"They have to be secret, otherwise people would overthrow them for their nefarious deeds!"
[rich people commit nefarious deeds in open]
[no one overthrows them]
this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2023
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“No but you see they’re protected by the complacency and ignorance of the hordes of people they’ve hoodwinked!” “Are they now.”
"No, you see, they're going to private islands to rape trafficked children!"
"Oh my. I bet there would be riots in the streets if anything like that ever became public knowledge."
Because they control the information. Can’t start such a riot if you are using their email services, social media sites, messaging platforms etc. also can’t start a riot if you don’t believe in what your rioting about, which funnily enough, they control the news and social media so you can not hear so much about that bad stuff. It’s all in the information.
No, not really. You hear about the bad stuff all the time.
That’s why I hate it when conservatives trot out that fake Voltaire quote about the ones who you can’t criticize are who rules you.
Bullshit. Kings and emperors have been satirized and mocked for millennia. It’s not that they can’t be criticized, it’s that after their nakedness is on display, the accusations fade into the dirt; nothing sticks, nothing matters.
the real reason is that they blame it on poor people and immigrants, and people just absolutely eat it up like they're starving
I mean, some of them aren't really in the public eye, but they are definitely far from secret
Example from Texas:
For more than a decade, the two West Texas oil and gas moguls have used their fortunes to finance an ideological crusade to oust the torchbearers of the party establishment and install champions of their far-right, theocratic agenda.
...
Dunn and Co. aren’t stopping at the statewide primaries. They’ve historically had the most electoral success by putting up big money behind challengers—and tarring GOP incumbents as liberal hacks—in state House and Senate races.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/24/ken-paxton-impeachment-dunn-wilks/
Hours before the Texas House overwhelmingly voted to impeach Ken Paxton in May, a well-funded supporter of the attorney general issued a threat to his fellow Republicans.
A vote to impeach Paxton, Jonathan Stickland wrote on Twitter, “is a decision to have a primary.”
"Wait till you see my PAC budget,” he later added.
Stickland is the leader of Defend Texas Liberty, a political action committee that has donated millions of dollars to far-right candidates in the state. It is a key part of the constellation of political campaigns, institutions and dark-money groups that a trio of West Texas oil tycoons — Tim Dunn and brothers Farris and Dan Wilks— have pumped small fortunes into as part of a long-term crusade to push Texas to the extreme right.
Not just that, they actively support and celebrate these people.
No those rich people are great, it's the invisible ones controlled by the minorities you have to worry about
Yeah I know. The visible ones are those who made it by working hard and we should support them by demanding lower taxes.
But you got the part about minorities wrong. The invisible ones make them move to our countries by HAARP and chemtrails (some even turn to gay frogs on the way!) to steal the moldy apartments and the 10 bucks per hour crap jobs we have.
I like how the nutbags focus on Bill Gates supporting vaccine research and not, you know, being America's largest farmland owner as a techbro, or having had a higher net worth after creating the Gates Foundation than before, because the purpose of billionaire philanthropy is almost always tax evasion.
I like to think he just bought that farmland to give all these gay frogs a new home.
How else is he going to GMO a vaccine into corn¡¿
Yep, Federalist Society buying judges being a prime example that almost anyone that's politically involved can think of off the top of their heads. They don't need to hide it unless it's literally child prostitution or something similar, they can just do it out in the open because the average mook is too busy trying not to be homeless to care.
Just the way they designed society. It's also why they oppose social safety nets, worker-owned co-ops, anything socialist / communist, universal basic income, helping house and feed the homeless, free or low cost higher education, etc.
Don't want people to actually have power and self-determination.
Gee I wonder who would want to start a rumor like that?
They aren't Jewish enough
Yeah, "fun" and not horribly depressing.
The problem isn't that they think they are super wealthy and controlling everything. The problem is they think they are jewish and controlling everything.
Is it possible to be rich in secret?
and more fundamental, do rich people discose their wealth themselves? how can we confirm that what they say is accurate?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires
The part about their methodology might answer your questions to a degree.
thank you!