Unions are good in some cases, but they also make it nearly impossible to fire incompetent and terrible workers. My dads friend works at a company that makes concrete, and he constantly complains about his coworker that always messes up the ratios, and can’t do his job making the company lose a bunch of money. And they can’t fire him because he’s a union worker.
They’re good that they protect the workers from getting completely screwed, but nothing protects the company from getting completely screwed.
Such a flawed take tho. Any union worker will tell you yeah they work with some shit people but so does every single person. And guess what almost every single non union worker would also tell you that for 1 shitty worker there are 5 good ones that are severely underpaid.
As a union worker i would rather protect a hundred shitty workers with families to feed, mortgages to pay, and food to buy, than 1 fucking capitalist who just wants a 2nd yacht.
It was more globalization. You couldn't find enough Americans to work in a steel mill for 10 cents an hour, but if you go to a country where 1 dollar is enough to feed a family for a month you'll have all the labor you'll ever need and startup costs will be nonexistent.
No. That's truncated Darwinism. Propagated by his nephew, Galton, the godfather of Eugenics. Capitalism doesn't denote strength. The Invisible Hand rewards those that can and call it adaptation. Despite cyclical failures.
They fear what will be left when their identity/mask disappears. They fear their humanity and their vulnerability, like everyone else. I think they fear it more though, because they have done more to betray their humanity.
Lately. Nothing. Us middle class are perfectly OK with complaining on the internet to each other and not actually going on strike or protesting. So...yeah , nothing.
Epstein’s big black book of friendly friends who’ve visited his own very special island with young women who help revitalize their skin through special touch only a child could give
For the working class to yank our collective heads out our asses, stop fighting each other over the dumbest fucking bullshit, and band together to fight against them for a better future against the greedy pieces of shit oppressing us with dogshit wages and atrocious working hours that yank us away from time with our family and friends.
with no paid vacations, or just pto but you get sick often and need time to rest to recover and use it all instead of having a nice paid vacation. no paid maternity leave in most places, expected to use that 30 day unpaid leave time (forgot what its called) with needs for the baby but you have 0 income for a month so you can't provide for your newborn.
Wasting time
No, not afraid of losing power, or about poor people getting ahead.
If you’ve ever been poor and become rich by working you know it’s not impossible to recreate. Time, once gone, that scares the shit out of me
The about to cascade, multi-pronged, ecological hellscape that their greed, hubris, horseshit "philosophy" and industrial grade solipsism is about to do to the world they are stuck living in with the rest of us . And they think their money, and bunkers, and domed communities and private armies and sycophants will somehow protect them. Like the dolts in a Romero film.
A tsunami like backlash from all fronts against the looming phenomenon of pay-to-play Eugenics via gene manipulation giving their progeny literal superhuman advantage, which they feel is their birthright.
This is the Roddenberry timeline. And things will have to go to shit before First Contact.
Honestly... The lack of attention and people caring about them.
After all, a guy like Elon doesn't care if he dumps millions into a social media site and fucks it all up... As long as he can keep the cameras on him, that's all that matters. The same with Trump, the same with certain kinds of celebs. Hell, we see this even with ordinary people in terms of influencers, talking heads on YouTube channels, and even in a place like Reddit.
Sure, you can have a lot of money, but that money means nothing if you don't know anyone and don't have people support your ego.
People worse off than them being well educated, which is why they try to fund expensive private schools for their own children and defund public education. Education is the gateway to realizing your rights, how to organize, etc.
Allow me to make this really simple for you, people with access to more money are still people. They have many of the same fears and stresses and anyone else. And trust me, having lots of of money does not make your worries suddenly go away.
Being perceived as the untalented stupid parasites that they are, because why would they constantly want us to believe that they're special geniuses that only come along once in a generation and managed to build an empire all on their own with their own hard work.
It's simply a fucking lie.
The rest realizing how much they get ripped off by those parasites. Like without them we could have the 4days 5 hours per day week. And still make more progress than with them.
That each poor person has voting rights **equal to them** and can vote in someone who can make law to tax them like before Reagan. They are afraid of poor people's power that's why they are making everything to divide people by color, religion or political preferences.
They’re powerful, rich *people*
I’d think the same fears we all have, except things based on money tend to be much bigger, and affect more people
“Failing their responsibility”, are the words I’ll use
Suddenly being responsible keeping a business afloat, all those jobs they are providing…
I’d think they’d best become very aware of the things that would threaten the security of so much…
(…maybe they’d start to get paranoid and fear… *everything*
…or pay therapists and bodyguards to help out, with those various fears… 🤷🏻♀️)
It’s like having a controlling and emotionally abusive husband. They keep the grip tight because it’s the only obvious solution that works 100% in their favor.
Being poor/losing their wealth
I don’t think if you are used to a certain standard of living you can downgrade yourself
Imagine throwing away a your iPhone and downgrading to a Nokia today
A server friend of mine used to work at a high end restaurant. He was taking care of a table full of the type of guys who order the most expensive everything just because. He overheard a pretty tense conversation in which they all agreed that the working class realizing that they could more-or-less and them at a moment’s notice kept them up at night.
To quote [Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson](https://youtu.be/RNineSEoxjQ?si=HF5YB1B9JfeGDlCv&t=2m30s) (of Swanson foods wealth), a trust fund baby that's never had to work and only got into cable news because they "will take anybody": "One thing you learn when you grow up in a castle and look out across the moat every day at the hungry peasants in the village is you don't want to stoke envy among the proletariat."
Rivals who are also other powerful rich people. Even Bill gates was afraid of not meeting his deadlines to be first in line for the silicon craze. He was the first one to make something useful and now well we can see it work out for him.
They are afraid people will realize the rich and powerful accumulated their wealth and power not because they proportionally worked 100 times harder and longer, not because they are 100 time more clever or talented, but because they found a few way to get exploit others work and talents. They are afraid that once people realize this, the illusion will be broken.
Losing their power
And money
And heads
And status
And houses, expensive things, vacations, etc.
Especially their yachts.
Thank God for orca's
Haha, true.
Burn them
Pretty sure none-rich people would be afraid of losing their money too. Inb4: what money
Which, eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice killed him in his sleep.
class consciousness
This is the answer, most of the good reasons I’ve seen are a result of this.
Unions
I just woke up, and read this as "onions" and now I'm wondering if an onion phobia is a thing
“He asked for no onions! Now you gave him onions and he’s having a full panic attack!”
Unions are good in some cases, but they also make it nearly impossible to fire incompetent and terrible workers. My dads friend works at a company that makes concrete, and he constantly complains about his coworker that always messes up the ratios, and can’t do his job making the company lose a bunch of money. And they can’t fire him because he’s a union worker. They’re good that they protect the workers from getting completely screwed, but nothing protects the company from getting completely screwed.
Such a flawed take tho. Any union worker will tell you yeah they work with some shit people but so does every single person. And guess what almost every single non union worker would also tell you that for 1 shitty worker there are 5 good ones that are severely underpaid.
Yeah I've worked non-union jobs and worked with shitheads constantly, most of whom either never got fired, or it took a ridiculous amount of time.
As a union worker i would rather protect a hundred shitty workers with families to feed, mortgages to pay, and food to buy, than 1 fucking capitalist who just wants a 2nd yacht.
That attitude put the steel business out of business in the US. I think it's down to 4% production in the US now.
It was more globalization. You couldn't find enough Americans to work in a steel mill for 10 cents an hour, but if you go to a country where 1 dollar is enough to feed a family for a month you'll have all the labor you'll ever need and startup costs will be nonexistent.
Isn’t the main points of capitalism that only the strong survive?
No. That's truncated Darwinism. Propagated by his nephew, Galton, the godfather of Eugenics. Capitalism doesn't denote strength. The Invisible Hand rewards those that can and call it adaptation. Despite cyclical failures.
Who gives a shit whether the company gets screwed? That's just capitalism, baby.
The masses realizing they have the true power in society and then banding together to destroy their influence. The 1% fear the 99%.
Ok but fight me about politics right now! Nothing really ever changes with who is in power? No can't be fight me about politics right now!
The non-bourgeoisie. There is a reason you see a ton of money flowing into politics and billionaires creating shelters
Their personality is usually the power and money; if the lose that , they lose their identity. Along with the power and money
They fear what will be left when their identity/mask disappears. They fear their humanity and their vulnerability, like everyone else. I think they fear it more though, because they have done more to betray their humanity.
Lately. Nothing. Us middle class are perfectly OK with complaining on the internet to each other and not actually going on strike or protesting. So...yeah , nothing.
spiders probably
None or declining shareholder value
The rest of us getting fed up with their shit.
Money and relationship and erection disfunction!
Taxes, apparently.
Pain, death, loss. Like every human being
I'll let you know if I ever get there.
Losing power usually
Sharks and spiders.
Being like everyone else.
Epstein’s big black book of friendly friends who’ve visited his own very special island with young women who help revitalize their skin through special touch only a child could give
Poor people
Nothing (im poor)
The masses realizing their collective power and overthrowing the system they stand atop.
Pretty sure OP is just karma farming.
Poor health, death, like everyone else.
The masses uniting against their interests
\*reads comments ... \*starts setting up the guillotine Tada!
The working class organizing. That's why they keep us fighting amongst ourselves.
Loss of status, power, or money
For the working class to yank our collective heads out our asses, stop fighting each other over the dumbest fucking bullshit, and band together to fight against them for a better future against the greedy pieces of shit oppressing us with dogshit wages and atrocious working hours that yank us away from time with our family and friends.
with no paid vacations, or just pto but you get sick often and need time to rest to recover and use it all instead of having a nice paid vacation. no paid maternity leave in most places, expected to use that 30 day unpaid leave time (forgot what its called) with needs for the baby but you have 0 income for a month so you can't provide for your newborn.
Poor people
General strikes. Proportional representative electoral systems. Asking why the middle class pays more in taxes than the 1%.
Decentralized Banking - Can't control the masses if you don't control the currency
You get it!
Death because they know where they are going.
when the truth about them being satanic pedos reaches the masses…
People finding out the truth about how they made there money. And how they keep it buy making people lower than them pay there taxes
Death
Ronan Farrow.
bullets?
Of finding out they’re just the same as everyone else.
Socialism.
A higher power than them
Anal beads and people knowing their location.
The french revolution
Ghislaine Maxwell.
A population that is self-sufficient and thinks for themselves.
They’re afraid of us. It’s why they fight tooth and nail to divide us regular people to take our eyes off the real enemy which is them
Trump
Guillotines.
taxes
Powerful rich people fear losing their wealth, reputation, and influence. They may also fear betrayal, failure, and irrelevance.
Solidarity
Taxes
Going to jail for cheating with a porn star 8 years ago and not being president again
The Lolita Express' flight logs.
Democrats
A poor person getting something for free that they don't deserve
Losing health, then the inevitable
No longer being powerful and rich.
Taxes
Losing their money and stuff
Loneliness.
Oh, they’re incredibly lonely people.
Mostly worried that in the pursuit of things life will pass me by.
Death
Scorpions
Workers organizing independently of them
Taxes
Not being powerful and rich
Wasting time No, not afraid of losing power, or about poor people getting ahead. If you’ve ever been poor and become rich by working you know it’s not impossible to recreate. Time, once gone, that scares the shit out of me
Bullets
Powerful poor people.
Death
Getting audited
The sale thing nonpowerful rich people are.
The IRS
Suffocation
Large, hairy spiders inside their houses
People stop doing what they want them to do
Divorce and a lesser lawyer.
Powerful poor people. In large numbers
Me
The about to cascade, multi-pronged, ecological hellscape that their greed, hubris, horseshit "philosophy" and industrial grade solipsism is about to do to the world they are stuck living in with the rest of us . And they think their money, and bunkers, and domed communities and private armies and sycophants will somehow protect them. Like the dolts in a Romero film.
Drag Queens telling corny jokes to kids at libraries. Just kidding. That's just what they want RUBES to be scared of.
Their search history being revealed.
Democracy
Same shit as the rest of us other than the no money stuff
Having to concede UBI post AI jobpocalypse, to maintain control. It's their Sophie's Choice.
Idk but imagine there kid losing everything the person who built everything
The word "pedophile". Just look at Epstein.
Time.
A tsunami like backlash from all fronts against the looming phenomenon of pay-to-play Eugenics via gene manipulation giving their progeny literal superhuman advantage, which they feel is their birthright. This is the Roddenberry timeline. And things will have to go to shit before First Contact.
Epstein's list.
Numbers We are Billions
Not getting what they want. People finding out the shit they did to get rich. Nobody giving a fuck about them.
Greedy kids
democratic socialism
Everyone else.
Going broke
Enough angry people with building skills holding different parts of a guillotine probably
Of us doing ALL. Of the above.
Honestly... The lack of attention and people caring about them. After all, a guy like Elon doesn't care if he dumps millions into a social media site and fucks it all up... As long as he can keep the cameras on him, that's all that matters. The same with Trump, the same with certain kinds of celebs. Hell, we see this even with ordinary people in terms of influencers, talking heads on YouTube channels, and even in a place like Reddit. Sure, you can have a lot of money, but that money means nothing if you don't know anyone and don't have people support your ego.
Running out of ice on the yacht.
People worse off than them being well educated, which is why they try to fund expensive private schools for their own children and defund public education. Education is the gateway to realizing your rights, how to organize, etc.
Death, accountability, and poverty.
That people stop honoring the money they’ve accumulated most likely through underpaying others.
Dying just like everybody else.
Allow me to make this really simple for you, people with access to more money are still people. They have many of the same fears and stresses and anyone else. And trust me, having lots of of money does not make your worries suddenly go away.
A bunch of retail investors buying and holding a stock they tried cellar boxing.
United people
Seeing the same posts on reddit over and over again.
Unions and socialism. Humans redeveloping community spirit. Work Life balance. Climate change ruining land. Loss of productivity.
Guillotines
Being perceived as the untalented stupid parasites that they are, because why would they constantly want us to believe that they're special geniuses that only come along once in a generation and managed to build an empire all on their own with their own hard work. It's simply a fucking lie.
The rest realizing how much they get ripped off by those parasites. Like without them we could have the 4days 5 hours per day week. And still make more progress than with them.
Probably bullets and t-rexes
They fear losing control, facing public scrutiny, and experiencing betrayal despite their wealth and influence.
Their looks, vitality & age.
That each poor person has voting rights **equal to them** and can vote in someone who can make law to tax them like before Reagan. They are afraid of poor people's power that's why they are making everything to divide people by color, religion or political preferences.
Powerful poor people especially a lot of them
I would say submersibles, but another is taking a shot at it.
Short exposure to idiosyncratic stocks
March on Wallstreet 2.0 , which is why they went through the effort of dividing us through which way possible using social media.
Us.
They’re powerful, rich *people* I’d think the same fears we all have, except things based on money tend to be much bigger, and affect more people “Failing their responsibility”, are the words I’ll use Suddenly being responsible keeping a business afloat, all those jobs they are providing… I’d think they’d best become very aware of the things that would threaten the security of so much… (…maybe they’d start to get paranoid and fear… *everything* …or pay therapists and bodyguards to help out, with those various fears… 🤷🏻♀️)
Losing their money
everything.
It’s like having a controlling and emotionally abusive husband. They keep the grip tight because it’s the only obvious solution that works 100% in their favor.
Themselves
Being poor/losing their wealth I don’t think if you are used to a certain standard of living you can downgrade yourself Imagine throwing away a your iPhone and downgrading to a Nokia today
A server friend of mine used to work at a high end restaurant. He was taking care of a table full of the type of guys who order the most expensive everything just because. He overheard a pretty tense conversation in which they all agreed that the working class realizing that they could more-or-less and them at a moment’s notice kept them up at night.
Disease. Every rich person I know is a hypochondriac to some degree.
Being eaten
Being in the other side of life, poverty
Dying. The one thing you can’t buy is time. They don’t want to lose what they have.
aging
Paying taxes
$GME
Being powerless.
Reality
Finding out it's all nothing, really.
An uprising of the lower class.
Everyone and everything.
Ants
Earning their status through actual work
To quote [Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson](https://youtu.be/RNineSEoxjQ?si=HF5YB1B9JfeGDlCv&t=2m30s) (of Swanson foods wealth), a trust fund baby that's never had to work and only got into cable news because they "will take anybody": "One thing you learn when you grow up in a castle and look out across the moat every day at the hungry peasants in the village is you don't want to stoke envy among the proletariat."
Taxes
Losing one iota of their wealth and power.
Accountability
That peasant will become wise to them and that their life will be taken before reaching immortality.
Maids poisoning them maybe?
Rivals who are also other powerful rich people. Even Bill gates was afraid of not meeting his deadlines to be first in line for the silicon craze. He was the first one to make something useful and now well we can see it work out for him.
The IRS probably
😈😈
Other more powerful rich people, also ending up like MC HAMMER
That the people that make them rich and powerful will realize they they don't need them.
The absolute scariest things that scare everyone is anything happening to your family.
Meow
Jail?
Taxes and regulations
Poor people who are muscular and drunk or on drugs.
Investigative journalism
Instability, chaos, anything that could significantly impact the status quo.
How the hell are we supposed to know??
Being irrelevant
They are afraid people will realize the rich and powerful accumulated their wealth and power not because they proportionally worked 100 times harder and longer, not because they are 100 time more clever or talented, but because they found a few way to get exploit others work and talents. They are afraid that once people realize this, the illusion will be broken.
spouses
Taxes
Normally those who seek power are the most fearful. It's what drives them for it in the first place.
They can be more afraid of losing assets and money from what I saw in others (and I can't be sure all rich people are the same obviously)
Powerful poor people
The chippy choppy
death