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Comment by jamiek88 | Hacker News Reader

> Shit's on fire, yo.

Let them eat cake.

Can anyone else hear the guillotines being sharpened?

Seriously though this obscene inequality can only lead one place, and we were lucky that they were morons on January 6th and not organized properly.

Ironically the revolution will be stoked by those first up against the wall in the name of engagement.

It won’t be televised but it will be on Instagram.

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Every time I read something like this, I think of how little the person saying it knows about the conditions of the poor in 18th century France.

Good thing no one knows who to behead if you pay the $50k with ETH.

jesus calm down

Real change can only happen if the poor (people earning less than $1M per year) unite against the rich. Instead, the poor are hopelessly divided and fight pointless culture battles, like the main/master debate.

I don't think anyone making less than the median US income has even heard of the main/master debate :)

But sure, I agree with the larger point. Culture wars are great for keeping the weak divided. The $GME fiasco - albeit a bit silly - was the first glimmer of hope I saw in a long time towards that unification. Hopefully there's more to come.

> poor (less than 1m)

the top 10% globally is 30k... which is low income for Americans.

Americans bitching about the 1% is laughable.

Ironically, America basically shows how the 1% can maintain control of the global hegemony for decades without any effective resistance. The fact that this system of oppression is fractally recursive adds to the irony.

Precisely because Americans lead comfortable lives.

Why is it laughable that Americans want a better world for others? Most Americans have no control over what their country's leaders do.

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