rinbaum on Nostr: The ruling class has no skin in a war, which is part of what makes them so desirable ...

The ruling class has no skin in a war, which is part of what makes them so desirable to same. Even a scary "world war", killing billions of proles, will leave the ruling class fairly unscathed. This isn't an idle prediction - it's coded into the system. They call it "continuity of government". If one remembers that the only war is government v the proles, what does "continuity of government" mean? They'll hide in their shelters if need be, but in all likelihood they won't be threatened at all as powerful weapons target "population centers" rather than the places where the ruling class are mostly likely to inhabit. Grand Cayman? Bora Bora? Aspen? Davos? They'll all be spared. And when it's "over" (the war v the proles will never truly be over), they'll return to their positions of power and demand that the proles rebuild themselves, taking loans from the ruling class of course, so that they can be ruled and maybe assaulted again if their numbers being rising.