This is plan B. Plan A is to create militarized security force that's a bit less poor and a bit more privileged than everyone else and is ready to kill people in order to protect their position.
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So many games have readied us for this.
What kind of life is that though. So now you're stuck in a fancy prison and can't trust anyone around you?
Impenetrable
Lol. Keep thinking that.
We played this game back in the 70s, during White Flight. I lived through it.
White professionals got very paranoid about living in THE CITY. Built giant gated communities just at the edge of town. Stuffed their neighborhoods with cops and private guards and security cameras and retractable road spikes and giant fuck-off electric gates and stone walls. Then nothing happened for a few years, and people inside realized this shit was boring af and obnoxiously expensive.
So they brought in a bunch of developers to add parks and malls and theaters and clubs. And then these places needed labor, so they built a bunch of low-rent housing just outside the spots just outside THE CITY. And these places filed up with the same working class folks who lived in THE CITY. But now the white professionals weren't living in the exurbs anymore, they were living in THE CITY again. So they all panicked and sold out and fled to the new edge of town.
And we've been repeating this pattern for 50 years, such that now it's a two fucking hour drive to get from Katy or Clear Lake or The Woodlands into downtown Houston where all the fucking professional jobs are. But, of course, this is Texas so nobody is allowed to build commuter rail. Instead we have several hundred miles of twelve lane highways gobbling up a bunch of historically prime real estate. And we spend $1.1B/year on cops who mostly do dick-all jerking themselves off in their squad cars earning 2.5x overtime pay on six figure salaries.
Everyone under 30 wants to GTFO of these horrible boring overpriced suburbs. While everyone over 60 is still too terrified to walk out their front doors when they live 30 miles outside of town, because the news said someone in a suburb on the opposite side of the city was center stage on the nightly news for getting their purse snatched.
But hey, don't worry, because Palantir Presents THE PANOPTICON is coming soon. And they'll definitely finally permanently for real this time solve the problem of crime forever. Just give them access to your retirement account so you can pay for it.
eventually those with money and power could have AI controlled, shoot on site, robot and drone security systems wherever they want. all legalised by the corrupt government.
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How will drones ever cross the moat?
How will vigilantes ever be able to catch these oligarchs at their office if they have moats around their house.
Honestly, wouldnt it be cheaper to just not be evil?
I got a trebuchet for sale.
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They can only store so much food in there.
I know the signs of a aproaching class war if i see them.
You mean a sudden escalation.
The current class war has been going on for decades.
Guess who can swim!
I suppose the ones who buy entire islands have a chance at raising their own food, and producing clean water, but the rest of them are vulnerable to an old fashion siege, to go along with their moat.
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And what is so funny is that despite all the eat the rich talk from lefties like us it is usually a right winger that will be the one pulling the trigger on those people.
They could just try being nice, but I guess that's too much work
Looks like mortars are back on the menu
This is nothing new to the Mega Rich and absolutely an ad read from WSJ to the Middle Rich.
Unless you got a Black Agnes hiding in there it ain't gonna do much.
What's that, a Scottish 90yo version of Black Widow? 🤔
She was the lady of Dunbar during the second war of Scottish independence. She rather famously held the castle from pro-English forces through most of the war.
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