Reminds me that the whole concept of generations is something manufactured of whole cloth and meant to divide us, but more than that, that real people are compassionate and understanding. All that stuff is just fake.

It gives me hope for unity.

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    And, short of being a billionaire or being willing to commit a terrorist act (which I 100% do not endorse)

    In a society where healthcare and housing are purchased at market rather than a right, financial exploitation is an overt act of violence against each and every one of us.

    Violence begets violence. However, a lack of a sufficiently violent response to an unjustified violent act begets repetition and escalation of that violent act.

    What galls me is that we have no means of recourse really.

    Guillotines.

    Our means of recourse is the guillotine. That we haven’t hauled a guillotine to the door of a billionaire and demanded he reduce his wealth to $999,999,999 is a travesty.

    The longer we refrain from using the figurative guillotines of law and order to bring these robber barons into line, the more likely we will need to resort to literal guillotines.