Venture capitalist Bradley Tusk said that inequality in the U.S. could lead to an uprising similar to the French Revolution.
  • RedFrank24@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    8 hours ago

    Venture capitalist Bradley Tusk told LBC: “If Elon Musk says he needs a trillion dollars because he’s going to solve global hunger or something like that, great, have at it. But I don’t know what you could possibly buy with a trillion dollars that you couldn’t buy with a hundred billion, or probably even $10 billion.”

    Well at least he’s aware of how much money a trillion dollars is and how easy it would be to solve world hunger.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      VC usually has 100s of millions or billions. hes probably the one that uses funds from billionaires into his company?

      • Tangent5280@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        If your parents left you a home, you’re probably a millionaire too. Many blue collar working folk are millionaires, except if they tried to spend those millions they’d become homeless.

      • meep_launcher@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        13·
        7 hours ago

        I mean the millionaire class is a grey area between those who are so rich they are completely out of touch with working class realities, and those who were working class who got a break and played a good hand right.

        Personally I don’t really have a problem with millionaires, that’s an amount you can make playing by the rules and not bending them to your own will.

        • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
          1·
          4 hours ago

          depends on how they got the money, did the guy come from wealth? if so he might be so detached from everyone else, even as a millionaire. or did he build up his wealth from the ground up, without the help of NEPTOTISM.

  • MourningDove@lemmy.zipEnglish
    111·
    8 hours ago

    Fingers crossed that if it does, people will see it as what happens when you let the clowns control the circus and the Terrorist Party never sees themselves in a position of authority ever again.

  • Triasha@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    9 hours ago

    Well off working man warns the capitalist class the consequences of stiffing the working class.

  • kreskin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    12 hours ago

    Author of the article could have picked a punchier subject line. Not that I disagree with the premise, but “millionaire” is pretty common these days. Like 20% of the population. Journalism is in the toilet these days.

  • thefrozenorth@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    48·
    18 hours ago

    The US govt shutdown is a distraction. The real story is the generals being fired by Hegseth. When they are replaced by Trump loyalists, the real civil war will begin. The goal of Project 2025 is to install a white supremacist evangelical ruling class in power. They have already published everything they want to do, all you have to do is look.

    • Credibly_Human@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      13 hours ago

      Nothing is just a distraction. They’re all just similarly evil parts of the plan, that they have fully documented, and that people just kinda keep ignoring.

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      122·
      17 hours ago

      For there to be any kind of real “civil war” there would need to be a very clear distinction between sides and goals alongside states declaring their intent for sovereignty, as well and would need some form of oppositional army with organization.

      The USA is far, far from a real civil war. We’re talking a generation or more and that’s in the worst case timeline.

      The terms people need to recognize and understand are “militarized police state” and “civil unrest.”

      These conditions may lead to a civil war at some point, but so far the bickering between states that don’t want Trump to do this and that are nothing remotely close to the conditions that start a civil war.

      I get it, we want something to happen. We want retribution and justice and some kind of satisfying pushback. But I don’t think it’s helpful for any of us to “Tim Pool” the situation and try to pound the war-drums so we normalize violence. The current situation can and most likely will start facing mitigation during the mid-terms if there’s no authoritarian takeover. Right now, even if that happens, you would see rioting and possibly even a coup long, LONG before you would see a civil war.

    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      66·
      17 hours ago

      The goal of Project 2025 is to install a white supremacist evangelical ruling class in power.

      Pretty sure that’s Project 1776.

      • unphazed@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        16 hours ago

        Except most of the Founding Fathers were Deists. The churches of the time were mostly semi-Puritanical, and to an Evangelical, would be an absolute horror. A church that held so strictly to doctrine that they punished everyone for anything sinful, actually cared for the poor and sick (if only to bring them into the fold), and preached damnation and punishment in Hell. Stark contrast to the newer Prosperity Gospel (aka Grift), philandering, do what I want to whom I want and ask forgiveness at the end Evangelicals. The Founding Fathers were against religious control because they knew they wouldn’t be able to do much, or lose their power, as it would be seen as sinful. Now the Church has become so damn corrupt it now gives politicians a pass so long as it brings the Church more money. At this point I’m waiting on a holy war or two and a schism of power to eliminate the Church’s power again…