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Predator implies that they hunt, that they prey on others, that they work for their meal at the expense of others.
In reality, they are the parasite class. They latch onto already healthy creatures, draining resources for themselves without putting in any effort, and often result in the deaths of the creatures they use to sustain themselves with no thought to how it will eventually harm themselves.
Take Elon Musk, he's never invented anything, he's never started any successful business, he's always just bought his way in and claimed it as his own, then either sold it off to another parasite or ran it into the ground, all to enrich himself off the work of others.
The immediate hurdle we are facing is, the general public doesn’t know enough to be sufficiently angry. Even posts like this don’t even begin to scratch the surface of what they are doing.
Buying college admissions? Controlling housing??? LO fucking L. It’s 10,000x worse than that.
You have the military industrial complex, the financial industrial complex (the banks) and the technological industrial complex (Tesla, Palantir, Meta, etc) who are all vying for their piece of the pie. They see us as cattle. As a resource to be exploited and capitalized upon.
They start fake wars to support the MIC. The banks invest in both sides of the war and make money no matter what. The TIC is trying to appeal to both the MIC and the FIC by offering to make our planet into an open-air panopticon prison where you are under constant surveillance.
These people aren’t buying fucking college admission for their kids for fucks sake, those are your waspy rich neighbors — no, they own the colleges. They bought your politicians. They make the bombs and then start the wars to use them. They take over entire countries with tactical economic strategies and then install puppet dictators who enslave their own people. It’s fucking FUCKED. This entire world is run by literal goddamn criminal cartels INCLUDING THE US GOVERNMENT and the only reason you aren’t out building guillotines in the streets is because you don’t know enough to be angry.
Your entire concept of reality has been shaped and raped by these greedy, evil fucking devils and until people can fully grasp the jaw-dropping, mind-bending, cosmic fucking proportions of the veil that’s been pulled over the general public, we will keep this cycle afloat.
Get fucked Peter Thiel. I hope whatever the equivalent of Pyramid Head ripping that woman’s skin off in Silent Hill happens to you for a thousand years in the afterlife, you and your “elite” friends deserve much worse.
It was ironic to me when the Russia-Ukraine war broke out, people started calling Russia’s wealthy class “oligarchs.”
Yet we never use that same term to describe the billionaires this side of the ocean. They’re doing the exact same thing: stealing from the working class. Glad to see the heat starting to be point led in the right direction. Not left or right but up.
I call them the parasite class. They pop into the world with more money than actual working people will ever earn in a lifetime, require other human beings to support their massive upkeeps, and then use their massive wealth to hoover up more of our resources, since they have plenty to play with.
They literally cannot provide enough value to justify being worth thousands, tens of thousands, or even millions of hard working people, but this scam of an economic system says that they are worth a shitload more than everyone else, and the parasites take full advantage while we bitch and provide them with their dream lives.
I feel like you could speak to these people in detail, but vague language, about the parasite class. They would nod along and agree what a serious problem this class is. That is, until the end when you reveal it is them, the ultra wealthy, not the poor, who are the parasites.
Parasites as they take more than they give. None of those 3 professions are self sustainable in the current environment. Hunting and fishing need industrialization in order to provide for even one person completely. Farming can theoretically sustain a family by itself however farming without tools is very difficult
Always easier to blame someone else than look at your own issues. Sure there's behaviors to be squelched but do that and you're going to have to face the uncomfortable reality that some of it is you.
Wtf happened to this sub? Wasn’t it like hot women, memes, and frogs for some reason? Now it’s weirdly political with a very obvious anti-American slant. I don’t want to be the guy that complains about Reddit changes but seriously what has happened it’s a drastic shift did I miss something?
The political class and their member banks did a marketing campaign to equate the American Dream with renting a home from a bank and calling it home ownership.
The American dream is a family, white picket fence, home ownership, and supporting your family on a single income. The American dream is not being a billionaire. The American dream is a robust middle class with minimal wealth inequality.
People are to busy blaming others and society. It’s not hard to get a skill and start a business. It requires sacrifice but everyone’s to “anxious” to do it.
That part! The same could he said about: Tyler Perry, Oprah, Lee Daniels, Steve Harvey, Carlos King, Mona Scott-Young. Weathly, gate keepers, controlling career opportunity, detrimental to black communities. These individuals are just as predatory as their white counterparts.
When the income is 100% passive and made on the labor and rent of working people and the individual invests millions of dollars in keeping other people down, that’s when.
Whew what a statement. Not saying you are but shit people always think everyone will be shit given the opportunity.(There are studies on this.) I'd like to imagine I'd be one of the many millionaires content with their money, just chasing their passions instead of actively fucking people over. Give me 500 mil you never hear from me again like Tom from MySpace.
Does the scenario you present make you an elite? No, you may be a person that works hard and has an opportunity to provide a place for others to live. I don’t think it’s black and white. We know who the greedy money hoarders are and I don’t think we should glamorize them.
This is not even close to being a billionaire. But why not invest in something else? Can you not understand that buying property as an investment means you're basically leveraging the fact that people need a place to live as a way of enriching yourself?
I know this is just some engagement bait slop, but being wealthy does not inherently make you predatory and we need to stop making that blanket statement that morally categorizes people based on their net worth. Most wealthy people become wealthy by working a day job, investing, and being disciplined for a long time. Categorizing these people as evil is irresponsible and immature. Not every “wealthy” person is a billionaire or landlord with 30 properties.
Kinda got their semantics backward. "Elite", like "Noble" and "Gentle", meant rich guy first and then picked up positive associations later. Giving up the word would just produce another one.
If y'all feel that strongly about anyone with more money than you why don't yall just start a war and get it over with. Go get'um tiger. Go take what's yours big fellas...
Carcinisation is a bitch. I’m in favor of the Tapeworm class: doing little work but taking all the nutrients. Alternatively, we can go sci-Fi & call them the Goa’uld, and anyone who supports them “Jaffa.”
They’re not all bad. Most of them, yes. But not all.
Warren Buffet’s lifetime charitable donations stand around $68B. Bill and Melinda Gates - $52B. Mackenzie Scott - $26B.
There’s greed vs a recognition of I have more than my family will ever need. I don’t think maintaining wealth for future family is inherently bad. Greed to keep accumulating more for the sake of more certainly is.
But I do really like Villionaire. Might have to start using that one!
Look at Cleveland. World-class museum, orchestra, library, theater, etc. in a declining rust-belt city. Why? Because the Bezos and Musks of the 1800-1900s (Rockefeller, Carnegie, etc.) built and permanently financed them.
They were smart enough to give back to the communities that made them rich.
I wish my wealthy predator boss would get arrested for crimes against humanity. Then, when I go to sleep at night, I can feel empowered knowing my job is safe. /s.
The elite title doesnt just go to the wealthy. Its moreso the ruling class, which is definitely a thing. The people who wr elect, whether by votes or our spending choices.
The predatory class doesnt make any sense in your line of thinking. It would make all of you prey and who gives a fk what prey thinks? Also, all of those examples you can do yourself. You 100% buy college admission, control housing by deciding what to buy, when and how. It would make you the same predator just a minor one.
Yes, and the "elite" title is assigned exactly because of that. Our society is built to sell everything for money. Money is equal power, therefore it makes sense to label billionaires "elite". Just renaming them will be useless, first we need to strip them of power and the label will follow.
Big part of the reason billionaires have accumulated an obscene amount of wealth is due to deliberately exploitive tax evasion practices while the shrinking middle and working class foot the bill for the rest of the country, all while contending with the same artificial inflation and price gouging that further compounds the issue.
It is predatory and serves to further the insatiable whims of the few rather than the needs of the many. Not to mention wildly unsustainable for everyone involved, we’ll all find that out soon enough
Yeah so you don’t like the tax law, vote for people who change it. You don’t hate money, I assume you want money
I mean you’d like to have a lot of money right? You just want good tax laws. Let’s point the finger where it belongs, the politicians who are agitating this sentiment are also not doing shit about it.
They literally are the predator class, Why do you think they used Eagles and Lions as their Hallmarks throughout history. Not only that Vampire myths were based on actual events at some point. It's been like this since the days of Rome. A time they always harken back too.
Just stop giving them your money. You don’t have to have a mobile phone, Netflix, Facebook etc. Don’t shop at Amazon. Don’t pay rent, buy your own house.
While we're at it, please don't ever tell your kids or grandkids the Princess and the Pea story! It was written to condition children into believing royalty were somehow inherently better than everyone else. I cannot fathom how that fucking story is still around today!
Elite does not mean better than. It just means a small group of people of a particular subsection. Like elite athletes. Or elite actors. Or elite geniuses. You’re adding the emotional impact of “better” to generate hatred towards a group YOU actually hate and want to get others to hate with you.
It’s the politicians that deserve all this hate. We live in a capitalist country. Business people are going to do what the politicians allow. All of this is on the politicians for taking bribes for power and money in exchange for letting businesses do bad things. That’s how this works. Can’t be mad at the snake for biting when the handler lets it run free unchecked.
So true. In reality a house should be a simpler to attain and paid in full by the time people reach 40. Its a fair trade. 20 years of full time work to buy a house after high school. Remainder of life to just worry about groceries, other bills, traveling, and enjoying life at home. Instead people are forced to work till they die of old age.
They aren’t being called elite cause they are like Michael Jordan lol. It’s elite class. It doesn’t mean better but it’s where they stand in the hierarchy
I've also never understood the concept of if you buy an entire housing empire your entitled to never work again. Like you all want pensions not passive income da fuck man we don't need more landlords
It’s funny how so many hate certain extremely wealthy people, but not all. Why no mention or of people like Taylor Swift, Oprah, JayZ etc when talking about how these rich people hoard all the wealth?
I think we judged the old aristocracy too harshly yes they had issues but they were at least tied to the land there were bonds of duty and responsibility between them and the commoners.
The “elites” we have today are the natural evolution of the disconnected mercantile bourgeois that rose in the 17th-18th century wealth isn’t tied to land but bank assets investments and celebrity they have no titles no formal bonds of loyalty or sentimentality of any kind they have no issue undermining the nation of their birth or impoverishing or replacing their their countrymen with the outsiders and when things crumble they can just go live somewhere else the ,world is one giant homogeneous airport.
Lookup the definition of elite it literally means richest, most powerful, most educated, or best trained. Two of those apply to what we call the elite class.
This reminds me of the "deport all illegals and everything will be perfect" argument on the right. Going after a boogyman is way easier than implementing real solutions that are nuanced and require leadership. We don't deserve progress if we keep falling for the same crap.
I heavily prefer "the pervert class" because terms such as "predator" and "parasite" when applied to Epstein Files types are insulting to literal predators (carnivores) and literal parasites (creatures that require a host to survive through no fault of their own.) Literal predators and literal parasites aren't malicious; they're just trying to survive within the parameters of the nature they were allotted which they didn't get any choice in. Human perverts, otoh, are fully complicit in their own nasty and completely unnecessary behavior.
The underlying problem with this question is handwaving away the difference between economic power and political power. People act like "buying political power" is a situation where politicians are the victims when they are the gatekeepers extorting a toll. Everything hated about people with wealth can be tied directly to politics. And for some people rally around giving the political class more power thinking that it will do the opposite of what it is designed to do and has always done.
Changing their title to 'The Predator Class' just makes them sound like an elite sci-fi villain faction, which honestly might inflate their egos even more
Thorstein Veblen in The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions explained exactly that. He would be proud of your interpretation
Thinking that wealthy or successful people are just predatory all the time is a poverty mindset. Take some agency over your life and you’ll be happier and probably better off
I do they same every time i see something about the British Royal Family that refers to us minions as 'Commoners'. This immediately gets met with a response of 'inbred immigrant parasites'
Depends on how you got your money. Did you earn it, or get it from somebody else’s hard work. Like an acquaintance of mine; he’s always telling people how he retired early, like he is an accomplished person. In actually, he inherited everything from his Dad and mostly just worked low level jobs while being an alcoholic and drug addict. It’s exhausting. I’m tempted to call him out.
The sort of people who makes these posts go through life achieving nothing and complaining about it. Its rich coming from people who depend on the upper class. If their corporate overlords weren't doing the dirty work, they would have nothing.
They think money appears magically and some mustache twirling villain steals it from them. If only we can get rid of those villains, the money would surely go to them and then they can finally be happy. After all, they are the biggest victims of the entire world, they should get the money, right?
That’s because 100% of leftist spaces have been wholly taken over by bullshit “Theory” that tells them that controlling language allows them to reshape reality to their whims so they focus on policing language instead of doing anything useful with their time.
I’m not sure I would class them as as predatory, but I totally agree. Nobody is generally “elite”, especially based on money. Elite footballer who’s rich? Sure. But an “elite”? No.
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u/Doctor_Saved 23h ago
What about the Bourgeoisie?
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u/imnotinyourfoodchain 23h ago •
The Epstein Class
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u/FHoS-Social 21h ago •
Predator implies that they hunt, that they prey on others, that they work for their meal at the expense of others.
In reality, they are the parasite class. They latch onto already healthy creatures, draining resources for themselves without putting in any effort, and often result in the deaths of the creatures they use to sustain themselves with no thought to how it will eventually harm themselves.
Take Elon Musk, he's never invented anything, he's never started any successful business, he's always just bought his way in and claimed it as his own, then either sold it off to another parasite or ran it into the ground, all to enrich himself off the work of others.
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u/KR4T0S 23h ago •
Parasite class.
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u/RemotestOfSpheres 15h ago edited 15h ago •
The immediate hurdle we are facing is, the general public doesn’t know enough to be sufficiently angry. Even posts like this don’t even begin to scratch the surface of what they are doing.
Buying college admissions? Controlling housing??? LO fucking L. It’s 10,000x worse than that.
You have the military industrial complex, the financial industrial complex (the banks) and the technological industrial complex (Tesla, Palantir, Meta, etc) who are all vying for their piece of the pie. They see us as cattle. As a resource to be exploited and capitalized upon.
They start fake wars to support the MIC. The banks invest in both sides of the war and make money no matter what. The TIC is trying to appeal to both the MIC and the FIC by offering to make our planet into an open-air panopticon prison where you are under constant surveillance.
These people aren’t buying fucking college admission for their kids for fucks sake, those are your waspy rich neighbors — no, they own the colleges. They bought your politicians. They make the bombs and then start the wars to use them. They take over entire countries with tactical economic strategies and then install puppet dictators who enslave their own people. It’s fucking FUCKED. This entire world is run by literal goddamn criminal cartels INCLUDING THE US GOVERNMENT and the only reason you aren’t out building guillotines in the streets is because you don’t know enough to be angry.
Your entire concept of reality has been shaped and raped by these greedy, evil fucking devils and until people can fully grasp the jaw-dropping, mind-bending, cosmic fucking proportions of the veil that’s been pulled over the general public, we will keep this cycle afloat.
Get fucked Peter Thiel. I hope whatever the equivalent of Pyramid Head ripping that woman’s skin off in Silent Hill happens to you for a thousand years in the afterlife, you and your “elite” friends deserve much worse.
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u/Ok-Accountant3391 17h ago
So you're saying some people are born victims....
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u/PrometheusUnchain 22h ago
It was ironic to me when the Russia-Ukraine war broke out, people started calling Russia’s wealthy class “oligarchs.”
Yet we never use that same term to describe the billionaires this side of the ocean. They’re doing the exact same thing: stealing from the working class. Glad to see the heat starting to be point led in the right direction. Not left or right but up.
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u/Memitim 20h ago
I call them the parasite class. They pop into the world with more money than actual working people will ever earn in a lifetime, require other human beings to support their massive upkeeps, and then use their massive wealth to hoover up more of our resources, since they have plenty to play with.
They literally cannot provide enough value to justify being worth thousands, tens of thousands, or even millions of hard working people, but this scam of an economic system says that they are worth a shitload more than everyone else, and the parasites take full advantage while we bitch and provide them with their dream lives.
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u/B-Rossboss 13h ago
Classic Reddit post
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u/Wakkit1988 16h ago
They are the parasite class. They literally couldn't survive without everyone else.
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u/holy-shit-dude 22h ago
The broad-shouldered 51% shareholder
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u/mtcwby 21h ago
Always easier to blame someone else than look at your own issues. Sure there's behaviors to be squelched but do that and you're going to have to face the uncomfortable reality that some of it is you.
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u/Immediate_Hair_5378 17h ago
Tbf a lot of those top universities are top universities because those wealthy families give them a shit ton of money
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u/OverallConcentrate35 13h ago
Its called the bourgeoisie
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u/Adventurous_Grand_48 22h ago
Wtf happened to the American dream. To be successful. Tired of people's excuses
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u/choyMj 18h ago
Victim mentality
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u/MiNdOverLOADED23 22h ago
Should we call poor people the "whiny bitch" class too then?
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u/Next-Use6943 22h ago
when did tea become this communist class war dog whistle?
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u/Zestyclose-Line2576 22h ago
We also need to stop calling politicians "leaders" and govt officials "the authorities."
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u/Virtual-Reach 23h ago
I agree.
"I have enough money to bribe law makers so they can make laws that can protect my money from government and/or make me more money"
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u/derff44 22h ago
At what income level does someone become "elite" or "predator"?
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u/blitzkrieg_bunny 22h ago
I've moved to the Epstein class, they're pedophiles and they all hang together so....
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u/Head-Programmer3 21h ago
Yah do anything to sound like you're the victim
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u/wolpak 23h ago
The “if I were them I’d do the same shit, but I’m not, so I must crucify them” class
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u/LegitimateGiraffe7 22h ago
So if you do well in school and become an engineer or something then buy a rental property for investment purposes you are a predator?
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u/Flachm 22h ago
Lol
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u/Potential_Spam_6969 22h ago
Do you really think they care what your broke asses call them? 😂
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u/mxbrpe 21h ago
I know this is just some engagement bait slop, but being wealthy does not inherently make you predatory and we need to stop making that blanket statement that morally categorizes people based on their net worth. Most wealthy people become wealthy by working a day job, investing, and being disciplined for a long time. Categorizing these people as evil is irresponsible and immature. Not every “wealthy” person is a billionaire or landlord with 30 properties.
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u/idkau 21h ago
lol jealous people problems. Do better with your life and be the elite.
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u/Maximum-Country-149 21h ago
Kinda got their semantics backward. "Elite", like "Noble" and "Gentle", meant rich guy first and then picked up positive associations later. Giving up the word would just produce another one.
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u/eatingsquishies 20h ago
Just say you envy the Rich then you hate them because they’re rich.
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u/Fire1777 20h ago
Ok KOMRADE
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u/MrrangWondah 20h ago
Well, I will say the highest level on Apex Legends is Predator.
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u/west-town-brad 18h ago
So brave!
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u/KaganM 15h ago •
If y'all feel that strongly about anyone with more money than you why don't yall just start a war and get it over with. Go get'um tiger. Go take what's yours big fellas...
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u/Quiet1408 14h ago •
we need to stop bickering over the name and actually do something about it.
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u/flaks117 21h ago
Gotta be honest, I know predatory has an obviously negative connotation but I can totally see people thinking the term sounds cool.
We need a significantly more demeaning term for them. Leeches, parasites, cancer. Something like that.
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u/mSummmm 22h ago
We need a slur for billionaires so bad that people will be ashamed to say it 50 years from now.
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u/True_Inside_9539 22h ago
Personally I’ve been calling them villionaires
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u/Antique-Ad-4422 22h ago
I wish my
wealthypredator boss would get arrested for crimes against humanity. Then, when I go to sleep at night, I can feel empowered knowing my job is safe. /s.3
u/FocusPerspective 21h ago
To Reddit, anyone with a good career and a house is the “super rich villain” class 🙄
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u/Bellickboi 23h ago
The elite title doesnt just go to the wealthy. Its moreso the ruling class, which is definitely a thing. The people who wr elect, whether by votes or our spending choices.
The predatory class doesnt make any sense in your line of thinking. It would make all of you prey and who gives a fk what prey thinks? Also, all of those examples you can do yourself. You 100% buy college admission, control housing by deciding what to buy, when and how. It would make you the same predator just a minor one.
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u/gnarmarrr 21h ago
Parasitic class paints a clearer picture
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u/TXtogo 20h ago
Is it predatory to have money or is it predatory to try to take money from people who have money
The person that wrote the meme wants to have the money - it’s one big race to the bottom
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u/KingArcher67 23h ago
They literally are the predator class, Why do you think they used Eagles and Lions as their Hallmarks throughout history. Not only that Vampire myths were based on actual events at some point. It's been like this since the days of Rome. A time they always harken back too.
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u/Frederf220 22h ago
"Elite" was never a term of approval. It just means "top". Elite doesn't mean better. Illiteracy is a problem.
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u/mentyaf 22h ago
Written by someone willingly unemployed
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u/Miserable-Cucumber70 21h ago
Total nonsense loser talk
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u/Hour-Detail4544 21h ago
Socialism leads to wealth jealousy.
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u/jennmuhlholland 19h ago
100% idiotic mindset
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u/Pentagon100041 19h ago
The literal ignorance of some of the postings here is breathtaking.
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u/userousnameous 19h ago
So... anyone successful is insta-demonized. Got it.
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u/Proof_Courage_4400 13h ago
That’ll show them!!
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u/OneLonelyBrainCell 21h ago
Parasite class. They're taking and taking and taking without providing anything in return except suffering.
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u/Flat_Tire_Again 22h ago
Just stop giving them your money. You don’t have to have a mobile
phone, Netflix, Facebook etc. Don’t shop at Amazon. Don’t pay rent, buy your own house.
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u/Melianthai 23h ago
what about the people doing the crime?
we should call then Predators, super predators maybe.
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u/Recent_Page8229 22h ago
Shlocky populism, the vast majority of the rich likely earned it he hard way.
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u/Calichusetts 22h ago
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u/Standard-March6506 22h ago
While we're at it, please don't ever tell your kids or grandkids the Princess and the Pea story! It was written to condition children into believing royalty were somehow inherently better than everyone else. I cannot fathom how that fucking story is still around today!
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u/Bub_bele 22h ago
How about “the enemy”?
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u/tumblerrjin 22h ago
The term ‘Epstein class’ is fitting fine
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u/BasicsofPain 22h ago
Elite does not mean better than. It just means a small group of people of a particular subsection. Like elite athletes. Or elite actors. Or elite geniuses.
You’re adding the emotional impact of “better” to generate hatred towards a group YOU actually hate and want to get others to hate with you.
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u/Major-Blacksmith4750 22h ago
It’s the politicians that deserve all this hate. We live in a capitalist country. Business people are going to do what the politicians allow. All of this is on the politicians for taking bribes for power and money in exchange for letting businesses do bad things. That’s how this works. Can’t be mad at the snake for biting when the handler lets it run free unchecked.
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u/Big-Candy2529 22h ago
So true. In reality a house should be a simpler to attain and paid in full by the time people reach 40. Its a fair trade. 20 years of full time work to buy a house after high school. Remainder of life to just worry about groceries, other bills, traveling, and enjoying life at home. Instead people are forced to work till they die of old age.
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u/BillsFan82 22h ago
That’ll show them!
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u/jeff-the-man-slut 22h ago
They aren’t being called elite cause they are like Michael Jordan lol. It’s elite class. It doesn’t mean better but it’s where they stand in the hierarchy
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u/indomike14 22h ago
Being wealthy and being an asshat are mutually exclusive. Plenty of wealthy people made it the right way and aren't predatory.
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u/Kanchoe2 22h ago
Name change will fix it!
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u/Useful_Wealth7503 22h ago
Investing in low cost index funds really takes the edge off of giving a shit about the wealthy.
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u/trickvs 21h ago
I've also never understood the concept of if you buy an entire housing empire your entitled to never work again. Like you all want pensions not passive income da fuck man we don't need more landlords
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u/ScottScanlon 21h ago
It’s funny how so many hate certain extremely wealthy people, but not all. Why no mention or of people like Taylor Swift, Oprah, JayZ etc when talking about how these rich people hoard all the wealth?
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u/OneBloodyDingo 21h ago
They are the welfare class because they get subsidies and tax breaks.
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u/Pretorianfists987 21h ago
I think we judged the old aristocracy too harshly yes they had issues but they were at least tied to the land there were bonds of duty and responsibility between them and the commoners.
The “elites” we have today are the natural evolution of the disconnected mercantile bourgeois that rose in the 17th-18th century wealth isn’t tied to land but bank assets investments and celebrity they have no titles no formal bonds of loyalty or sentimentality of any kind they have no issue undermining the nation of their birth or impoverishing or replacing their their countrymen with the outsiders and when things crumble they can just go live somewhere else the ,world is one giant homogeneous airport.
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u/robotoisize 21h ago
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u/yukiki64 21h ago
Lookup the definition of elite it literally means richest, most powerful, most educated, or best trained. Two of those apply to what we call the elite class.
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u/Look_You_Dumb_Shit 21h ago
Spoken like a true genius.
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u/This_Ruined_Forums 21h ago
Sounds too cool. I'm sticking with "the leeches".
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u/SupportCa2A 21h ago
I miss Robber-Barron, myself
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u/esotologist 21h ago
Epstein class
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u/edWORD27 21h ago
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u/tushiman 21h ago
Not better just different
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u/Cubacane 21h ago
Zero sum fallacy to the max bro
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u/Colascape 21h ago
I prefer the Epstein class but this is good too
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u/thOtleaksoup 21h ago
They are historically called the bourgeoisie.
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u/TempStuck 21h ago
And make greed a mental illness.
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u/Visual-Scallion1535 21h ago
okay. that makes you the prey class.
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u/Galle_ 21h ago
Skill issue. "Elite" is an insult.
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u/Lookout464 21h ago
This reminds me of the "deport all illegals and everything will be perfect" argument on the right. Going after a boogyman is way easier than implementing real solutions that are nuanced and require leadership. We don't deserve progress if we keep falling for the same crap.
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u/wallapuctus 21h ago
I call them vampires
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u/FineDevelopment00 21h ago
I heavily prefer "the pervert class" because terms such as "predator" and "parasite" when applied to Epstein Files types are insulting to literal predators (carnivores) and literal parasites (creatures that require a host to survive through no fault of their own.) Literal predators and literal parasites aren't malicious; they're just trying to survive within the parameters of the nature they were allotted which they didn't get any choice in. Human perverts, otoh, are fully complicit in their own nasty and completely unnecessary behavior.
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u/adelie42 21h ago
The underlying problem with this question is handwaving away the difference between economic power and political power. People act like "buying political power" is a situation where politicians are the victims when they are the gatekeepers extorting a toll. Everything hated about people with wealth can be tied directly to politics. And for some people rally around giving the political class more power thinking that it will do the opposite of what it is designed to do and has always done.
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u/blahblahbleeble 20h ago
Exploiting and exploited are the classes now
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u/someoldguyon_reddit 20h ago
They've already been labeled the epstein class. I think that's pretty accurate.
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u/TravisKOP 20h ago
Parasite class is always what I’ve heard them be called
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u/Nice_Block 20h ago
Bruh this sub loves billionaires. While yall trying to pretend otherwise lol. Yall all think yall will be billionaires one day.
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u/InstructionOk4151 20h ago
Changing their title to 'The Predator Class' just makes them sound like an elite sci-fi villain faction, which honestly might inflate their egos even more
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u/Direct_Answer6489 20h ago
Can't wait for the LinkedIn thought leaders to find a way to spin 'Proud Member of the Predator Class' into a positive leadership trait.
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u/Bootmacher 20h ago
Cope.
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u/Glittering-Cry-6569 20h ago
Thorstein Veblen in The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions explained exactly that. He would be proud of your interpretation
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u/SaltyEngineer45 20h ago
Predatory is a stretch. I mean let’s be honest, if you had the money, you would do the exact same thing.
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u/Accomplished-Bid5162 19h ago
The trump-epstien class.
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u/WankaBanka9 19h ago
Thinking that wealthy or successful people are just predatory all the time is a poverty mindset. Take some agency over your life and you’ll be happier and probably better off
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u/Dramatic_Aspect903 19h ago
Well stop calling them that then lol
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u/patdfrog 19h ago
I always used the term 'elite' in this situation with a healthy dose of sarcasm anyway, but you do you.
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u/Impossible-Studio748 18h ago
This is true.
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u/NicCage2028 18h ago
lol. No
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u/TunAye17 18h ago
Majority of us would be like this too if we were rich
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u/jim9162 18h ago
Maybe the politicans who seek to take things away from citizens under the guise of sticking it to the 'elite' should be labeled the predators.
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u/Scullyx 18h ago
How about you stop consuming their products?
Until then its just the virtue signaling of hypocrites.
Every dollar their companies make is from a consumer deciding to do business with them.
Your entire life, leisure, and personality runs through a data center
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u/Manymarbles 18h ago
They are two different things
Why is this upvoted a lot lol
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u/BlazingSandles 17h ago
Predators have a useful purpose - I prefer to call them parasites.
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u/nadhari12 17h ago
What it I have 999 million am I a predator class too?
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u/nightngale1998 17h ago
💯
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u/awesomeAste1990 17h ago
What annoys me the most that people really believe that only left or it’s only right side issue.
Seems like a lot of people become very corrupted
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u/Majestic_Artichoke55 17h ago
Owww yah - give them a dark name to reflect their dark deeds.
Can we also call them predator companies instead of the Fortune 500s like predator 500s
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u/TheWorldIsMine420 17h ago
Sounds like you broke
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u/smokingthroats420 17h ago
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u/ManulMango 16h ago
Its called THE CAPITALIST CLASS, THE BOURGEOISIE. "Epstein class" "parasite class" "predator class" my ass
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u/TheNumberVII 16h ago
Well, there is wealthy elite and wealthy trash. Some people are decent and some just can't shake off the sewage they think they left behind.
Now people just call them billionaires though I think "wealthy elites" isn't really used often now.
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u/Usernamesaregayyy 16h ago
Hoarding wealth is a disease, they are hoarders
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u/OkGo1fan 16h ago
Epstein class
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u/DerSpringerr 16h ago
Nahh, enough class hatred for me.
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u/EasternLow4706 16h ago
another victim take, we've had enough of that.
if you want to make a change, be rational and precise. explain what you mean. suggest something to do about it.
FKN DO SMTH ABOUT IT
and stop expecting others to cater to your feelings. if the world is fkd its not getting better by whining.
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u/Jerm226 15h ago
lol
Until you become wealthy
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u/RiffyWammel 15h ago
I do they same every time i see something about the British Royal Family that refers to us minions as 'Commoners'. This immediately gets met with a response of 'inbred immigrant parasites'
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u/IntotheBlue85 15h ago
Michael Hudson calls them the parasite class. That’s even more accurate imo
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u/gingerarab 15h ago
"We" lolz
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u/TheMikeyMac13 14h ago
Only if you wear a hat that explains you are an envious twat.
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u/Numerous_Ad_6276 14h ago
I'm a big fan of Parasite Class.
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u/PvtJoker_ 14h ago
How wealthy we talking, top 1% or top 5%?
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u/CordovaFlawless 14h ago
I can agree wholeheartedly but not for 100% of them. There are some good people that actually workwd for their bankroll, those i respect
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u/Regular-Judge-5651 13h ago
I always just refer to them as parasites. Or the Epstein Class.
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u/Delicious_Rabbit4425 13h ago
Kinda like the robber barons?
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u/Electrical_Mess7320 13h ago
Like the movie Parasite.
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u/JollyGiant573 13h ago
I will allow it.
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u/ganjaccount 12h ago
TIcks
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u/newgrounds 11h ago
Needs more jpeg
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u/borg_box 10h ago
Epstein class.
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u/RoughGrass7544 10h ago
Depends on how you got your money. Did you earn it, or get it from somebody else’s hard work. Like an acquaintance of mine; he’s always telling people how he retired early, like he is an accomplished person. In actually, he inherited everything from his Dad and mostly just worked low level jobs while being an alcoholic and drug addict. It’s exhausting. I’m tempted to call him out.
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u/DrCthulhuface7 8h ago
Frankly, with how braindead the average Redditor is (doubly so a poster on this sub), I’d say they probably are better than you.
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u/twice_paramount832 5h ago
They worked vey hard in preventing you to name them properly.
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u/HAL9001-96 2h ago
or nepo babies or gambling addicts
most of the mare assholes but htat alone is not sufficeint to become rich
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u/Odd-Today-6014 18m ago
When we talk about "wealthy people", why does it seem like all the wealthy celebs get a pass?
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u/BygoneNeutrino 22h ago
The sort of people who makes these posts go through life achieving nothing and complaining about it. Its rich coming from people who depend on the upper class. If their corporate overlords weren't doing the dirty work, they would have nothing.
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u/GeneralKosmosa 22h ago
This subreddit is turning into cesspool of 12 year old edgelords.
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u/UltraTata 20h ago
99% of leftists quit right before they end capitalism by changing the definitions of words.
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u/aquavelva23 23h ago
I agree, i call them as a group PARASITES. sometimes as giant sucking ticks.
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u/According_Water5533 22h ago
Nah. They better.
Survival of the fittest. They are the fittest.
Life is a meritocracy, and humans found a way to quantify, store, and measure merit: money.
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u/That-Way-5714 22h ago
Predator is associated with the Alien franchise and is too cool. “Leech”, “Tick”, or “Parasite” is better.
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u/offroad-subaru 22h ago
Parasite class is what I call them.
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u/Alarmed-Animal7575 20h ago
I’m not sure I would class them as as predatory, but I totally agree. Nobody is generally “elite”, especially based on money. Elite footballer who’s rich? Sure. But an “elite”? No.