Once you realise that they all think we have less than 10 years to the total collapse of civilisation, everything they do makes sense.
Once you realise that they all think we have less than 10 years to the total collapse of civilisation, everything they do makes sense.
To a degree, but they need a heavy industrial base to operate from and continue to produce resources. They dont have that.
Most of their resources come from contracts and conventions. When those shatter, they dont have any wealth past what they tangibly have in goods. Since opulent wealth like yaughts and fine wine require civilization to exist, they are unlikely to maintain that position in the collapse of society. Best case for them is a well stocked bunker and a wealthy, isolated life. They all have that, but only that.
The OPs statement isn’t likely. What’s more likely is that realize this is a change to enact a second gilded age, a full oligarchy where the rich rule explicitly. They are striking now that the groundwork has been laid and an weak president is in office that will welcome it.
isnt that precisely the point op is making?
i doubt societal collapse will put everyone on equal footing to grab at power, the billionaires still control our food production and all the basics we need for survival.
they may lose their yatches, but i doubt they arent planning on a different form of control.
why else would they grab and jerk the wheel of power so vigorously like this? i think they expect capitalism to collapse due to climate change or similar and are pivoting to something else…
The gilded age is about absolute control of the current society, not a post apocalypse hellscape. It is about establishing a US kleptocracy ala Russia. Its about reaping all the current richness of American resources into their pockets directly, about replacing people with whatever robot is possible until you have literal wage slaves.
It will cause a reckoning, but they think they can control some semblance of the current nation, not the aftermath of a destroyed “total collapse” American that OP is talking about.
they are trying to make themselves rulers before the “apocalypse”. this is what they seem to be jumping the gun on.
i say this because fascism is used by capitalists to assert control, but there wasnt strong pushback to justify it. they are smarter than they make it look like and seem to be planning ahead.
they already do this, not just in the US… thats why everyone else is struggling, its not like our work is valueless, its that value is already being siphoned to oligarchs pockets.