"The poor rising up 'keeps him awake at night' - Cartier owner worth $7.5bn

[dime bag]

The multi-billionaire owner of luxury jewellery company Cartier has revealed his greatest fear – robots replacing workers and the poor rising up to bring down the rich.

Speaking at the Financial Times Business of Luxury Summit in Monaco (obviously), the fashion tycoon told his fellow elite that he can’t sleep at the thought of the social upheaval he thinks is imminent.

According to Bloomberg, 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.

He said he had been reading about changes in labour technology, as well as recent Oxfam figures suggesting the top 1 per cent of the global population now owns more wealth than the other 99 per cent.

“How is society going to cope with structural unemployment and the envy, hatred and the social warfare?” he said. “We are destroying the middle classes at this stage and it will affect us. It’s unfair. So that’s what keeps me awake at night.


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...ing-up-keeps-him-awake-at-night-10307485.html

 

[Race Harley]

Sounds like the guilty conscious of a man who step on a lot of people on the way up the ladder.

 

[kidmegaii]

Shot out to those kids in B-more that got these rich crackers thinking twice.

 

[peterlongshort]

When has this ever happened in modern history? Even during the great depression, civil unrest was not a threat to the privileged class.

 

[World B Free]

When has this ever happened in modern history? Even during the great depression, civil unrest was not a threat to the privileged class.

November 7, 1917 (on the Gregorian calendar – on the Julian Calendar, which Russia was still using at the time, that date was October 25, 1917, hence why it’s the October Revolution) = the day the Bolsheviks seized power of Petrograd/the Bolshevik Revolution/the October Revolution/the November Revolution – whatever you wanna call it…5 years until the centennial


and



the Cuban Revolution

 

[Plim-Don]

Sounds like the guilty conscious of a man who step on a lot of people on the way up the ladder.

Shot out to those kids in B-more that got these rich crackers thinking twice.

When has this ever happened in modern history? Even during the great depression, civil unrest was not a threat to the privileged class.

Yo the guy has got a valid point rich or not those self check out registers at the super market are test's to see just how many people will use them .. I refuse to use them cause i know what it leading to ..even these so called smart phones are test's everybody that use's a smart phone can add beta tester to there resumes cause that's what your doing when your useing em beta testing there technology.. and don't even know it ...

 

[keone]

Yo the guy has got a valid point rich or not those self check out registers at the super market are test's to see just how many people will use them .. I refuse to use them cause i know what it leading to ..even these so called smart phones are test's everybody that use's a smart phone can add beta tester to there resumes cause that's what your doing when your useing em beta testing there technology.. and don't even know it ...

bro i be warning people about this but then they say im a sci fi nut. people see cars driving themselves everybody is like wow. im like what about the bus driver, trains etc etc. cause those will be driving themselves too. or even go as far as bulldozers etc etc. shit i have seen how 200 people lost their job because of technology at their company.

this shit will effect cacs too not only black people and thats what dude is affraid of. cause its not going to be just black people rioting.

 

[Drayonis]

Yo the guy has got a valid point rich or not those self check out registers at the super market are test's to see just how many people will use them .. I refuse to use them cause i know what it leading to ..even these so called smart phones are test's everybody that use's a smart phone can add beta tester to there resumes cause that's what your doing when your useing em beta testing there technology.. and don't even know it ...

The same way you turn off your lights to lower your light bills or cook your own dinner vs. Going out - it's human nature to save money so you'll have more. Business operates much like you do. People are always going to find a way to cut costs and increase profit. If you owned a business you'd do the same thing
There's no conspiracy other than money and wanting more of it.

 

[max-dawg]

When has this ever happened in modern history? Even during the great depression, civil unrest was not a threat to the privileged class.

during the great depression, the poor didn't have smartphones that could google and look-up ownership and stock holders of fortune 500 companies... and the ability to be informed EXACTLY when they make decisions to move their jobs to cheap, 3rd world labor markets.

are you listening GM... ford... chrysler?

in europe... are you listening jaguar, mercedes, etc.?

sooner or later, the rich hoarding every fucking penny possible will result in blood in the streets.

 

[kinglickk]

rich but not smart
If you get rid of your riches, these thoughts will go away AND you'll sleep at night.

 

[peterlongshort]

November 7, 1917 (on the Gregorian calendar – on the Julian Calendar, which Russia was still using at the time, that date was October 25, 1917, hence why it’s the October Revolution) = the day the Bolsheviks seized power of Petrograd/the Bolshevik Revolution/the October Revolution/the November Revolution – whatever you wanna call it…5 years until the centennial


and



the Cuban Revolution

hmmm. I'll look into it.

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

The machines will turn on their master faster than the humans. Most humans are weird. folks say money is the root of evil, and yet folks chase if everyday. I hate poor people and their quirks.

 

[kidmegaii]

The machines will turn on their master faster than the humans. Most humans are weird. folks say money is the root of evil, and yet folks chase if everyday. I hate poor people and their quirks.

Some money is the root of evil. That why I consider donations from wealthy individuals a version of confession.

 

[illdog]

Or why is the avg. white person scared shit-less of you...?

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[code_pirahna]

When has this ever happened in modern history? Even during the great depression, civil unrest was not a threat to the privileged class.

maybe not modern history but in France.....oh heads rolled

 

[Sampson]

The machines will turn on their master faster than the humans. Most humans are weird. folks say money is the root of evil, and yet folks chase if everyday. I hate poor people and their quirks.

Some money is the root of evil. That why I consider donations from wealthy individuals a version of confession.

I don't understand how people keep on misquoting this saying. The LOVE of money Is the root of all evil. Money has no feelings, emotions nor life. It is not capable of conjuring any human emotions. Man is the reason for greed, corruption and evil. Take money out of the equation and those elements will still remain.

 

[Plim-Don]

bro i be warning people about this but then they say im a sci fi nut. people see cars driving themselves everybody is like wow. im like what about the bus driver, trains etc etc. cause those will be driving themselves too. or even go as far as bulldozers etc etc. shit i have seen how 200 people lost their job because of technology at their company.

this shit will effect cacs too not only black people and thats what dude is affraid of. cause its not going to be just black people rioting.

People wont listen till it happens then they'll try to tell you like you never said nothing about it years before

The same way you turn off your lights to lower your light bills or cook your own dinner vs. Going out - it's human nature to save money so you'll have more. Business operates much like you do. People are always going to find a way to cut costs and increase profit. If you owned a business you'd do the same thing
There's no conspiracy other than money and wanting more of it.

This is true bro .but it's not worth it

 

[Sampson]

maybe not modern history but in France.....oh heads rolled

Yup, The French Revolution is what real change is. Most of the world is too pussy to make a real bloody sacrifice against the 1% they claim to hate so much.

 

[melonpecan]

maybe not modern history but in France.....oh heads rolled

 

[The Ghost of Gulag River]

The illusion of "middle class" has always been a buffer to the rich. That illusion has been revealed to be a lie. Should have always been called the working poor.

 

[keone]

People wont listen till it happens then they'll try to tell you like you never said nothing about it years before

exactly

This is true bro .but it's not worth it

yep people are alwayss going to go for whats cheap. but what good will it do if you cant sell the products? because nobody has a job.

 

[gene cisco]

When has this ever happened in modern history? Even during the great depression, civil unrest was not a threat to the privileged class.

Shit ain't going to happen any time soon -- at least not in the U.S. We have fat poor people. Think about that shit for a minute. Where poverty really exists, people look like skin and bones. There are one billion people who don't even have clean water.

Americans? They have clean water coming out of faucets and bitch about not having pop. Folks are bluffing big time. Corporations will never cut social programs because they make money off those tax dollars, so the cycle will just continue.

Shit, up here cats ain't robbing people to eat. It's usually drug related or so people can have money to piss away on shit to be fly. America is a looooooooong way away from people rising up.

Now when you have a vast majority who engage in family planning and still live in the gutter, that's when shit will get ugly. But we are at least 50 years away from shit like that.

 

[Mrfreddygoodbud]

rich but not smart
If you get rid of your riches, these thoughts will go away AND you'll sleep at night.

I totally disagree,


its absolutely ingenious he is sending


a warning signal to his ilk by makin it seem

like a personal issue.....

He is pretty much saying, if we want any chance of

changing our "inevitable" fate we better act now....


or live with the consenquences...

 

[Mrfreddygoodbud]

Shit ain't going to happen any time soon -- at least not in the U.S. We have fat poor people. Think about that shit for a minute. Where poverty really exists, people look like skin and bones. There are one billion people who don't even have clean water.

Americans? They have clean water coming out of faucets and bitch about not having pop. Folks are bluffing big time. Corporations will never cut social programs because they make money off those tax dollars, so the cycle will just continue.

Shit, up here cats ain't robbing people to eat. It's usually drug related or so people can have money to piss away on shit to be fly. America is a looooooooong way away from people rising up.

Now when you have a vast majority who engage in family planning and still live in the gutter, that's when shit will get ugly. But we are at least 50 years away from shit like that.

you missing the point, there is a concentrated effort to keep people stupid,

ignorant of their immune system and how to maintain it, obese, and divided amongst the poor..



what is the parasitic elites excuse for being fat and medically obese...and having

weak immune systems... inbreeding is a helluva drug

I know for a fact a large percentage of the rockefeller klan, are fucked up

medically.....

just do the research.... its available...

 

[shaka38]

Shit ain't going to happen any time soon -- at least not in the U.S. We have fat poor people. Think about that shit for a minute. Where poverty really exists, people look like skin and bones. There are one billion people who don't even have clean water.

Americans? They have clean water coming out of faucets and bitch about not having pop. Folks are bluffing big time. Corporations will never cut social programs because they make money off those tax dollars, so the cycle will just continue.

Shit, up here cats ain't robbing people to eat. It's usually drug related or so people can have money to piss away on shit to be fly. America is a looooooooong way away from people rising up.

Now when you have a vast majority who engage in family planning and still live in the gutter, that's when shit will get ugly. But we are at least 50 years away from shit like that.

Right wingers use that type of argument. They talk about how people at or below the poverty line have 2 televisions, and smart phones, and a car.

Look at this as tiers, like most people describe them.

Don't compare the impoverished people in a "1st World" country to the impoverished people in a "3rd World" country. Poor is poor no matter where you are. Poverty is relative to the region of the world in which you live, or country, if you will.

Perhaps oil rich, Middle-Eastern countries are the exception. They use a workforce of all Third Country Nationals in servitude. With all of their immense wealth, they give no fucks about the deplorable conditions of the foreigners that labor for them.

 

[shaka38]

I totally disagree,


its absolutely ingenious he is sending


a warning signal to his ilk by makin it seem

like a personal issue.....

He is pretty much saying, if we want any chance of

changing our "inevitable" fate we better act now....


or live with the consenquences...

That's my take on his commentary. He obviously sees some writing on the wall.

 

[gene cisco]

you missing the point, there is a concentrated effort to keep people stupid,

ignorant of their immune system and how to maintain it, obese, and divided amongst the poor..



what is the parasitic elites excuse for being fat and medically obese...and having

weak immune systems... inbreeding is a helluva drug

I know for a fact a large percentage of the rockefeller klan, are fucked up

medically.....

just do the research.... its available...

I don't disagree. But there are also a lot of dumb people in the general population. Think about just the law of averages. Sadly, the elites will have the intellect advantages in most cases. They may be thinking moves ahead of other people. Thus the common man always saying "I wish I'd have thought of that!!"

And being fat has been associated with eating good for ages. That's why being fat was a sign of wealth for a long ass time. People -- poor or rich -- usually don't have the ability to resist food.

You can have a fucked up immune system when you get to the top of the transplant list and can live to a ripe old age. Shit, they will be the first using cloning techniques to stay alive while 'regular' people are trying to eat organic berries to get a few more years.

Right wingers use that type of argument. They talk about how people at or below the poverty line have 2 televisions, and smart phones, and a car.

Look at this as tiers, like most people describe them.

Don't compare the impoverished people in a "1st World" country to the impoverished people in a "3rd World" country. Poor is poor no matter where you are. Poverty is relative to the region of the world in which you live, or country, if you will.

Perhaps oil rich, Middle-Eastern countries are the exception. They use a workforce of all Third Country Nationals in servitude. With all of their immense wealth, they give no fucks about the deplorable conditions of the foreigners that labor for them.

And? Everything doesn't have to be take up the opposite position of right wingers. Even taking tiers into account, Americans have it good(despite the corporate greed). Folks going to get mad and then fire up the Xbox. Folks going to get mad then eat a pizza. "I don't have a benz, but I got pussy on its way over!" Folks going to get mad then fuck with social media or go to a porn site.

For able-bodied people who make sound choices, poverty is a joke in this country even if you take the tier argument into account. Able-bodies white folks running to disability in droves to chill on $1,300 a month tax free and stamps and ain't wilding out yet. They basically retired and give two fucks.

You say poverty is relative, but American poverty compared to third world poverty(real poverty) is like complaining about being on an NFL practice squad and collecting thousands a week when you could be waiting every morning in a temp agency to get called for a minimum wage job and if you don't get called you get 0.

Cats sitting in the big leagues and bitching and people the world over are like "What in theeeee fuck?" They looking at Americans who fuck this situation up like we look at pro athletes who can't put the weed down to stay on the team.

 

[keone]

bump

 

[JamesATL]

he watched this

 

[JamesATL]

but is this real?

 

[HAR125LEM]

What Rupert fails to mention is that he and people of his ilk are totally responsible for destroying the Middle Class.

Sounds like a guilty conscious to me.

 

[Star]

When has this ever happened in modern history? Even during the great depression, civil unrest was not a threat to the privileged class.

Let Them Eat Cake !

 

[Mrfreddygoodbud]

You know,

now that I really ponder

on it...


he is full of shit,

what he is really saying is,

he cant sleep at night, knowing

how much they suck the life force

out of impoverished people,

knowing someone, someway,


everybody gets what they deserve...


its the reason people like rockefeller

are so afraid to die....


he working on his seventh heart and shit...

he knows whats coming...

 

[Mrfreddygoodbud]

I don't disagree. But there are also a lot of dumb people in the general population. Think about just the law of averages. Sadly, the elites will have the intellect advantages in most cases. They may be thinking moves ahead of other people. Thus the common man always saying "I wish I'd have thought of that!!"

the fact that there are less than one percent of the people

owning every gotdam thing...

and nobody does anything about it is proof of that..

they actually believe in a system, set up by wealthy people,

for wealthy people, to keep wealthy people....wealthy...



but dont fool yourself, and lot of those wealthy people are

fuckin stupid...

they dont realize a lot of that shit they are emulating from the past..


didnt work...


like all that gotdam inbreeding they are doing... that so called royal

family, they look like a bunch of retarded uncoordinated savages..


you even seen rockefeller, he look like a gotdam hobbit...


they are going to inbreed themselves out of existence...



unless of course they steal our "black blood" and body parts...

but thats another discussion...

 

[gene cisco]

I don't disagree. But there are also a lot of dumb people in the general population. Think about just the law of averages. Sadly, the elites will have the intellect advantages in most cases. They may be thinking moves ahead of other people. Thus the common man always saying "I wish I'd have thought of that!!"

the fact that there are less than one percent of the people

owning every gotdam thing...

and nobody does anything about it is proof of that..

they actually believe in a system, set up by wealthy people,

for wealthy people, to keep wealthy people....wealthy...



but dont fool yourself, and lot of those wealthy people are

fuckin stupid...

they dont realize a lot of that shit they are emulating from the past..


didnt work...


like all that gotdam inbreeding they are doing... that so called royal

family, they look like a bunch of retarded uncoordinated savages..


you even seen rockefeller, he look like a gotdam hobbit...


they are going to inbreed themselves out of existence...



unless of course they steal our "black blood" and body parts...

but thats another discussion...

They make mistakes no doubt, but there ability to adapt is on some other level shit.

The elite aren't going to inbreed themselves to death. They are always on the look out for new talent. They are master recruiters, and often the temptations are just too much to resist. Look how Bill Clinton and Obama got added to the fold. Look at all the new tech people who are building a lot of wealth and turning into the very monsters they claim to hate.

One reason the west is so powerful is because their elite are master recruiters. They also know how to give the general population just enough to keep it satisfied. They are also smart enough to know democracy is a foolproof way of keep the elite in power because there are simply too many ignorant(many willfully so) AND stupid(people who can't be helped due to limited intelligence) people in the general pop for democracy to ever work to the advantage of the people on a large scale.