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- uspolitics@lemmy.world
- usa@midwest.social
- cross-posted to:
- uspolitics@lemmy.world
- usa@midwest.social
The White House posted a dehumanizing video Tuesday using the sound of detained immigrants being deported with the caption “ASMR: Illegal Alien Deportation Flight.”
They can convert that money into control/ownership over land and people.
If the economy is broken for everyone else, but you control the survival of people (through destroying or blocking labor laws, wage protections, public insurance, and eventually distribution of food and water, etc) and the space around those people (land, property), that control will outlast the economy and potentially the government. That’s because they can afford their own monopoly on violence in a given domain, if the state’s monopoly falls apart.
We’re not quite there yet, but fiefdoms could yet come back in style.
Except they don’t have money they have stocks. And if the market crashes what do they have.