It strikes me that the wealthy want to kill off the majority of the poor and middleclass

[Stargazer99]

because due to AI they will be able to use human looking robots to do your work and they don't need you anymore.
Capitalism has no morals only worship of wealth and you are not part of the club as comedian Carlson said you are not part of the club (the wealthy) If people die from lack of medical care it looks better than just going and killing the "throw away people". I wonder when the average citizen would 2 & 2 together. Anyhow that is my opinion and what I see,

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. AI is not "human looking robots"

Without consumers, the wealthy will eventually cease to be wealthy.

[CivicGrief]

2. What a relief!

[Stargazer99]

14. Check the Japanese sites there are human female robots that can function like women

[Fiendish Thingy]

17. Can they clean houses or pick strawberries?

Can they have babies?

Who makes the robots? Other robots?

Billionaires wealth would soon evaporate if they could only buy and sell to each other, which is the premise of the OP- that they want to kill the rest of us off.

Who would build and run their yachts?

[Justice matters.]

18. There are billions of human beings living outside the US of A.

They will program their robots to replace the poor, exploited, and dying workers inside the US of A and they will sell (and buy) food (for themselves) with the increased profits from their robots-made exports?

Could be their end justifying their ugly means?

[Fiendish Thingy]

26. And we will just sit there and accept our fate? Nt

[CivicGrief]

24. No one accused them of having foresight.

[Fiendish Thingy]

27. They're not all as dumb as Trump and Musk. Nt

[durablend]

3. Didn't one of them say the rest of us are like NPC's to them?

[The Roux Comes First]

4. I am Skeptical of That as a Cold-blooded Reality. Perhaps Many of Them Will Be Able to Sustain

Their gift for ruthlessly looking the other way and ignoring the plight of the majority of Homo sapiens (not to mention the planet). But as long as there are nickels and dimes to be squeezed out of the lowly, the greedy uber-rich will want their pickable pockets available.

[Irish_Dem]

8. They don't want nickels and dimes.

We are useless to them.

They are going for the deep pockets and billion dollar assets.
Steal the entire US budget and all the world's resources.

Poor and middle class Americans are chump change.

[underpants]

5. Margaret Atwood (Handmaid's Tale) said the same from a post here a few days ago

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20704058

Paraphrased but close.

This country has decided that we don’t need poor people, it doesn’t need cheap labor, it doesn’t need this much cheap labor. So what are they going to do? They are cutting services. They are cutting social security and a lot of these people are going to die. That’s a very conscious decision.

[haele]

6. The Objectivists have called the working Class and Poor "Useless Eaters" for decades.

They used to call us Cannon Fodder.
But now that Wars and Manufacturing don't need so many strong bodies and weak minds, there doesn't need to be so many of the Working Class.
Ask a Billionaire or Tech Bro how many people and what types there needs to be in the world for the economy and civilization to continue, and they'll give you a very schizophrenic answer...."There's too many people, but not enough are being born...". Which means -
"More babies need to be born from more 'cultured' families (or, well off and/or white), and the poor people in primitive areas need to be reduced by at least half."

[Justice matters.]

19. Fascist miller advocates for a return of slavery from within the WH.

And he wants to murder all the alleged "radical-left lunatics" for a reason...

[crazylikafox]

7. I totally agree

Given they’re removing healthcare, life saving vaccines, and nutrition support, I don’t think you can draw any other conclusion.

They consider most of us “excess population “.

People think I’m crazy when I say this

[Botany]

25. The mega rich AI, Cryptocurrency, IT, oligarchs, & fossil fuel shits view us as useless eaters .... Trump is just

their tool to thin out the world’s population Trump and his henchmen are down with Trump and Musk’s Nazi natures too.

Hell Trump/Musk have killed at least 1 million in Africa from USAID cuts. God only
knows how many have died from his deportations, blowing up boats, and some of the girls from the sex trafficking operation of Musk/Putin/Trump/? might have fallen into that world and they just disappeared.

And they have sponsored and supported not doing anymore research on mRNA viruses and vaccines
which means no more work on the C-19 COVID virus which is still out there and still mutating into new
strains. It also means no more work in America on a universal C-19 vaccine that will be good against all
old and new strains of the C-19 virus. The work will still be done but not here.

But you know the billionaires will still get the top of the line care based on the best research including
mRNA research.

[Irish_Dem]

9. Destroy Social Security, Medicare, and all healthcare.

Cut all benefits and support systems.

Yes it is quite clear what the plan is.

[Silent Type]

10. Most wealthy need our lowly spending on food, utilities, housing, entertainment, healthcare, etc., to stay wealthy.

[AZJonnie]

11. Perhaps that is where cryptocurrency comes into the equation

Creating a different category of 'wealth', one that is not dependent on consumer spending, nor indeed, creating anything of actual value. In fact it is the opposite of that, burning through massive amounts of energy resources that could be instead used to sustain life.

[Avalon Sparks]

22. Actually

For US consumer household spending, the top 10% is accountable for around 50% of spending, the bottom 25% accounts for 12%. They will be fine without that.

[eShirl]

12. Parents never read to them "The Goose That Laid The Golden Egg."

[DFW]

13. Not anybody wealthy that I ever met.

If the wealthy didn't have the poor and the middle class to sell their stuff to, they'd get poor fast.

That's the problem with simplistic slogans. They offer simple solutions to issues that are never simple.

[Justice matters.]

21. The US population amounts to about what, 4 percent of the world's?

They want slavery back inside the US of A for a reason, and they'll use robots for the rest (the Fascist "tech bros" tell them).

[Avalon Sparks]

23. Hmmmm

For US consumer household spending, the top 10% is accountable for around 50% of spending, the bottom 25% accounts for 12%. They will be fine without that. Not to mention the rapidly shrinking middle class. Very few move up, many are moving downward.

[blm]

15. Some, the Accelerationist movement. Thiel, Musk, and others.

They don’t mind letting the white supremacy accelerationists do their thing……civil war.

[Ping Tung]

16. The comfort of the rich depends on an ample supply of the poor. Voltaire

[Gimpyknee]

20. So how will they make their money if they kill all the people they've been leaching off?

[durablend]

28. They have trillions of dollars

They can buy anyone or anything they want as it is.

They don't need you.

[Gimpyknee]

29. That's never stopped them. They always want more.