortunately, "fertilize crops with the rich" doesn't have the same ring to it.

Maybe we need to rethink the slogan altogether. Unfortunately, “fertilize crops with the rich” doesn’t have the same ring to it.

Has anybody considered "Burn the Rich." I know, it's more CO2 in the atmosphere but less private jets so I'm pretty sure it will be a net gain!

You haven't had Billionaire Bourguignon?

Probably wouldn’t be a very sporting hunt either.

WTF are they good for?

Working class neighbor who earns 0.1% more: *sweats profusely*

That's not how it works.

In theory.

How would you handle a situation where in addition to "eat the rich", people start to say "eat the working class supporters of the rich" or "eat the families of the working class supporters of the rich" or "eat the 'eat the rich' dissenters"?

If you answer "that's never gonna happen," I hope you're right because I hate to say "I told you so."

So you actually took a strawman and shoved it down a slippery slope into a victim complex with a condescending "you'll see!" flourish at the end! Wow.

That would have been HILARIOUS with just a modicum of self awareness, but instead it's just sad 🤦

If you answer “that’s never gonna happen,” I hope you’re right because I hate to say “I told you so.”

  1. I fail to see how this is condescending. I just don't want witnessing a tragedy where innocents die because of guilt-by-association.
  2. What stuff should I be aware of that I missed? I can't read your mind.
  3. Calling my question a strawman implies you're certain this "slippery slope" will never happen.

Because the rich can afford to stop them.

This is, unfortunately, a sentiment that has worked out rather poorly throughout history

You know what they say, the working class are from Mars and the rich are from Venus.

Wouldn't that be... illegal or something? I'm not an expert tho

Because then nobody would have a job, and have to resort in eating each other sadly.

Last time they ate the rich afterwards everybody starved to death because nobody was left knowing how to do thing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1930%E2%80%931933

And the funny thing about it: When some poor had learned how to do things again those poor became the new rich.

Capitalism might be bare of morale but at least it cares for paying customers in spite of all alternatives.