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I have always said that so long as McDonalds has a hot burger for a few bucks on every street corner, there will not be a revolution in the US.
Rather than starving to death, we have an obesity epidemic along with an opiate epidemic, which prevents the revolution from getting up off the couch.
Not trying to claim a conspiracy here, just the way things are.
Yeah, the gap between the wealthiest and everyone else literally does not matter at all, when it comes to 'motivation for revolution'.
The overall level/amount/condition of poverty is what matters. And let's be real, things are not nearly as bad in the US today as they were in France before the French Revolution. Not even close.
Fact is, if you magically bumped everyone up so that no one was making less than $75k a year, the wealth gap would be essentially identical to what it is now, because the gap between zero and 75k is nothing compared to the gap between 75k and hundreds of billions. But no one would be suffering in poverty, so would anyone care about the wealth gap, then? I seriously doubt it.
Great point!
It only takes about 3% of the population to push effective revolution. That's still over ten million people. We might be getting close.
McDonald's charging $10-20 for shit-tier burgers in some of the US:
McDonald's is expensive now.
A double cheeseburger was a dollar a few years ago, sure. But it's almost that much for a single nugget these days.
A hash brown is 3.50 at the one by my office.
Looked it up:
McDonald's double cheeseburger hasn't been a dollar for over 15 years (started in 2002, and in 2008, the McDouble replaced it, which had one fewer slice of cheese). And the McDouble itself stopped being a dollar in 2013, over a decade ago. Bit more than "a few years ago"--I think Covid screwed up everyone's perception of time more than usual, lol.
That said, I get lunch at work several times a week at Wendy's and always pay less than $5, not too bad all things considered imo.
Wendy's is still a pretty good deal. A cup of chili and some nuggets ain't a bad price.
Ahhh so the Wall-E form of public control.
I can see it
Conspiracies happen in secret. There's no hidden agenda, just the publicly-stated agenda.
Just offer free food and specially free opiates if they start a revolution. There's many means to a end