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Yes, there is a difference between the elite and the lower class, but it's only in resources and opportunities. If both sides switched positions the lower class people would go for exactly the same fun as the elite is having right know. Because that's the way we are born and raised, greedy and selfish. Purging a couple of assholes and replacing them with fresh soon-to-be assholes won't solve this. Our mindset needs to change. We need to agree on what is important, what is enough and what's obscene.
Then it seems to me that the real problem is the capacity for damage that being a billionaire grants you, not the people involved. Maybe we need to start looking at ways to limit the damage billionaires can do, instead of focusing so hard on changing the behavior of the masses.
I'm not suggesting a purge, I'm suggesting we change the behavior of the billionaire class. That can be achieved with taxes, policy, and financial incentives just as easily as with violence (probably easier tbh).
Dawg, we've been trying to change the mindset since (at least*) the 90s, and it's just not enough. You and I can reuse our sustainably sourced reusable hemp shopping bags all we want, reduce our consumption all we want, recycle all we want, it doesn't change the fact that Kroger is shipping in produce from half a planet away on a daily basis. We need to go further, and make the upper class take their share of responsibility for the damage they do to the environment.
Agreeing on what's enough is hard, but agreeing on what's obscene is much much easier, and I think it's safe to say that nearly every billionaire in the world exceeds what we can agree is obscene. That's a much easier problem to solve, one we have the tools to solve now. Let's tackle that first, while we work through the harder problem of figuring out what's enough.