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13319628, If your knowledge were your wealth...
Posted by jimaveli, Thu Mar-14-19 09:05 AM
Then it would be well-earned.

MAYBE a few more folks are 'turning on rich folks', but this is been being a thing for a looooooong time. It's all up in our music and our movies 20, 30, 40 years ago.

Lately, it seems like it is presented in a super lazy way where folks occasionally want you to believe that everyone who has some money is somehow bad, evil, overrated, dumb, unworthy of having money, whatever. Reality show byproduct surely. Then Robert Kraft gets caught getting hunnid-dollar handjobs and folks fall out of trees to say 'SEEEEE!?' and the stance has steam. Meanwhile, dude with Amazon is still chillin. Hella unpopular rich folks are doing all that they do in shadows and remaining mostly undetected.

Aka this shit will pass because folks will get broken up over something else. IE: do woke folks still care about Human Trafficking? Or was that just a multiplier to try get folks more mad at Kraft?

>I think it started with the Mortgage Crisis and Bailout but
>even then Obama was didn't have the appetite to perp walk rich
>people and he caught lots of flack for his super mild and
>definitely warrant talk of Wall Street "fat cats".
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>But even still the GOP thought to run a super rich guy and
>their was lots of talk of the rich as Job Creators.
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>But you start to signs when you see the Rich as Villians in
>Hollywood movies and TV Shows. We've got from the stock
>villians being Arabs, and Russians in Action Movies to Tech
>Billionaires in kids movies like teh Incredibles 2.
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>But we really didn't turn the corner until Donald Trump was
>elected President. Even here there was talk that he must be a
>great businessman because he is so rich. I think Donald Trump
>proved to alot of Americans aren't necessarily smarter or
>harder working, alot just won the genetics lottery. In fact,
>Trump is going further to show that alot of the rich are rich
>by rigging the system or outright breaking the law.
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>And this SAT scandal, man this is manna from heaven for folks
>to show how much the game is rigged for the rich.
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>And this is while the economy is doing well supposedly. Just
>imagine if there is a major economic downturn.
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>People have been talking about a revolution for decades
>(including my pops) but I swear this feels like the closest
>we've ever been to one actually happening.
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>Or will this shit just pass and it will be the same ol same
>ol?
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>they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson
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>"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"