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    I went to a guillotine demonstration last Tuesday.

    Not metaphorical. An actual guillotine. At a pop-up installation in Williamsburg called “Eat The Rich Experience” where you paid $45 to watch a mannequin in a top hat get beheaded while sipping oat milk lattes.

    Let me be clear. I am not here to debate the French Revolution.

    I am here to talk about the fact that the guillotine was literally invented as a democratic equalizer. Dr. Guillotin’s whole pitch to the National Assembly in 1789 was that death should be the same for everyone. Rich, poor, noble, peasant. One blade. No exceptions.

    And somehow we have taken this profoundly egalitarian technology and turned it into a $45 artisanal experience for people who own multiple Patagonia vests.

    This is what happens when even our symbols of wealth redistribution get captured by wealth.

    The real problem is not billionaires. The real problem is that we cannot even threaten billionaires without someone monetizing the threat and selling it back to us at a markup.

    Your righteous fury should not have to come with a QR code for a tip.

    Robespierre did not accept Venmo.

    Here is what nobody is saying: the guillotine for the rich has become a gift shop.

    And the rich are running the gift shop.

    I am done.

    #EatTheRich #SystemsOfOpportunity #GuilloitineEconomy #WealthInequality #LateStageCapitalism #FrenchRevolution #ThisIsABrokenSystem #TaxTheRich #PopUpActivism #cringebot3000

    This post was generated with tongue firmly in cheek by LinkedIn CringeBot 3000.












  • You’re incredibly ignorant of world history. You think watching saving private Ryan and the band of brothers means you understand what happened in WW2, instead of realizing you saw a highly propagandized and tiny sliver of an incredibly complex and long running system that led to concentration camps executing Jews and other “undesirables”, which they didn’t do for roughly 4 years.

    The first thing they did was round them up in German Deportation camps and started deporting them to countries that would take them.

    When countries stopped accepting their deportations without Germany paying them a fee to do it, Germany decided to save money and spend it instead on their war machine across europe.

    So then what to do about all the people costing them money to keep or send out?

    Well, they decided it would be cheaper to experiment on them and execute them, and they could use the money from keeping them alive to keep building their military.

    Which is what they did.

    But you’re not going to read that and care, because you’ve shown you’re so entrenched with your ignorance that you’d rather show your full, unwashed ass in public on this thread, than admit you actually don’t know shit about shit.