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You might feel happy about this in your far left wonderland. But in the real world, the consequence of stuff like this spreading will be that CEOs will acquire better security, nobody will ever be able to even glance at them without getting tasered and you the consumer are going to pay for all of it.
Changing the social security system into a centralized one might work, but note that scandinavia (the place that has championed such systems) is having pretty big problems with their health care systems as well.
Perhaps IT work has tarnished my political mind as well, but I tend to think more and more that it's not about the ideology, but about the implementation that matters.
We're already paying for their private jets and super yachts. At least making them paying for a security team means some more jobs for regular people. And they will need to pay their Praetorians well if they don't want those guys to turn on them.
If capitalism were working correctly, this would be a great business opportunity for smaller companies which wouldn't have CEOs with expensive private jets and praetorians. But capitalism isn't working so well at the moment.
So your suggestion is to roll over and take it. Ok 👏
You can always become rich yourself, nothing is stopping you.
Yeaaaah that upward mobility isn't a feature of the system, it's a bug, and they're working on patching it constantly.
It's never been easier to be a billionaire. It's never been harder to be a millionaire.
It is actually very very easy to be a millionaire, especially a USD millionaire, these days. Once again, wealth is not money. And here in London we have plenty of low paid people like nurses who are millionaires on paper. Simply because they bought their house 30+ years ago and now median average house price in London is above £700k, which makes you a fucking dollar millionaire even if you're living wage to wage.
OK so how do I easily buy a house 30 years ago?
Capitalism is
No, it doesn't.
Yes it is & I'm tired of people making excuses for it
No, it doesn't. Don't be so ignorant, please.