Posted on 03/17/2022 8:37:42 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
The world has been ruled by the ultra-rich, for many centuries, for millennia, stretching back to the legendary Croesus. They are at the top of the heap, of layers of economic classes, each with their own peculiar characteristics. You know those already, even if you’ve never considered them individually as such; they were described by cultural Marxist Abraham Maslow as "the hierarchy of class values". (What you already know about this, is enumerated below.)
The greediest classes, are those at the very top of the heap, and, strangely, those at the very bottom.
There are two stories told below, that prove that the rapaciously greedy Oligarchs, share the class value of unrestrained avarice, with the lowest of the low, lower than low.
Names of five of the most characteristic of the ultra-rich, are in a book titled "Davos Man: How Billionaires Devoured the World" by Peter S. Goodman. (He has a left perspective; I’m on the right. Learn from you former enemies.)
1. SalesForce founder Marc Benioff,
2. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos,
3. JP Morgan-Chase CEO Jamie Dimon,
4. (6 trillion lbs. gorilla) BlackRock CEO Larry Fink,
5. Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman.
Because they are expert at capturing wealth, they think they have all the answers, as shown by Thomas Sowell in his book "Intellectuals and Society", they know how each of us should live in the minutest details of our lives, and they have the technical controls to make it stick at this point in history. Billions of people will find themselves with the walls closing in on them because these 5 geniuses, and several thousand other, rapacious Oligarch billionaires, are surrounded by Yes-Men who will do their bidding, no matter how outrageous.
Some of the classes lower down on the heap:
• The "lower-upper classes", the mere millionaires. Keeping up with the Joneses, "who has more money, who has less, what is my family’s reputation, what does everyone think of us?" Old Money vs. Nouveau Riche. The common-core of Hollywood plot lines since sound movies began. "How much bigger of a house can you live in, how much flashier of a car can you drive?" | "You don’t understand, it’s a higher calling."
• Upper middle class – excessive concern with propriety, hypocrisy not necessarily with core virtue.
• Lower working class. Once there was a working wage, by which a man could support his family while the wife stayed home to perform the most important "work" in the world, truly nurturing the next generations. No one tries to argue that child-care workers supply 1% of the nurturing of loving Mothers.
• Upper lower class. Proletarians in George Orwell’s "1984". Unworried by the news. Mindless concern with temporary carnal pleasures.
• The truly poor. They are normally the most generous, without much reserve, sharing what little they have. (Mother Theresa brough a bag of rice to a desperately poor Hindu woman with starving children, who quickly excused herself, divided the bag of rice in half, went to give it to a poor Muslim woman whose children were even hungrier.)
• The lowest of the low; lower than low. People who have no fixed relationships, who are only out for themselves.
I directly experienced the rapacious avarice of the very lowest, twice. This is the behavior that is shared with the five Davos Men.
Ten years ago, I was driving my car, on the street where I live. A man flashed a flashlight at me. I turned around. He wanted a ride. (He called his girlfriend on his cellphone, they’re free for the poorest; she was furious at him, he was wheedling and whining to her.) After I let him off, he couldn’t let me go, he had to look through my car, to try to find something he could take. He just had to get the better of me.
Now, two months past, I saw a woman collapsed in her filth on the sidewalk under a freeway overcrossing. She looked like she couldn’t walk. Acting quickly to get her a wheelchair, because these people will disappear on you if you try to get them something they need, like jackets or shoes, I drove to a private thrift store. I drove both ways on the freeway.
She was still there when I returned. I didn’t expect genuine gratitude, I was after it myself, for me to become truly grateful by giving. Generally, when you give some money to someone, even the most destitute, unloved poor old man walking down the railroad tracks, you look him in the eye, you shake his hand, after he thanks you, you thank him, especially for his blessing on you, you ask him his name.
The dirty wheelchair woman did tell me her name. But she couldn’t let me go, without getting something over on me. She looked into the passenger side of my car. There was a beautiful, large, dark-bright blue scarf, that had belonged to my late wife. It hurts to this day that I let her take it.
This greediness, the sense, not just of avarice, but of power-seeking, is what those lower than low, have in common with the values of the filthy rich who rule our world.
“The “lower-upper classes”, the mere millionaires. Keeping up with the Joneses, “who has more money, who has less, what is my family’s reputation, what does everyone think of us?” Old Money vs. Nouveau Riche. The common-core of Hollywood plot lines since sound movies began. “How much bigger of a house can you live in, how much flashier of a car can you drive?” | “You don’t understand, it’s a higher calling.”
Actually, the bulk of us are the Millionaire Next Door. Modest house, inexpensive care, millions of dollars in brokerage account. Greedy, perhaps, but not flashy.
Wealth production - good. Psychotic sociopathic insecurity driven power lust wealth hoarding - bad. Let’s call them THE HOARDER CLASS
Caste system. Statement some of them would make: “I’m not going to hell so I won’t see you there.”
To paraphrase the late and ever so great Walter E. Williams;
‘Greed has fed more people that every government that ever was on this earth.”
Now the Lust for Power, might just be the proper target.
I grew up in the 1960s.
Wealth was evil. Wealth corrupted.
That changed.
The hippies realized that their lifestyle wasn’t sustainable.
They became really greedy.
This caused them great inner turmoil.
They had believed so strongly in their hippy beliefs.
It made them angry.
Look at Hillary Clinton.
They still die. And then, we are equal. None of this “equity” crap when we meet our maker. I can die with a clear conscience when I have to answer for myself. Those masters of the universe think they are doing good by bringing about such misery and destruction. What will they say for their actions?
“The world has been ruled by the ultra-rich, for many centuries..”
That’s good, I much prefer that to the poor running it. And I want to live in the country that has the MOST rich people, because there is much more opportunity in such places.
As for all the wailing about how the world works, see tagline.
Yep. What fun is money when controlling people is much more addictive.
There is a great scene in Conan The Barbarian.
” Steel isn’t strong boy! Steel is weak but flesh is strong. See there, that beautiful girl. “Come my child, come”
(young beautiful virgin jumps to her death willingly)
THAT is power.” - Thulsa Doom
(something like that going off memory)
“Actually, the bulk of us are the Millionaire Next Door. Modest house, inexpensive care, millions of dollars in brokerage account. Greedy, perhaps, but not flashy.”
‘Millionaire Next Door’, one of the best economic books I ever read. Up there with ‘Think And Grow Rich’ (It’s not just about money) and “The Great Boom Ahead.”
People say, “How did you become financially secure?” I say, “Very slowly for 30 years, and then very quickly right at the end.”
The Davros cartoon says it all.
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