What is the endgame for the 1%?

[justiceischeap]

I mean, they have all the money, they have all the governmental power, they have our judicial system; what more could they want? Global power? Some of them already have that. Do they put us on an island and have us fight for food for their entertainment? I just can't see their end goal other than amassing more money and power.

[treestar]

1. Control.

Control, control, control.

Over others, mostly.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. They will eventually kill the geese that have been laying the golden eggs -

the rest of us. At some point almost everyone will be too poor to buy the stuff their corporations produce. Then what will they do?

[justiceischeap]

4. "Put us on an island to fight for food for their entertainment?"

I don't know if you've read The Hunger Games but that was the basic premise.

[GiveMeFreedom]

47. Loved that series! Good entertaining read, n/t

[ZombieHorde]

3. Greed does not have an end game. Just get as much as you can before you die. nt

[Jim Warren]

5. Why are you doing it?

Jake Gittes: Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What can you buy that you cant already afford?

Noah Cross: The future, Mr. Gitts, the future.....

[katsy]

6. My kids just read The Hunger Games.

The elite did just that with children as the players. Only one can win the food.

Controlling who lives and dies... what a high. When you have everything else, why not play god. :sarcasm:

[Overseas]

7. That is the question. How much is enough?

John Sidney McCain III had his nine houses (with his wife)-- was that enough?

The Kochs have billions and yet they want more.

[Jim Warren]

9. There is no enough

as long as there is more.

For some, winning is not enough, it's that everybody else must lose.

[teddy51]

8. I see them wanting to turn the US into a Mexico! n/t

[louis-t]

10. Throwing us to the lions is more like it.

Their hatred for humanity knows no bounds.

[Motown_Johnny]

11. They only have about half the money so far, and about the same for governmental poser

so they still have not reached their goals of having all the money and power

[Capitalocracy]

12. Become the .000000001%. nt

[leftstreet]

21. +1

No kidding

[bhikkhu]

13. Essentially, they need to control the media, and keep stealing elections

as controlling the media is no guarantee in the internet age.

[randome]

14. There is no end game.

Seriously, you think there is some kind of 'rich person' club that meets in secret to plan the future?

The rich are people, too. Some of them enjoy flaunting it and gaining more power because of their money. That doesn't mean they are all acting in concert toward some kind of 'end game'.

To solve a problem, you first have to identify it more precisely. Thinking of all rich people as being against the rest of us is not looking at the problem with your eyes fully open.

[RevStPatrick]

15. They want a planet with...

500 million to a billion humans on it.
They know damn well that there are too many people for our current systems to support, and that that is what is killing the environment.
Everything that is happening policy-wise is designed to help speed this up.
Soon, they will just come right out and do it.
This is the essence of Dominionism, and it will be corporate dominionism that wins in the end, if we allow it to...

[Lint Head]

16. Servitude of the 99%.

[n2doc]

17. Repeating the fall of the Roman Empire, but on a grander scale

More debauchery, this time with medical technology assistance!

More pitting different people/groups against each other in 'contests' (Like the poster above suggested with 'The Hunger Games'

Making the contrast even greater between the haves and have nots

modern legalized slavery

And ever increasing isolation between the 1% and the rest of us, with ecological destruction of our environment so that their lives can be made even easier.

[saras]

18. As long as there is a sentient being whose will and nature is not violated, it's not endgame yet

It's not just greed, a fair number of them are rather metaphysical in their goals. They don't want STUFF, they want SOCIETY to be organized a certain way. Owning all the stuff is just a shortcut to the power necessary to rearrange society.

[Initech]

19. The ultimate goal: Our misery is their entertainment.

[leveymg]

20. World War, genocide for fun and profit. See, "A Boy and His Dog."

"The Right Crowd, and No Crowding"

[Warpy]

22. They do have global power. Don't forget, they left national borders behind

some years ago and now have their tentacles everywhere.

That's why the Occupation movement is now a global one with occupations even in the Middle East, Africa and China!

However, the end game for them will be the collapse of the derivatives trading system, that system of gambling with phony money to make more phony money. When that goes, most of them will go since they've abandoned traditional investing as a way to grow wealth rapidly.

[RagAss]

23. Who gives a fuck...their time has come and gone....Our time is coming.!!!!!!

[sfpcjock]

24. My opinion is that the war on the people is run by a few

extremely idiological wing nuts like the Kochs, Dick Army and Karl Rove. Together they maybe represent the top .001% but they have influence and friends among the top few percent. Then it is out of their hands and into ALEC's and Madison Ave. slime machine to just spend the $100s of millions of dollars that get chipped in by a few people like the Koch's with basically infinite money. This is what happens when we cut the top tax rates to such and extent that their private riches begin to pile up--basically exponentially.

What do you think?

[lumberjack_jeff]

25. Fight among the other 1% ers to reach the 0.1% bracket: where the really cool kids are. n/t

[JVS]

26. The 1% always plays the same game, trying to stay in the 1%

Advance if possible

[lunatica]

27. This may sound silly but now they're competing with each other

competing to see who gets to be the richest person in the world. Literally. Because they think that if you're the richest then you're the most powerful and you win.

They're backstabbing each other in that mad scramble.

[Ship of Fools]

33. I think you're dead on, here; it's not enough to be a billionaire, you must

be a MULTI-billionaire.

[Locrian]

28. what is the end game for cancer? - nt

[Duer 157099]

30. +1 Cancer has no end game, just continual growth

at the expense of the host, eventually.

[moondust]

29. South America?

GWB bought land in Paraguay, whatever that means...

[CanonRay]

31. Serfdom.

Think France about 1358 and that will give you some idea.

[Ship of Fools]

32. Easy!!! They're bored. So much money they don't know what to do with it,

so it's "He/she who dies with the most toys wins."

[Sheepshank]

34. they don't have ALL the money or ALL the power.

the 99%'ers are about the become pawns for an internal struggle of the 1%'ers for the end game. One super duper, really un-equivocated ruler of everything, still to be announced.

[backscatter712]

35. If they keep this up, they'll find themselves at the end of their rope...

[Gregorian]

36. See Wizard of Oz.

We have the power. They have illusion and fear.

[truedelphi]

37. Ever read Henry Kissinger's statement that the world's

Population had to be reduced down to the 600,000 to 600 million numbers?

And don't ever forget it - Kissinger approved of Obama winning the Presidency and he was immediately put into place as an adviser to the President.

FEMA is using the DHS monies to build huge centers, one inside each region in the nation, that are basically acres upon acres of empty land, and serious looking buildings holding huge numbers of prison cells.

Why?

[tinrobot]

38. They want more.

If there's more to be had, they want it.

They're hoarders, plain and simple. They're actually a lot worse than the people on the show "Hoarders" because their brand of hoarding hurts a lot more people.

(edit: spelling)

[L. Coyote]

39. Retire to someplace that won't tax them, of course.

It isn't like they need a job in America :rofl:

[Cal Carpenter]

40. The question is what is the end game of capitalism

It doesn't matter who, precisely, is in the 1%.

The reality of capitalism is that it always moves in this direction - of more concentrated wealth and political influence. Efforts of regulation are temporary and tenuous at best. Capitalism will *always* move in this direction. The theory of capitalism doesn't add up any other way, and history shows this to be the truth.

[jimlup]

41. Their end game has been and always will be violence

And make no mistake about that. They will attempt to protect what they perceive to be "their property" by violence and it may well become extreme.

[CrispyQ]

43. I don't know if it's their end game, but

I know they have absolutely no qualms about using it. And yes, it will be extreme, if it has to be. But first they will let us sort out the weak among us, ourselves, for their entertainment. The Running Man - I see a future very much like that.

Unbelievable. Stephen King, of all people, nailed it.

The universe is weird. ;)

[swilton]

42. They are insecure with all of the thin air at the top

Their endgame is global neo-feudalism...See Brzeainski's THE GRAND CHESSBOARD.....the end of states as we know them - corporate governance.

[sarcasmo]

44. Only land owners being able to vote and only children of the wealthy going to school.

The rest of us will be proles, peasants, or servants, choose any word you like.

[Ikonoklast]

45. Soylent Green.

We get to eat each other, and pay for the right to do so.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

46. I will simply have my chauffeur avoid the rabble-infested areas

when I am a 1%er.

I'm sure the true 1%ers don't consider themselves 1%ers, and certainly don't see the 99%. If there is rabble in the park, they know that winter will drive them indoors soon.

:hi:

As was stated in "history of the world",
"the peasants are revolting"

[applegrove]

48. The next 50 years will see a uber rich class created in the world. After that, there

will not be much opportunity for upward mobility as the vast majority of the world will have been fully exploited. So this uber rich class will be almost permanent (along with their uber corporations). It is now or never for them.