If America doesn't get a handle on wealth disparity we're going to see a lot more of this, and certainly worse.
You can say that attacking the buses the wrong thing to do, but the moral high ground isn't going to stop it from happening.
You can say that attacking the buses the wrong thing to do, but the moral high ground isn't going to stop it from happening.
For that reason, I say this is just senseless violence that has nothing to do with wealth inequality.
Employees of organizations like these could be considered PMC's in the eyes for someone who has out out for their employer…
Um, if you wouldn’t mind...
The CEO making 100 million a year has no-shit legit bodyguards that shoot back.
For instance, the 2012 Forbes list of highest-paid executives found only ONE CEO earning over 100m - his name was John H Hammergren.
The average CEO in the US makes 164k, which is almost identical to the salary for "Senior Software Engineer" at Google. Including options and benefits, a (senior) Google engineer is almost certainly earning much MORE than most CEOs.
Sources:
Source: https://www.forbes.com/lists/2012/12/ceo-compensation-12_lan...
https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Senior-Software-Engi...
https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Chief_Executive_Off...
Russia, France, Spain, etc. etc.
I encourage everybody interested in trying to prevent that outcome to listen to this[3] talk where Blyth summarizes the root cause and suggests a few reasonable steps towards a solution.
[1] prof. of political economy at Brown
In the above talk[3], Blyth mentions how someone geolocated every mentioned location in the infamous Podesta emails released by WikiLeaks. The most frequent location mentioned across all the emails? "Martha" ['s vineyards]. The 2nd was "Hampton", followed by SF and NY. Everything[4] else was two standard deviations lower.
[4] I might be forgetting another city
They buy: security guards, self shooting drones and self shooting guns.
In another recent interview[5], Blyth discusses this topic in more detail, including "plan B" for the super-rich that have realized the tactical disadvantages of the Hamptons: escape to a secure bunker in New Zealand[6]
[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5iia9kdsuM
[6] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-...
Let us fast-forward to a future, where drones armed with munitions like the BLU-116 that patrol the skys/seas, can be rooted based on information/tools available to the public…