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Teeveryesterday at 8:58 PM2 repliesview on HN

I honestly think that we'll start to see a movement where people diagnosed with terminal illnesses like a brain tumour that leave them functional for a few weeks or months before dying within a year will start kamikazing against the ultra wealthy.

People with nothing to lose will feel empowered by taking everything from the people who they feel are responsible for taking everything from them.

There's a chance this kind of thing becomes a social contagion that spreads, much like suicide or school shootings.

I'm not sure what the solution is to it once it starts. I guess people like Thiel won't be able to do antichrist talks at the Vatican anymore.


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ryandrakeyesterday at 11:57 PM

This is why totalitarian surveillance and increased police power is also part of the billionaires' agenda: When 99.99% of us are economically irrelevant, they'll need to more and more insulate themselves from the "Nothing To Lose" people.

causalyesterday at 9:36 PM

That's a pretty extreme take on the current situation IMO, I don't think we're anywhere near things being that bad. But I certainly want to avoid that.

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