Cartier boss with $7.5bn: fear of the poor rising up 'keeps him awake at night'

The actual quotation is way more reasonable than the headline:

“How is society going to cope with structural unemployment and the envy, hatred and the social warfare?” he said. “We are destroying the middle classes at this stage and it will affect us. It’s unfair. So that’s what keeps me awake at night.”

Part of me feels that some of the anti-gun news coverage and concerns are driven by the concerns of the super wealthy.

I have no data to back this concern, but I feel with all their money and all the think tank they're financially backing there is a probably some prediction of the impact of AI into future employment and the growing inequality divide.

If you're super wealthy, the last thing you want is a large disenfranchised population without much prospect and sense of purpose in life with guns in their hands.

You just need to take a glimpse at human history to know what happens to the rich when the poor are properly motivated. I don't know if the advances of the last 50-100 years have completely eliminated the probability of such uprisings happening again in America, Europe, etc. It certainly has happened in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East this decade.

Good, this is how it should be. The powerful should be fearful of the masses.