to think we could take'em?

[AnotherEffingOrangeRevel]

There has - rightly, I think - been a lot of talk recently about the fact that half of the world's wealth is owned by 62 mega-rich people. The thing is, there's more than 7 billion of the rest of us - I fancy our chances. What are we waiting for? I'll go for Buffet....

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/the-62-people-who-are-as-wealthy-as-the-poorest-half-of-humanity-combined-a6818766.html

[TreadSoftlyOnMyDreams]

Oh dear, the Queen didn't even make the list. What are the MN haters to do?

[stubbornstains]

So how much would the billionaires give me to fit on their side compared with how much I'd get if I fought on the rebels side and won?

^ This is your problem as well as apathy and indifference.

The Rebel Forces better have good X Wing Fighters

Except that they're not the rebels! They're the evil empire (obvs).

Yes, I agree that we could all live more frugally rude elf. A lot of what makes things so difficult for people in the UK, specifically, at the moment is high property prices, with a huge % of land/ housing being owned by the wealthiest, so if land was redistributed we could all have a bit to live on and pick our own mushrooms for vol au vents .

[gooseberryroolz]

Oh lovely, a good retro uprising. I'm in.

How will we liberate the money? Do we need a hacker on the team?

[redshoeblueshoe]

I can manage will that do ?

[Darvany]

I'm perfectly happy to organise a hacker.

[RudeElf]

How will we liberate the money? Do we need a hacker on the team?

I will bring DS(6) he liberates money from my purse all the time

[WorraLiberty]

The Rebel Forces better have good X Wing Fighters.

Right, but what about chicken wings?

There will be chicken wings, won't there?

[RebeccaEMumsbed]

i'm interested in learning a new skill to pull myself out of the daily grind. happy for it to be hacking. i'll just do a bit of googling and be right back and on board

there's a prawn ring in the freezer (donlt ask) i'll bring that a long too

[RedToothBrush]

No, I was saying you rebels better have good x wings against the evil empire...

Also, as much as land retribution and ideological emancipation seems a nice idea, I'm not terribly convinced that its practical application really will deliver on its promise. (Reference: Entire History of Humanity).

You lot go ahead with out me bringing about utopia, without a proper restricting plan for the power vacuum after.

I'm kind of more into slow gradual change rather than RRRRAARRRR REVOLUTION!

[stickygotstuck]

Musch as I'd like to be a part of this lively soirée, I'm with toothbrush. Her reference source is, sadly, incontestable.

[BusyCee]

Tsk. 'Spose you're right. I'll put my pitch fork back in the shed.

But is the buffet still on?

[gooseberryroolz]

I've already started making liberty caps and cockades, so too late to stop now. They can't buy us off until we turn up and mill about with our nibbles looking faintly menacing, anyway.

[candykane25]

I can do an interpretative dance if our aims and objectives. I'm in.

[LadyLuck81]

If I take down one of these folk what percentage of the wealth do I get to keep for myself?

Can I charge a fee based on percentage?

You want me on your team. I'm scrappy, feisty, a firecracker, and other patronising names to describe women who can get on and do stuff for themselves.

[AnotherEffingOrangeRevel]

So how much would the billionaires give me to fit on their side compared with how much I'd get if I fought on the rebels side and won?

^ This is your problem as well as apathy and indifference.

You're absolutely right. They've got it sewn up. We'll need a hell of a hacker to get through the incredible online resources they've got on their side.
And we're going to have to go to the dark web even to arrange where to meet. And use the encryption which the rich and powerful are currently attempting to ban...

Still, salt'n'vinegar Hula Hoop (and a chicken wing for Worra), anyone?

[InsufficientlyCaffeinated]

I'm in! I'm getting my pitchfork from B&M, is that frugal enough?

[HeartsTrumpDiamonds]

I would really love to know the answer to that. How much would every person in the world have if all the (privately held, I guess) wealth was divided up evenly?

[AnotherEffingOrangeRevel]

I think it's hard to calculate in real world terms, Hearts. I think it's true that your average middle class Brit would have a lower yearly income. But the state of the world might be so much better that people's quality of life and wellbeing may be much higher. Globally, the majority of people would generally be a hell of a lot better off.

[RebeccaEMumsbed]

LadyLuck are you plucky? we're going to need pluck

[PosieReturningParker]

I remember sitting at school whilst learning about the Second World War and thinking how on earth it could happen....

Fast forward to this Tory government, globalised greed and a complicit media...

I no longer wonder.

[PosieReturningParker]

The westerners would be better off too..... The worlds top wealth holders have so much all us poor, without off shore accounts, would be better off.

[toffeeboffin]

Buffet is mine. Where's my pitchfork?

[cardibach]

My colleague and I are in. We are English teachers and so constitutionally designed for rebellion. Also we have a fridge full of sweets from a lesson experiment that went wrong. Where do we meet? We have the afternoon off (until 3.30).

[Littleelffriend]

I don't like pastry, will it be acceptable to pick the sausage out of the sausage roll and the mushroom filling out of the vol au vent? Some people are weird about pastry..................

[aliasjoey]

Love the fact that the Revolution lasted all of 2 hours before Redtoothbrush pointed out the drawbacks, and people just asked if there would still be a buffet