Parasite, not predator.
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More in line with bourgeoisie, the class term should be "parasitaire". Hell, it even has Paris in it. π€ͺ
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
C'est Bon!
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.
Yeah, predators earn their food, typically.
Wealthy people are almost always born with it... Just like many parasites.
I prefer the term βParasite Classβ.
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.
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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
The hoarding class
They do hoard wealth, but in another sense they're constantly making money moves: shifting their capital here and there, to extract more value from various local economies.
Hoarding would actually be an improvement. Like a dragon sitting on a pile of gold. But they're more like rampaging dragon that is never satisfied with its booty
They extract value from things until there is no more wealth, like mining an ore vein dry or bottling all the water from an aquafer. They hoard that value for themselves and leave nothing of value for others.
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Leeches, because that's what they are.
For me they are parasites, as they live off of the work of everyone else without contributing.
Those who subsist off the philanthropy of the workers who build their houses, produce and prepare their food, and subscribe to their pointless rents.
And these good Samaritan workers do this for a fraction of the value produced, all so that these poor wealthy elites don't have to engage in real, productive labour.
Have a heart. It's a certainty that they would starve without our charity!
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Who calls them elite? Only they themselves.
I was just going to say that!
The only time I hear it is in tv shows.
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Predator sounds too cool, also. Makes me think of those hunter aliens from the scifi franchise of the same name.
Why not dickbags?
Freeloader class
The handouts class.
I was thinking the parasite class.
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I always thought the elite were the highly educated, not the rich.
You misspelled narcissist.
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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.
Nobody calls them that except journalists who are on their payroll.
Or "journalists" trying to smear people they don't like. FOX likes to call anyone that's rich and left of "fascist" the "liberal elite."
Although, just a little asterisk and footnote moment, it is technically possible to gain some level of wealth, like really really upper middle class, through means that are not directly predatory. Incredibly unlikely, but possible.
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I don't think I've ever seen anyone making less than six figures actually call them that
Real-life vampires.
Wait, elite are wealthy? I thought I was a βCoastal Elite Libtardβ 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
The lucky. The fortunate.
It ainβt me..
I just call them leeches.
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I call them 'cannibals', like in The Internationale.
Psychoclass
Call them the eloi
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