Before every major war, the media tends to be full of very brave yet inexperienced pronouncements that the war will be over in weeks. The Athenian Sicilian Expedition in the Peloponnesian war, WWI, WWII, the second Iraq war, its all the same propaganda story.
Trying to kill the entire 99%er population of the world by starvation to preserve resources for the rich is likely to make "starting a land war in Asia" look like brilliant military strategy.
One interesting side effect of the existing system, is stratification of wealthy by family connection, race, and gender is likely to mean the smartest people will be on the other, larger side. So one side has the numbers, the brains, self preservation instincts, probably quite a bit of anger and hope, and the other side has ... money, temporarily. Wonder how that'll turn out.
I think people won't be dying of starvation en masse. There will be welfare programs, just like there are now. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a giant slum instead. There are already huge slums today, why don't their inhabitants rebel? The future poor won't rebel for the same reason, whatever it is.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a giant slum instead.
That's a likely future. Lots of people in big housing projects, surviving but not much more than that. About 1% do really well, maybe 5-10% are "middle class", and the rest are warehoused in housing blocks. That was the normal living condition in the Soviet bloc, and today's urban China is much like that. The US is headed that way, but with better gadgets in your tiny apartment.
Trying to kill the entire 99%er population of the world by starvation to preserve resources for the rich is likely to make "starting a land war in Asia" look like brilliant military strategy.
One interesting side effect of the existing system, is stratification of wealthy by family connection, race, and gender is likely to mean the smartest people will be on the other, larger side. So one side has the numbers, the brains, self preservation instincts, probably quite a bit of anger and hope, and the other side has ... money, temporarily. Wonder how that'll turn out.