Cartier-Chef mit 7,5 Milliarden US-Dollar Vermögen sagt, die Aussicht auf einen Aufstand der Armen „halte ihn nachts wach“
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/cartier-boss-with-7-5bn-fortune-says-prospect-poor-rising-up-keeps-him-awake-at-night-10307485.html
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This news highlights the concerns voiced by Johann Rupert, billionaire chairman of Richemont, about the potential societal upheaval driven by rising economic inequality and automation-induced unemployment. His remarks offer a stark acknowledgment from within the ultra-wealthy class of the risks posed by wealth concentration and structural shifts in labor markets.
How might advancing automation, combined with extreme wealth disparities, reshape society in the next decades? Could his fears of middle-class decline and „social warfare“ materialize into widespread systemic disruptions? What strategies could prevent such outcomes—policy reforms, technological safeguards, or societal restructuring?
Hey how about lower prices and raising wages? You guys never tried that one.
There has never been a problem that he is in a better position to fix.
Good. Let them hide, and cower, in their ivory tower prisons where they belong. The streets, and society at large, belong to us.
Well French people doesn’t really have a good track record in that regard…..
It’s almost as if….. quite possibly…. they anticipate the pendulum of socioeconomic disparity is going to swing against them…..at some point… soon.
Save a cow. Eat the rich.
if only there were something billionaires could do to alleviate poverty…
It keeps him up at night so hard that he’ll do absolutely nothing about it.
„Johann Rupert told the conference to bear in mind that when the poor rise up, the middle classes won’t want to buy luxury goods for fear of exposing their wealth.“
Not even focusing on anything but the bottom line. These guys only see the world through figures and charts. Talk about losing the plot…
It’s ok we are busy fighting about trans and gay people
Dude, I could be in the minority here but I care a whole lot less that a luxury brand has rich CEOs than a health insurance company that literally makes it’s profits by denying people life saving drugs and procedures.
Good, as long as there is poverty in the world no billionaire should sleep soundly.
The middle class only ever existed as a buffer between the rich and the poor, it was never for the people in the middle class or the poor. The rich dangle the carrot of the middle class but never really want it, that’s why it keeps disappearing over and over again. If the middle class is serving their purpose, there is no reason to keep it.
So help the fucking poor dude!?!? Start paying Congress to change laws to help us with healthcare.
I always appreciated the way the French handled things
If I were a billionaire myself, I would be aggressively lobbying for policies that bolster the social safety net for exactly this reason. I would be pushing hard for increased taxes on the ultra-wealthy to fund social welfare programs, and I would also be pushing for universal healthcare, increases to the minimum wage, and strict rent control.
I would *absolutely* rather be worth $100M in a healthy and vibrant society where most people are generally happy than be wroth $100B in a crumbling society rife with poverty, crime, and misery.
But then, I guess, the fact that I don’t categorically value money above all else is probably the main reason why I’m not a billionaire in the first place
In reality we haven’t asked for much. A fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work, affordable housing and food, and decent medical care that doesn’t disappear the second that we need it. Most of us I would say wouldn’t even have an issue with his exorbitant lifestyle if the above was met.
The prospective demise of him and his ilk would be entirely their fault.