An Offer They Can't Refuse
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Pity the kleptocrats; their position may be even worse than that of the French nobility during the reign of King Louis XVI. French peasants did not have an Internet and news media beaming nonstop images of the glitterati at their watering holes. A lesson from that time remains relevant: enrage enough people and all the king’s horses, guns, spying, and men cannot stop them. One day you’re partying at Versailles, the next day your head is in a basket. Today’s kleptocrats cling to their surveillance apparatuses, militaries, intelligence agencies, and police forces to keep the peasantry in line. None of it will not do them much good if the peasants revolt. No one has yet figured out how to stop a mob with nothing to lose, or prevent it from making the kleptocrats an offer they can’t refuse. That danger, not income inequality, poverty, global warming, or nuclear holocaust, is what keeps the kleptocracy awake at night.
Pity the kleptocrats; their position may be even worse than that of the French nobility during the reign of King Louis XVI. French peasants did not have an Internet and news media beaming nonstop images of the glitterati at their watering holes. A lesson from that time remains relevant: enrage enough people and all the king’s horses, guns, spying, and men cannot stop them. One day you’re partying at Versailles, the next day your head is in a basket. Today’s kleptocrats cling to their surveillance apparatuses, militaries, intelligence agencies, and police forces to keep the peasantry in line. None of it will not do them much good if the peasants revolt. No one has yet figured out how to stop a mob with nothing to lose, or prevent it from making the kleptocrats an offer they can’t refuse. That danger, not income inequality, poverty, global warming, or nuclear holocaust, is what keeps the kleptocracy awake at night.
