Elite reveal anxiety over ‘class war’ and ‘revolution’

Re:Elite reveal anxiety over ‘class war’ and ‘revolution’ by kybernetikos on Thursday May 02, 2019 @08:54AM (#19807316)

I'm not advocating it as a solution for society, I'm just surprised that people would buy bunkers to help them survive the violence that they think inequality will cause, and not also think about taking steps to reduce the inequality by raising the living standards of those at the bottom. Both courses of action can be justified even at a self-interested level.

There are lots of situations where groups have voluntarily agreed to abide by a code of practice in order to avoid having one forced on them by democratic government (or a mob). The concept is common enough that the Canadian government describe it here [1] It absolutely can work, as long as the voluntary code goes far enough and is adhered to by enough of the relevant industry.

[1] https://ic.gc.ca/eic/site/oca-bc.nsf/eng/ca00963.html

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Re:Elite reveal anxiety over ‘class war’ and ‘revolution’ by RugnirViking on Thursday May 02, 2019 @10:29AM (#19808249)

Presumably its a sort of tragedy of the commons type thing. Any one rich person could act, but (reasonably) doesn't think they could solve everything by themselves. They could try to persuade their rich friends, but unless enough people do it they might feel that their efforts and their precious, precious hoard would have been wasted

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Re:Elite reveal anxiety over ‘class war’ and ‘revolution’ by NikkiA on Saturday May 04, 2019 @01:33AM (#19824652)

Because if they survive the class war - and god knows they are surely exceptional individuals - then they can start the whole process over again fleecing the individuals with the redistributed wealth.

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