Once you realise that they all think we have less than 10 years to the total collapse of civilisation, everything they do makes sense.

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    No, it really isn’t.

    You have next to zero impact on anything at an individual level. These guys can literally buy a small country if they wanted to.

    A million dollars would change your life.
    Jeff Bezos makes ~$8M an hour.

    See below:

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      True, but the second you can’t buy enough food at the grocery store it all goes poof

      If we stop, even for a couple weeks, the system collapses. If a third of people stop showing up for work, if a third of people steal their food rather than pay for it, if a third of people stop paying rent… It all just melts away like a snow flurry

      Money means the value assigned to it - if it can’t feed you, it means nothing. If it stops moving, so does ‘the economy’. It’s so much more fragile than it seems

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      Money is just paper, or worse, numbers on a computer. It requires a working civilisation and government system to have any value so it won’t matter if/when civilisation collapses. Being rich will allow you to prepare and stockpile as much resources as possible while civilisation is still in place, but once all hell actually breaks loose, money will become worthless.

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          🌍🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀 always has been. the dollar was built atop of the control of oil. energy.

          minerals and other impotant resources are in the hands of the burgeoise for quite a long time now, too.

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        Franz Ferdinand was practically asking for it.

        He rolled through Sarajevo in an open-top convertible - in a city full of anti-Austrian rage - and the exact parade route was published in the paper, like a personal invitation to The Black Hand.

        One assassin lobbed a grenade at his car, but it bounced off and blew up the vehicle behind him.

        Did they cancel the visit? Nope. Later that day, they decided to visit the wounded - by driving the same route. After a wrong turn, the car stalled right in front of Gavrilo Princip, who didn’t miss his second chance. He just stepped forward and pulled the trigger.

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      Even worse, they could easily hire huge armies to fight for them and carve out thier own countries.

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        This is an economic war and it has been going on for some time, they have no need to fund armies. They’ve already subverted our way of life.

        The oligarchs have united to fight against us, we need the working class to unite and fight back before it’s too late

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        They won’t even need to do that now that they’ve got drones and robot dogs with machine guns on their backs. A war between robots and people wouldn’t be like it is in the movies, the robots won’t miss.

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      All that money takes up too much space, that’s why I put all my money in crypto - don’t have to store it if you lose it all