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It’s not the “predator” class - it’s the parasite class.
Calling them “predators” will - apart from the fact that it’s inaccurate - simply flatter their egos
Parasite, not predator.
Or the exploiter class
I like this one because when I was really into MMOs it was interesting to see the birth of exploiter philosophy within the game. Then the positions that the exploiters would always take when it was suggested we crack down on cheating was that they were being unfairly persecuted and their mere presence benefits everyone.
Even after the exploit was patched they usually got to keep their ill-gotten gains because they would turn what ever it was into intangibles or launder everything.
It was just a complete microcosm of capitalism. Which can all be summed up by their creedo, “exploit early and exploit often.”
Even funnier, Steve Bannon had ties with WoW gold farmers.
More in line with bourgeoisie, the class term should be “parasitaire”. Hell, it even has Paris in it. 🤪
No it doesn’t have Paris in it :p
Ah yes, the famous city of “Paras” France.
Close enough for me. People pronounce it all different ways anyway
Yeah, predators earn their food, typically.
Wealthy people are almost always born with it… Just like many parasites.
I prefer the term “Parasite Class”.
Many think the poor to be parasites, but they are actually the opposite.
After all, what is the mark of a parasite? It makes the host think that it is benign, of no harm whatsoever, and in some cases it even convinces its host that it provides a benefit. All the while it visits the most harmful deprivations upon the host, right up to sucking the lifeblood from it until it dies a horrible death.
No other tranche of human society matches those attributes more effectively than the wealthy.
I agree, but I’d take it a step further and say the ultra rich are even worse than parasites. Parasites serve a purpose to the stability of their ecosystems. Billionaires just consume.
Even then, viruses are a crucial part of pretty much any ecosystem on the planet. If viruses all disappeared it would be the end of pretty much all complex life on the planet for a while. Maybe forever depending on exactly how crucial they are to evolution as a whole.
Well if I learned one thing about biology it is that it eludes simplistic notions as the one presented in the meme, so I get where you are coming from here. However I very much doubt the sudden disappearance of viruses would end complex life or evolution, since there are other avenues of intra-species mutation and inter-species gene transfer. It would doubtlessly upset the balance of pretty much every existing ecosystem of course.
That said, don’t overthink it, it’s just a meme about the (slightly modified) Agent Smith reference so neatly lying around in the parent comment.
I hear this in Andrew Ryan’s voice.
For me they are parasites, as they live off of the work of everyone else without contributing.
They contribute sometimes by creating jobs, so they can get richer and fatter while still exploiting those who are taking those new jobs.
jOb cReAtOrS.
Everyone contributes sometimes, even the brain eating parasite from Tsikander, stop being an apologist.
I’m not. Idk how you missed the harsh criticism in my comment.
So they are contributing?
Leeches, because that’s what they are.
Who calls them elite? Only they themselves.
And the media conglomerates they own.
Exactly. They use those to build this lie that they are this grand untouchable class of super beings, but if the OceanGate 2 scandal showed us anything, they are not invincible. They are mortal just like us.
The issue is most of us would behave the same way if we were the ones with all the money. Not everyone of course, but a fair number of us.
Wait, elite are wealthy? I thought I was a “Coastal Elite Libtard” because I live in a coastal state, am educated, sit at a desk, and earn more than median wage even after adjusting for high cost of living. I worked hard for that college education (many years ago before inflation took it out of reach), now i have to be wealthy too?
Dammit, MAGAts have much simpler criteria and cheaper land, maybe I need to swerve hard right and land in a flyover state
I just call them leeches.
The hoarding class
The one description in this entire post that is pretty accurate.
Predator sounds too cool, also. Makes me think of those hunter aliens from the scifi franchise of the same name.
Why not dickbags?
I was thinking the parasite class.
Freeloader class
The handouts class.
Too many carnists with a boner for predators
I don’t call them the elite… I will continue to not call them elite if that helps.
Parasite is much more applicable.
The parasites manipulate the predators to handle the suckers they trap with news nooses.
Rich nutjobs are eccentric
I always thought the elite were the highly educated, not the rich.
You misspelled narcissist.
Very few highly educated folks are poor, in fact, majority come from money.
“More than three-quarters of medical students came from families in the top two quintiles of family income”
https://www.aamc.org/media/9596/download
I am from a family in the 3rd quartile, nobody ever said I could grow up to be a Doctor. Most told me to ‘go to state school and get a shitty office job and be happy with it’. In my college all the kids studying to be med students were driving used BMWs/Mercedes and paying several grand extra a year for parking, new dorms, and the like.
Maybe it’s more of a US issue.
A better example is any flavor of engineer. Usually well educated, earn well over median wage, yet are not wealthy. Are they elite?
Or what about teachers. Very well educated, are building our future, yet don’t get paid nearly enough. Elite? Or non-lite?
depends on how wealthy their parents were.
