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Don’t do anything to our rich overlords, you can leak millions of records of the middle and lower class and be fine. But how fucking dare you leak info on the rich
The only person to pay for the Panama Papers and the global oligarch's financial tax schemes they revealed was the lead journalist who broke it, and She paid with her life in a violent, sending a message to others who would cross the global oligarchs way.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/16/malta-car-bomb-kills-panama-papers-journalist
We have no power unless we rebel as entire economic classes, and there's too many self hating, true believer, "love me senpai oligarch" class traitors for that to ever happen.
That said, collapse is inevitable, entropy is absolute, and Rome always falls under the weight of its own corruption in the end. The snake of capitalism is choking on its own tail with no new room to grow/metastasize, which is the crux of their entire rigged con-game, and my only hope is that something better is made out of the ruins. Even that is a faint hope though. For every kind, empathetic person, there seems to be a sociopath opportunist that wants to manipulate and enslave them out of material selfishness.
The question I ask myself is this:
Is the world shit, because people are shit?
Or are people shit, because the world is shit, and the only way to survive it is to become shit?
I've certainly noticed myself giving up on caring about a lot of things as I grow older. It grinds you down.