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Comment by handoflixue

> This is literally the objective of the ultrawealthy

Assertion without proof; seems extremely likely to be baseless stereotyping since you insist this applies to the entire category rather than some specific named individual;

> it is the natural extrapolation of the early events of the industrial revolution projected onto a near-future world

Ford explicitly built his cars cheap so that the average person can afford them, and you're using this as evidence of supervillain-tier "wipe out humanity"?

> Feudalism is the natural state of mankind, and has been for thousands of years.

Feudalism, notably arising in the 5th century, has not even existed for thousands of years. Feudalism also notably did not involve the complete extermination of the peasant class. And of course, one could go so far as to notice that feudalism has largely been replaced by other systems of governance...

parent handoflixue 1 month ago

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