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The irony is that Fry did become rich ($4.3b) and all he did was get depressed in his cave full of nostalgia, until he discovered that sharing things with his friends was a much richer experience.
The honest answer? We've been taught that it's wrong since birth. If you go read some (not really) edgy takes on 'honor' codes from the middle ages, you'll find a theme that the codes really just made it hard for peasants to go after nobility types without breaking the codes. Think about stuff like fighting one-on-one rather than mob rushing, using poison, not stabbing someone in the back... All things that would allow a peasant, or 20 peasants with knives, to kill an armored man. Also all things that were consistently done between noble people, but conveniently ignored unless useful politically.
Meanwhile, most things that we would consider moral are completely left out of such codes. And even back then, many of those morals were around, they just weren't important to said codes of honor.
Nowadays, the same propaganda is used against us. You can't hold a person working for a company responsible for the company's policies/actions... unless they're below a certain pay-grade, then it's all their fault. You can't get angry about your health being impacted by pollution, because how dare you try to change someone else's life that uses that pollution! How dare you feel frustrated because someone can afford multiple giant boats and staff and multiple estates and their staff... while you struggle to afford rent and food and others languish on the street without any help at all.
Consume the affluent!
Turn them into Effluent!
Don’t eat shit.
Mulch the rich.
Chum the rich?
Not enough weapons, vehicles, or organizational discipline. Most of them don't know the basics of political and military revolutions, or guerilla warfare, and they'd have to be in a series of strong alliances with all the armed forces/police.
Other than that and the difficulties gaining a consensus to get all that, nothing is stopping them.
Why fight the military and not the 100 elderly dudes running it all?
Because the guys with guns stand between you and the elderly dudes?
I really doubt every rich person and politician is walking around with a personal security detail. They still rely on contact with 'common people' in many facets of life.
Private security industry has been booming in the wake of Luigi. Sure, not as powerful as all the stuff my pictures represent but plenty to slow things down. If Luigi-style attacks became a popular sport then we’d soon see martial law enacted.
You can't use major military gear on your civilians unless you're willing to wipe them out. Also, commanders and soldiers will refuse.
Keep in mind: Our AR-15s fire the same bullets theirs do.
Civilians are allowed hollowpoints.
Hah! Solid point (heh)!
“You can't use major military gear on your civilians unless you're willing to wipe them out.”
Oh, buddy, have I got some bad news about the American government…
Because McDonald's, NFL and Taylor Swift.
They have hired lots and lots of armed people
Brian Thompson testified otherwise.
And look how the system came crashing down on the chosen example suspect.
Doing the right thing isn't always easy.
Personally I think he’s a national hero, and I like to think that if I had nothing to lose, I would jump on this train immediately. I also hope that I could plan it better so I didn’t get caught.
Those armed people are part of the bigger class, tho.
The law.
All out war and violence .... that's what's stopping us.
If we ever attempted that, we would be easily manipulated into thinking that it was a war for other reasons and generally break down into a general war.
And at the end of the fighting, the rich and powerful would take over the narrative of why the war started.