There are stupid questions and there are stupid questions, but this one is next level stupid. Of course they’re in it together. If we’re being honest, we should probably accept that we’re in it with them too.
How else could just a few tens of thousands of people rule over the 8 billion us? Incredibly, just 0.001% of the world’s adult population have hoarded 6% of the whole planet’s wealth. 56,000 “mob bosses” each with more than $1.1 billion each thanks to 195 different protection rackets.
Of course, every protection racket also needs to reward all its Consiglieres, Capos and soldiers to keep the payers in line and coughing up their cash regularly. So it is that the wealthiest 1% at the top of the global food chain have hoarded 37% of all global wealth just for themselves.
And the wealthy don’t even try to pretend that they’re not all in it together. Even to the point that once a year, they get together for a jolly in Davos, Switzerland, to scheme and laugh at the rest of us.
Sure, even the wealthy have disagreements sometimes, but they largely keep things civil between themselves. What’s the point in keeping poor people if you’re not going to use them?
And so it is that it’s always the poor who suffer in their disputes. Whether that means taking a financial hit, such as paying higher import taxes to reduce other countries’ sales, or fighting against the poor of another country in wars that they stand to win nothing from. The more than one million Russians killed and wounded in Ukraine won’t gain anything from that war, even if Russia wins completely. And even if they’re only wounded and not killed outright.
In fact, when the world’s wealthy agreed the rules of law, they even made assassination illegal. Yes, there’s some other stuff that restricts what can be done to the poor too, but only because even the wealthy knew that it would look pretty self-centered if all they agreed was “anything goes, except killing the other side’s leaders.” Of course, that doesn’t always guarantee their safety – there’s no honor among thieves and all that.
So the wealthy have their side and they’re all very careful to stick together, as that’s their only hope of controlling the rest of us. Fortunately for them, the rest of us seem to prefer being divided and bickering among ourselves.
So the wealthy are in it together, but why aren’t the rest of us?
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