• orclev@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The wealthy require a functioning economy to continue to be wealthy. A functioning economy requires that there be enough money being spent. People can’t spend money if they don’t have jobs. The wealthy will ensure people will have jobs.

    You seem to be putting an awful lot of faith in wealthy people understanding that and also acting in their own long term self interest. History suggests that instead they’ll prioritize short term profit over long term stability. I suspect a much more likely outcome is that the rich barricade themselves along with large caches of supplies while huge chunks of the population are left to starve to death and die of disease. If you want to know what that’s going to look like just look at North Korea.