eat ALL the rich

A liberal rich person is still a rich person, and deserves to be eaten all the same.

This is a statement that a friend of mine made a couple days ago and I have been thinking about it since.

There is an argument to be made that ideological purity tests are pretty defeating when you are trying to organize, but honestly? It ain't wrong even so. Liberals like to point to people like Warren Buffet or whoever as examples of "one of the good ones" when it comes to rich people supporting liberal causes, or even if they just speak truth about the injustices of the financial system, or really any stance we agree one, the idea seems to be that because they are rich their opinion should be more influential. This is wrong of course as money doesn't, or shouldn't, make you more right and we do ourselves harm by pushing that notion even if it is in support of social justice causes.

Basically eat all the rich.

The reason is by virtue of them even being rich, they are eating the rest of us. I am not saying that no one deserves to have nice things and to live comfortably, far from it, but what kind of nice things could anyone possibly need when they have a billion dollars? Why aren't they helping anyone else? And don't give me shit about charitable donations, or foundations, or similar, you and I both know that those don't actually exist to do good so much as they are tax shelters and masturbatory projects designed for someone to feel good about themselves, and in the case of foundations, operate with other people's money anyway.

The libertarian, and lets be honest from a financial perspective there is basically no difference between libertarians and republicans these days, ideal is of a Randian superman, able to fix any problem if only they were free of those small minded people who wanted their problems fixed for them, also if the government would simply just get out of their way. Well, the government has been rushing to get out of their way and has been for the last few decades now with only brief slowdowns, and the Randian superman is nowhere to be seen with his cure for cancer or new energy source or long winded lecture about responsibility and finance that changes the world. There are a shitload of rich people though, many of them I admit very smart ones, but none of them are actually helping that much.

There are 540 billionaires in the USA alone, by rough estimate, they have a net worth of a couple trillion dollars, who honestly thinks that they couldn't solve any problem if they wanted to? Many of them are richer than multiple countries put together and when they combine their wealth maybe a dozen countries in the world have more income. Some of them are liberal, most of them donate to charity, none of them have fixed anything.
Why do we have homeless people? Why do we have kids who want fucking blankets for Christmas because they are cold? Why do our students graduate with crippling debt? Why, if we have so much money, so many rich people, with so few restraints, why haven't they fixed it like they were supposed to?

Don't give me any shit about there being legal obstacles, there were legal obstacles to all kinds of things, things that directly prevented them from having so much money, and they still found ways around that, they are willing to go to the wall for an extra 5% off of their taxes, but what, local zoning ordinances or some shit are insurmountable obstacles?

The first priority of the rich, all of them, is not to fix problems, it isn't even to remain rich, the first priority is to get richer. They take almost no significant action without that consideration, but to be fair to them, even if they wanted to, most billionaires at least might have trouble getting poorer, at least in any meaningful fashion, the rich have set up a system that perpetuates their wealth, and while they can work to increase it even faster it will still increase without their input at all, and even despite massive charitable or political donations. It would take a lot of work, more than they are prepared to put in apparently, to actually make a dent in their wealth while at the same time effecting positive change.

That's the problem, I suspect the amount of work it would take is no more than the amount of work a single mother puts in to keep her kids fed and housed, bu which I mean a shitload, but still possible. But when you have the luxury and insulation from consequences the wealthy have that work seems a lot like punishment, and no one so far seems willing to punish themselves to help the country or the world in a way that actually makes an impact.