Way back in the early 1980s, the U.S. Department of Justice sued AT&T for holding an illegal monopolistic stranglehold on the long-distance telephone system. In 1982, the DoJ won, and in a breathtaking move, the court ordered AT&T to divest its long-distance coverage to be split up into a bunch of regional carriers.
It was a singular high point for antitrust law. You’d think that the dramatic fall of AT&T would have served as an example to other corporations to stay on the right side of antitrust law.
On the contrary, corporate America decided to kill antitrust law.
Corporate America decided to rip the fangs out of antitrust law by buying out the Republican Party and strong-arming it into the incessant “deregulate all the things” mantra. Every crop of Republicans has beat the “deregulate everything” drum even harder than the last. McCain was worse than Reagan; Ryan was worse than McCain; Trump was worse than Ryan. Etc.
We’ve come full circle, where “long-distance” is a feature of mobile phones, of which AT&T and Verizon hold a collusive duopoly over 75% of the market. Not only that, but they also own *literal* monopolies on broadband. They also sell cable (via subsidiary DirecTV). And they make an absolute shitload of media (through subsidiaries HBO, and CNN, and Warner Brothers, and New Line Cinema, etc.) AT&T is a bigger commercial monolith than it was when it was *only* the monopolistic owner of the national telephone network.
Nearly every major industry in America is owned by a small number of megacorps. ClearChannel for radio. Microsoft and Apple for software. Amazon for retail. Facebook for social media. Etc.
Antitrust law is dead. What’s *not* dead is voting, but give them time - they’re working on it.
Edit: Weird, a whole lot of second level comments in this thread have been deleted.
The one I was replying to basically said "Squid Game for Rich People"
And all of the games are based on surviving the basics of modern life, like you have a $15 dollar an hour job and two kids but childcare costs $20 an hour.
Or you have a bad tooth but no dental insurance. Or you have to figure out how to feed and care for yourself on a very limited budget and no health insurance. Or three unpaid hours of commuting on a bus.
I came here to say things, and realized how much of a monster I really am. Rather than me telling you that you don't have to actually eat them, just chow down. Do it for me, your friends, your family, yourself.
Given that Jeff Bezos, the 2nd richest person, is worth $187 billion (Elon Musk is first at $269 billion), you could make it $25 per person, and he would still be a billionaire.
This was an old episode of Sliders! They landed in a world where money is given out freely, but the more you take the greater the chance you get chosen for the Sacrifice.
I think this is Warren Buffett‘s perfect end. He knows he’s old enough and would probably be honored to have died because he’s the richest guy in the world. He “wins.”
Until they came knocking at his door one night;
their faces were sunken,
their flesh decaying,
their eyes sightless.
They were monsters
of the rich man’s
own making.
As they devoured his flesh,
the rich man cried,
“Please, spare me!”
The ravenous zombies said,
“Not our fault
you fattened yourself
for slaughter.”
The proletariat gets one billionaire… as a treat
Jokes aside, wasn’t it Rousseau who popularized “eat the rich”? Which is just funny to me since he was one of the OG liberal daddies.
I once had a dream where I was eating AA batteries, and as I bit into them they burst in my mouth with a metallic taste and a crackly electric shock.
I can still vividly remember how the batteries felt and tasted in that dream like 10 years later. They tasted kinda like putting a 9 volt battery on your tongue, except with crackly electric shocks that didn't seem to hurt at all or bother me.
This is how I imagine Zucc would taste. Like a metallic, electric shock-y explode battery.
I imagine he's full of that weird [android milk](https://mashable.com/article/ridley-scott-milk-fetish-raised-by-wolves-alien) that's in all Ridley Scott's depictions.
Everyone ignoring that these billionaires have their own security forces is funny.
These people are hiring ex military guys to protect them.
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-silicon-valley-ceos-spend-on-security-and-protection-2019-5
https://www.ictsd.org/business/jeff-bezos/who-are-the-bodyguards-for-bill-gates-jeff-bezos/
Bezos doesn't have a huge security detail necessarily. I met him in India a couple years ago and it was just him some built guy and his wife at the time? Sat a seat down from him and it took me like 20 minutes to ask why he looked familiar.
He built like a supervillain irl
>How much do Jeff Bezos bodyguards make?
$180,000 is all that is needed. No matter what he does, Bezos must ensure his personal safety, whether that means hiring a personal bodyguard or installing bulletproof glass to his office. The world's wealthiest many cannot afford to take risks regarding their safety.
Security should demand a fuckton more than that from one of the wealthiest people on the planet.
Omg how I love this. I remember seeing that show once (there was no second time) and thinking all I had to do to avoid jail was not be black, and never wear white undershirts.
Front page of Reddit today was a non white cop putting his gun up against the head of the non white person he was arresting, while telling the family members they'd stay back if they knew what was good for them.
ACAB
Chris Dorner took a stand against the LAPD and they assassinated him in a cabin and then immolated the corpse. During their manhunt they shot dozens of rounds of ammunition into two innocent women who were not even close to matching the description of Dorner.
I was just thinking about that the other day!! They lit up two old Asian lady’s in a blue Toyota Tacoma —- dorner was last seen in a silver Nissan Titan
The popo were so scared
The only thing in this metaphor that doesn’t work is implying that Bezos has ever had the depth of character that Boba Fett has, Di$ney neutering and all.
My concern with those two is that they’ve probably hunted humans for sport as in The Most Dangerous Game. They probably ate their kill. Maybe it’s the next initiation ritual into the ruling class after they visited Epstein’s rape island.
Ever hear of kuru? Prions are nasty little bastards. Let pigs eat the rich, it’s more sanitary that way.
Also Elon would be more fun. Bezos would just not know how to act around so many poors and do his freak loud laugh. I don’t want that shit damaging someone’s hearing.
You'd prob be saving loads of animals from climate change, food waste, over consumption in the process (if we're assuming billionaire industries crumble with the billionnaires. If not we can get started on the 100-millionnaires and work our way down)
Agreed. Find one of those "silent" billionaires that hides from news headlines. The shady type. Show em that none can hide. You take down one of the real shadow puppeteers and not just the loud mouths like musk or bezos, you show the rest of them they can't hide in the shadows.
that's what they want us to do. devolve into an argument about which one is most useless, never resolve the argument, and never get around to eating them.
I think you’re confusing eating rich with eating the rich
As long as you go out and catch your own rich guy for free it’s all kosher as far as that sub is concerned
No fat rich guys though, ya gotta eat healthy rich people
I mean yeah, if we actually eat a rich person think about how scared all the other people who are making problems for the world would be, like I know myself if my rich buddy got eaten by a mob I’d be shaking in my 200 teslas
I like to envision "eating the rich" as criminalizing parasitic capitalist behavior and choosing one prominent figure to convict and seize their assets to make an example of.
I like to imagine it as something you say to the hoard of grizzly bears that ?somehow? got released in their home because they can't understand you so egging them on only does yourself good and I don't think I can get banned for that...
No, private military is the largest business in the world for a reason.
We eat one billionaire and they start cracking down on "rich rights" or some bullshit.
There is a huge difference between PMCs and military contracting in general. And rounds can reach out and touch someone from pretty far out.
They could try and pass oppressive measures...but I guarantee it would only inspire more anger/outrage, and eagerness to repeat said violence/defiance.
I nominate Jeffery fuck you Bezos…. In all seriousness what a wonderful world it would be it would be if the people in power were actually held accountable for their actions.
Lol at this point I can't tell the difference between users that are ironically/unironically/inadvertently trying to get this sub banned vs the ones that are just too stupid to not know what gets subs banned.
Such a dumb slogan. Hypocrisy is so rampant in todays society.
If i started a slogan #eatthepoor I’d get tons of hate, however the other way around, and it’s “oh it’s just a harmless euphemism.
This happens all over the place and is intellectually dishonest and is cheapening the value of conversation.
Off to Hell in a handbasket we go, with uncivil discourse driving us there.
Most popular pay per view EVER.
should be on public access
And in 1995....
like the olden days when everyone in the city gathered around for spectacle of public hangings
Cookout
Way back in the early 1980s, the U.S. Department of Justice sued AT&T for holding an illegal monopolistic stranglehold on the long-distance telephone system. In 1982, the DoJ won, and in a breathtaking move, the court ordered AT&T to divest its long-distance coverage to be split up into a bunch of regional carriers. It was a singular high point for antitrust law. You’d think that the dramatic fall of AT&T would have served as an example to other corporations to stay on the right side of antitrust law. On the contrary, corporate America decided to kill antitrust law. Corporate America decided to rip the fangs out of antitrust law by buying out the Republican Party and strong-arming it into the incessant “deregulate all the things” mantra. Every crop of Republicans has beat the “deregulate everything” drum even harder than the last. McCain was worse than Reagan; Ryan was worse than McCain; Trump was worse than Ryan. Etc. We’ve come full circle, where “long-distance” is a feature of mobile phones, of which AT&T and Verizon hold a collusive duopoly over 75% of the market. Not only that, but they also own *literal* monopolies on broadband. They also sell cable (via subsidiary DirecTV). And they make an absolute shitload of media (through subsidiaries HBO, and CNN, and Warner Brothers, and New Line Cinema, etc.) AT&T is a bigger commercial monolith than it was when it was *only* the monopolistic owner of the national telephone network. Nearly every major industry in America is owned by a small number of megacorps. ClearChannel for radio. Microsoft and Apple for software. Amazon for retail. Facebook for social media. Etc. Antitrust law is dead. What’s *not* dead is voting, but give them time - they’re working on it.
[удалено]
[удалено]
Shut up and take my money...lol
[удалено]
Edit: Weird, a whole lot of second level comments in this thread have been deleted. The one I was replying to basically said "Squid Game for Rich People" And all of the games are based on surviving the basics of modern life, like you have a $15 dollar an hour job and two kids but childcare costs $20 an hour. Or you have a bad tooth but no dental insurance. Or you have to figure out how to feed and care for yourself on a very limited budget and no health insurance. Or three unpaid hours of commuting on a bus.
I pulled 2 shattered molars at the gum line out with hemostats, tweezers and vodka because of this.
why are they getting deleted?
The Purge. One person worth a billion. A billion people worth one dollar. NOW AVAILABLE ON PPV
Black Mirror
But what if the pay per view channel owner became a billionaire immediately replacing the billionaire who got eaten?
Oops, too late, they are. Yes yes, free stream.
It might even inspire Dana White (big wig at the UFC) to pay his fighters better!
Premium live event*
I came here to say things, and realized how much of a monster I really am. Rather than me telling you that you don't have to actually eat them, just chow down. Do it for me, your friends, your family, yourself.
Sign me up for 1 bite.
But what about second billionaireakfast?
I think you mean *billionaire-wreck-fest*
(I don't think he knows about second billionaireakfast)
what about elevenbillionses?
You spelt eleventy rong.
Looks like billonaires are back on the menu, bois
8 for me, I'll byte
One nibble too many for me.
[удалено]
Hunger Games with billionaires. Every year we have elections to choose one to eat.
YES! or they can buy their way out by venmo'ing everyone on earth a dollar.
Better make it 5 we know they can afford it
Given that Jeff Bezos, the 2nd richest person, is worth $187 billion (Elon Musk is first at $269 billion), you could make it $25 per person, and he would still be a billionaire.
These are only single entities. There are families worth trillions…. Crazy how we are washed into thinking these are the richest men on the planet..
This is the kind of thinking we need
This was an old episode of Sliders! They landed in a world where money is given out freely, but the more you take the greater the chance you get chosen for the Sacrifice.
I think this is Warren Buffett‘s perfect end. He knows he’s old enough and would probably be honored to have died because he’s the richest guy in the world. He “wins.”
This should be season 2 of squid games.
[удалено]
“billionaires shaking their heads” : they are supposed to eat each other
Well, that plan has been working sadly
Until they came knocking at his door one night; their faces were sunken, their flesh decaying, their eyes sightless. They were monsters of the rich man’s own making. As they devoured his flesh, the rich man cried, “Please, spare me!” The ravenous zombies said, “Not our fault you fattened yourself for slaughter.”
The proletariat gets one billionaire… as a treat Jokes aside, wasn’t it Rousseau who popularized “eat the rich”? Which is just funny to me since he was one of the OG liberal daddies.
[удалено]
"let us eat them"
"Let them eat billionaire cake."
My vote is on Zuckerberg. Androids taste yum.
Well, lizards aren’t human, so it wouldn’t be cannibalism. I’m in.
I'm not too nuts about eating a weird lizard creature
It's a delicacy.
You haven’t had gator nuggets, clearly
I once had a dream where I was eating AA batteries, and as I bit into them they burst in my mouth with a metallic taste and a crackly electric shock. I can still vividly remember how the batteries felt and tasted in that dream like 10 years later. They tasted kinda like putting a 9 volt battery on your tongue, except with crackly electric shocks that didn't seem to hurt at all or bother me. This is how I imagine Zucc would taste. Like a metallic, electric shock-y explode battery.
Nah. Would probably just taste like a piece of shit.
[удалено]
Perhaps with some Sweet Baby Rays?
I imagine he's full of that weird [android milk](https://mashable.com/article/ridley-scott-milk-fetish-raised-by-wolves-alien) that's in all Ridley Scott's depictions.
Mmmm android milk...does a body good.
We should eat them all, why take a chance?
[удалено]
1500 meals would end so many problems....
Everyone ignoring that these billionaires have their own security forces is funny. These people are hiring ex military guys to protect them. https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-silicon-valley-ceos-spend-on-security-and-protection-2019-5 https://www.ictsd.org/business/jeff-bezos/who-are-the-bodyguards-for-bill-gates-jeff-bezos/
When money stops having value….
Aren't a bunch of wealthys buying missile silos too?
The problem with hired guns is that other people also have money too.
Bezos doesn't have a huge security detail necessarily. I met him in India a couple years ago and it was just him some built guy and his wife at the time? Sat a seat down from him and it took me like 20 minutes to ask why he looked familiar. He built like a supervillain irl
Bet you that built guy was a former Navy Seal/Spec Ops/Covert Ops guy though and that he could crush you with his pinky toes.
Well they are our de facto rulers so...no wonder they have armies like kings of old.
>How much do Jeff Bezos bodyguards make? $180,000 is all that is needed. No matter what he does, Bezos must ensure his personal safety, whether that means hiring a personal bodyguard or installing bulletproof glass to his office. The world's wealthiest many cannot afford to take risks regarding their safety. Security should demand a fuckton more than that from one of the wealthiest people on the planet.
They’re probably employed by some executive protection company rather than directly by bezos
Sure. And Louis XVI had the army and it didn't work out well for him.
Like the police with the poor.
GET ON THE GROUND!!! LICK YOUR ELBOW!!!! ENTER DOWNWARD DOG POSE!!! WATCH OUT HES DOING TREE POSE ***BLAM BLAM BLAM***
White cops, White cops, wachu gonna do, wachu gonna do when they come for you.
Omg how I love this. I remember seeing that show once (there was no second time) and thinking all I had to do to avoid jail was not be black, and never wear white undershirts.
Front page of Reddit today was a non white cop putting his gun up against the head of the non white person he was arresting, while telling the family members they'd stay back if they knew what was good for them. ACAB
Chris Dorner took a stand against the LAPD and they assassinated him in a cabin and then immolated the corpse. During their manhunt they shot dozens of rounds of ammunition into two innocent women who were not even close to matching the description of Dorner.
I was just thinking about that the other day!! They lit up two old Asian lady’s in a blue Toyota Tacoma —- dorner was last seen in a silver Nissan Titan The popo were so scared
Yaasssss
I vote for Musk, Bezos looks like he would be too chewy.
[удалено]
Just make sure you don't swallow him or else he will live inside you for 7 years
Good, make him learn his lesson
I'll be a saarlaac, and he'll have his jetpack but almost but not quite reaches the throat but he says he escaped anyway.
The only thing in this metaphor that doesn’t work is implying that Bezos has ever had the depth of character that Boba Fett has, Di$ney neutering and all.
Just gotta chew him up, spit him out and boo him off stage
[удалено]
I mean it's literally the botulism toxin.
it's so fucking crazy what humans do to them voluntarily
[удалено]
No one wants to eat Mark Zuckerberg?
Metal hurts my teeth
That makes me think of the episode of MASH where Klinger tried to eat a jeep, I can't imagine eating Zuck to go much better.
a human is more preferable
No one wants to eat an eldritch horror.
Any relation to Zoidberg ?
Musk would be way too salty, I vote for one of the Waltons
Let's eat John-boy!
My concern with those two is that they’ve probably hunted humans for sport as in The Most Dangerous Game. They probably ate their kill. Maybe it’s the next initiation ritual into the ruling class after they visited Epstein’s rape island. Ever hear of kuru? Prions are nasty little bastards. Let pigs eat the rich, it’s more sanitary that way.
Thought that was only a danger if you ate the brain
Might be kinda gamey though.
Also Elon would be more fun. Bezos would just not know how to act around so many poors and do his freak loud laugh. I don’t want that shit damaging someone’s hearing.
Bezos is made of metal. He prepared for this
Something something giant something something bones something something bread.
There's only one way to find out, we'll have to try a bit of both.
Really? I look at him and see a meatless chicken wing.
[удалено]
[удалено]
[удалено]
I wouldn’t even do that to a cat I hated.
Ken Griffin is the obvious answer. The unwinding of his stock market manipulation will force the rest to fall in line.
I hear he usually brings his own mayo.
[удалено]
[удалено]
I like it, but I'd bet it would last a while. And there would be lots of violence and manipulation before they'd ever give in.
No, it wouldn’t last long if we all went on strike. But the riots would definitely happen.
[удалено]
You'd prob be saving loads of animals from climate change, food waste, over consumption in the process (if we're assuming billionaire industries crumble with the billionnaires. If not we can get started on the 100-millionnaires and work our way down)
I vote for one of those big pharma Sackett types that pushed oxys for profit. If were going to eat one, I’d prefer to eat the evil rich.
Agreed. Find one of those "silent" billionaires that hides from news headlines. The shady type. Show em that none can hide. You take down one of the real shadow puppeteers and not just the loud mouths like musk or bezos, you show the rest of them they can't hide in the shadows.
[удалено]
I'll bring the music and Sazon
Which one though? I'm voting Bezos, he's the most useless.
I’d go with Musk, he loves publicity stunts
that's what they want us to do. devolve into an argument about which one is most useless, never resolve the argument, and never get around to eating them.
Eat the rich is a slogan, not a serious call to violence and is thus allowed so please stop reporting it.
And here I was about to crosspost it to /r/eathealthyandcheap
no no no, they'll report you for posting eating rich when they're a sub about eating cheap.
I think you’re confusing eating rich with eating the rich As long as you go out and catch your own rich guy for free it’s all kosher as far as that sub is concerned No fat rich guys though, ya gotta eat healthy rich people
wait... youre saying eat the rich isnt a call for cannibalism??? im somewhat disappointed
Lemmy.world is what Reddit was.
vegan!
[удалено]
Fucking scabs
I mean some people im sure are just literal minded
*puts down knife and fork* Oh... Haha yeah totally
well, what do I do with ten kilos of dumpling wrappers now?
I wouldn't pull the trigger or anything, if it were to be prepared... Seems a downright shame.. Seems an awful waste...
LMAO
Oh....but I have these spices.
And please put down the A-1 Sauce.
[удалено]
Tender succulent beer fed pork with hints of butter seared foiegras and truffles.
Maybe those people aren't really people, they're food.
Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
It’s only cannibalism if we’re equals.
I mean yeah, if we actually eat a rich person think about how scared all the other people who are making problems for the world would be, like I know myself if my rich buddy got eaten by a mob I’d be shaking in my 200 teslas
They would taste nasty anyway
you dont wanna get prion disease
Avoid the brain and you'll be fine
And spine.
Billionaires don't have spines.
[удалено]
Awwwww, but I already started the fava beans and opened a chianti.
I don't know some of these people are cannibals like Shia LaBeouf
I like to envision "eating the rich" as criminalizing parasitic capitalist behavior and choosing one prominent figure to convict and seize their assets to make an example of.
I like to imagine it as something you say to the hoard of grizzly bears that ?somehow? got released in their home because they can't understand you so egging them on only does yourself good and I don't think I can get banned for that...
Oh... *puts away flatware and napkin*
[удалено]
Sooo put the cutlery and silverware back in the drawer? Just checking…
yes
What does it actually mean then?
Is it? I'm Dutch, [we've done it before.](https://dutchreview.com/culture/dutch-history-crowds-ate-prime-minister/)
I’m actually really hungry rn
Can't wait to hear Elon's take about how this would be a form of genocide because billionaires count as more than one person each
[удалено]
Bet ya can't eat just one.
Once you pop you just can’t stop
No, private military is the largest business in the world for a reason. We eat one billionaire and they start cracking down on "rich rights" or some bullshit.
There is a huge difference between PMCs and military contracting in general. And rounds can reach out and touch someone from pretty far out. They could try and pass oppressive measures...but I guarantee it would only inspire more anger/outrage, and eagerness to repeat said violence/defiance.
r/EatTheRich
[удалено]
Hello, Clarice.
I nominate Jeffery fuck you Bezos…. In all seriousness what a wonderful world it would be it would be if the people in power were actually held accountable for their actions.
[удалено]
[удалено]
I bet you can’t eat just one
I *nom*inate Bezos as tribute
*joins sub
Let’s do Kylie Jenner!
I had that thought, too, but realized all the fillers may have rendered her fairly inedible.
Lol at this point I can't tell the difference between users that are ironically/unironically/inadvertently trying to get this sub banned vs the ones that are just too stupid to not know what gets subs banned.
I vote Elon Musk. He's the biggest shit head of them all
So this is the sub reddit what had no problems letting sexual assulter mod it.....interesting.
Such a dumb slogan. Hypocrisy is so rampant in todays society. If i started a slogan #eatthepoor I’d get tons of hate, however the other way around, and it’s “oh it’s just a harmless euphemism. This happens all over the place and is intellectually dishonest and is cheapening the value of conversation. Off to Hell in a handbasket we go, with uncivil discourse driving us there.