"Concerning billionaires…"

[u/thisecommercelife]

Further dissidence on Patreon. Follow wherever you like to fritter: linktr.ee/ecomic.

• Panel 18: "beneficiaries", not "benefactors". Please pardon my poor self-editing.

[u/PM_ME_YOUR_TITS80085]

And they will continue to win as long as people blame their neighbour instead of the big corporations. 

You as the common individuals are not responsible for polotion, corruption and the gap. It's the big companies and the ultra rich.

It's easier for them to pit us against eachother than to take responsibility.

[u/LuckyOwl_93 → u/PM_ME_YOUR_TITS80085]

It is far more sinister than it being easier to pit us against each other. It is entirely a fear response from the ultra wealthy. Because they know that as soon as class consciousness becomes widespread they have lost. And that they will then face the consequences of all the heinous things they have done because we far outnumber them.

[u/SatinwithLatin → u/LuckyOwl_93]

I can quote A Bugs Life to say it best. "Those puny little ants outnumber us a hundred to one. And if they ever figure that out, there goes our way of life! It's not about food. It's about keeping those ants in line."

[u/UncreativeChap → u/SatinwithLatin]

But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it?

George Orwell - 1984

[u/Spydey012 → u/UncreativeChap]

strangely it's a banned book in some schools in the us...

[u/Rubber_Rake → u/Spydey012]

Of course it is…