[fzeroracer]

I wonder what it would take to shake America of the whole 'temporarily embarrassed millionaire' problem.

At this point I assume even a hard economic crash pioneered and gleefully supported by the rich isn't enough of a cold water splash. I think that mentality is too locked in for a large subset of Americans. Musk has been increasingly getting more and more rancid and that doesn't seem to deter his supporters at all.

[happytoexplain]

Nothing short of mass violence, which should not and will not happen. I.e. we're absolutely fucked in the foreseeable future. Maybe in a century something massive enough will happen, god help those living at the time.

[derektank]

One doesn’t have to imagine themselves a future millionaire to be wary of granting the state the ability to confiscate private property. There’s a very real risk that they’ll come for the modern equivalent of the kulaks next.

[archagon]

Americans: terrified of an imagined threat, completely oblivious to the active threat right in front of them.

[derektank]

The several hundred thousand people that died during dekulakization were very real

[archagon]

Because dekulakization is definitely the path we’re on right now, not oligarchic domination. What trillionaire?

Thanks for making my point for me.

[fzeroracer]

This would be fair...except said wary individuals have had zero problem giving the state the ability to confiscate private property as long as it appeals directly to their emotions. We've seen cheers from those same types as the government sends jack-booted thugs to kick in doors and destroy property.

[Empact]

Leftists ask “why don’t Americans hate capitalism,” while Americans live in one of the most prosperous and advanced societies in the world.

[text0404]

Unfortunately, leftists rely on Americans ability to empathize with the plight of the vassal states in the world which have been pillaged and destroyed in service of the most prosperous and advanced societies. It is obvious at this point that Americans do not have empathy and will gladly accept the state of the world as long as they don't have to witness the injustice of it.

[hdaz0017]

"Americans live in one of the most prosperous and advanced societies in the world" for only a small % of the people that live in America!

1 - 2 million people are homeless!

What next mr south african, will go for 100 trillion?