On social media, the upcoming generation is expressing more European solidarity than the continent has seen in decades.
A futuristic EU soldier stands guard, laser blaster at the ready. European fighter jets zoom through the sky over thumping Eurodance beats. An imaginary map shows a vastly enlarged EU, swallowing everything from Greenland to the Caucasus.
Welcome to the wild world of pro-Europe online propaganda, where the EU isn’t a fractious club of 27 countries but a juiced-up superpower on par with China or the United States, only wiser and more cultured.
This type of content, which re-imagines the EU as a pan-European empire, a European Federation or the United States of Europe — take your pick — has flooded social media platforms over the past two years, garnering billions of views collectively on X, TikTok and Instagram as the EU has reeled from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and a U.S.-EU trade deal decried as “humiliation” for Brussels in many parts of Europe.
Let’s just look at the piles of loot that the Dragons are sleeping on as bank accounts. One day, we will decide to access those bank accounts, and put them to good use.
I dunno if you’re referencing The Fable of the Dragon Tyrant or if you just happened to have a similar train of thought as it’s author.
The ultra wealthy don’t have billions just sitting in their bank accounts. That much wealth is largely tied up in the unrealized gains of non-liquid assets (stocks, real estate, etc.).
So it’s basically imaginary wealth, but unfortunately banks will loan them money based on the imaginary wealth.
Then they shouldn’t mind if we take their “non-existent” money, and redistribute it to their victims.
We wouldn’t even need to do that…
Money is an abstract concept that would fundamentally change in a post scarcity world.
If enough people said money doesn’t matter, the number tied to bank accounts stop mattering.
Musk could have 50 trillion dollars, but those dollars are only worth what we agree they are. We could just say their worth zero and Musk doesn’t have rights to anything he “owns”. It’s literally that easy.
The wealthy don’t abide by the social contract, yet you’re so stuck on it you don’t understand the only thing binding us to the parts the wealthy exploit, is ourselves and we can just fucking stop.