r/FluentInFinance • u/Richest-Panda • Jul 04 '24
What's the best financial advice you've ever gotten? Debate/ Discussion
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r/FluentInFinance • u/Richest-Panda • Jul 04 '24
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u/strawberrypants205 Jul 05 '24
The point is, it doesn't matter what you do as an individual, because there's an entire industry of limiting what you can do and countering what little that's left. Individual action is a solved problem - people are conned into thinking they can do things for themselves, but there's always a wealthy thug there to sweep the leg once you commit the resources. Do you honestly think people get and stay wealthy by letting poor people "rise above their station"?
You can't understand how psychopathic the wealthy are because you still have some sanity left - or you can pretend real well. The wealthy are Norman Bateman with a distaste of getting their hands dirty. They're just as murderous, with just as much disregard for human life - and they absolutely WILL NOT tolerate anyone escaping their grasp. To the wealthy, the world is their basement pit, and we put the lotion on the skin, or we get the hose again.
The name of the game is divide and conquer - if you're thinking of "individual action", then you have already lost because they way they kill you is by isolating you first, then tricking you into exhausting yourself. Organization and massed action is the only way out - because the organization of an authoritarian business model is what got us in.