The whole point of the phrase is: When the poor have nothing left to eat, they will eat the rich.

It wasnt coined as a threat. It's a warning. The poor are already starving, and there is a limit.

And the thing is that 'rich' is not an intrinsic property, it's not genetic. When you eat the rich, everything they were hoarding - that which gave them the title 'rich' - becomes accessible. It doesn't disappear from the system like an MMO inventory.

Only after the starving poor eat the rich, will there be a path to a possible future without starvation.

The poor have no need of the rich, but the rich could not exist without the poor.

The problem with pissing on Thatchers grave is eventually you run out of piss.

Idk how ultra-wealthy people like this shitass don't understand that being taxed is the best outcome they can hope for. The alternative is people will eventually get desperate enough that they'll drag the rich cunts out of their houses and beat them to death in the streets.

Billionaires are mentally ill hoarders, they will fight over every last penny, just like hoarders do when you clean up their filthy house. Except, they are much more insane than someone collecting newspapers, they will screw over thousands of people to make $100 and sleep like babies.

They're starving right now

Billionaires are the parasites of humanity, they only take and give nothing back. These delusional narcissists think society would crumble without them, while it's them who are holding humanity back.

Don’t eat shit, mulch the rich.

Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

Not the biggest fan of eat the rich.

IMO purge the parasites is more accurate.

Eat the rich makes it sound like they are intrinsically more valuable whereas, like parasites, all they do is take value at the expense of the host.

It’s not even a fatal thing, their hoarding is a mental illness that must be addressed for the good of society.

This pathetic pile of lies genuinely believes that Atlas Shrugged is realistic.

He's terrified of getting taxed.

He should be terrified of being executed for crimes against the people.

His priorities are skewed.

I support what Mamdani is doing, and I think in the long run it will work.

Having said that, it's absurd to say that New York City has tested much of anything. Mamdani was elected just 7 months ago. Has there even been a tax season since he was elected? Moving can also easily take half a year. He balanced the budget on paper, but only by doing stuff like deferring payments to union pension funds. That's not sustainable. Maybe next year he'll be able to keep the budget balanced and make all the necessary pension payments.

You can say that Mamdani is in the process of doing this, and so far it seems to be working. But, at a bare minimum you need to wait a full year to see if it's working, and realistically you probably won't know for 5 years or more.

But, claiming it has been tested is like saying "You can absolutely survive on a berries-only diet. I'm proof. I started that diet this morning and I've never felt healthier!"

If Elon Musk disappeared tomorrow, chances are more people would have access to food.

They're starving now, dipshit.

They're starving because the rich are hoarding all of the food.

The problem is that the wealthy have created an existential crisis for the rest of us

Rich people do leave, but not as many as what is fearmongered to be.

In the case of New York, it has the Wall Street, it's not like the rich will carry the entire institution with them. Moreover, even Warren Buffet said that during the 1960s and 1970s when the wealth tax was higher, rich people didn't leave.

I'm not going to pretend that billionaires losing all their money will fix all our problems.

But I quite like the idea of them no longer having it.

When you aren't insanely rich you actually have to do things for yourself, so "we" will be just fine since we can handle doing things for ourselves

I don't know man we could feed the globe for ~100billion a year sooo just him alone would give us 10+ years to figure it out and honestly his greed being absent will probably heal a lot if things too. Dude doesn't pay taxes so what does he support besides Nazi's?

They act like things can only get done if they're in charge of everything...

"There are nine meals between mankind and revolution."

The filthy rich would push us to eight.

He has a POINT! Because NOBODY AT ALL is Starving NOW and it's ALL because Rich People EXIST and GIVE us Jobs! Fire us while PAYING taxes to Support ALL the Public Goods them AND us Use! NOT paying Taxes!

why does his comment have 40,000 likes.

The amount of simps for Elon dump is ridiculous.

Elon has a pretty simplistic middle-school outlook. Nothing too deep there.

Someone else can run these companies Does Elmo strike you as a genius? More like a drug addict idiot.

Other people do the work, including intellectual work.

I'm so glad Elmo payed attention in school and now shared with us the knowledge of how it were the rich that fed everyone the last 10.000 years /s.

The rich should starve. Or at least choke to death in the same way Mike the Headless Chicken died.

Even if that's true, the rich would still be eaten, and that's the actual important bit.