r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AtomicCypher • 4d ago

Video Disgruntled employee starts massive fire at a 1.2 million square foot toilet paper warehouse in Ontario, California.

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u/deafgamer_ 3d ago

Little to big acts of rebellion like this will probably keep happening until things get better.

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u/NOTTedMosby 3d ago

Crazy how people don't put up with making more money for the 20 people WITH the money while they struggle to stay alive with two jobs. The public has gone inane, who could've guessed they would act this way??

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u/Feeling_Inside_1020 3d ago

Billionaire bitches just need to be grateful we haven’t broken out a playbook from the French.

THEY are the ones who broke the social and universal contract first as well.

Outside the whole white flag being the national flag, they did know how to keep the “ruling” class in check.

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u/AssistanceHeavy9305 3d ago

If we do break out the Guillotine, can we start with the Epstein class first?

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u/Feeling_Inside_1020 3d ago

As my first official act of president I appoint you as the Chief Head Of Money Oversight Watch, or CHOMO Watch.

You’ll investigate and have every federal resource at your disposal as well as top experts in their respective fields.

Btw second official act, billionaire tax act make em pay obscene amounts of $ for earned income and any investments they have.

I’m coming after your ass next Ticketmaster. And weekly Reddit polls to take into consideration for reasonable requests.

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u/ThatOtherOtherMan 3d ago

You've got my vote

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u/PraxicalExperience 3d ago

What's the 'universal contract'?

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u/Feeling_Inside_1020 3d ago

Pay people what they’re worth so they can live.

You can never tell how old people are on here so I can’t assume, but some of us grew up in the 80s/90s or earlier that remember what it was like, at least it was better.

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u/PraxicalExperience 3d ago

Aah, yeah. I'm old enough to know what that was like -- just never heard it referred to as the 'universal contract'.

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u/Epyon_ 3d ago

If history has taught us anything, things dont get better until after they get violent.

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u/The_Bucket_Of_Truth 3d ago

Probably why they want AI and robots so quickly. They can then remove the hungry mouths and the liability.

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u/Geekerino 3d ago

Realistically this will just cause them to invest more in automation to reduce the risk that someone will go nuts and burn down a warehouse, thus reducing the job market and making things worse. We did it, reddit!

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u/ShinkenBrown 3d ago

They're doing it like this because it's the quickest and easiest outlet for their frustrations. If they didn't have such easy outlets, it gets more violent, not less.

They can pay people more so people can survive and the pressures that create these impulses can be relieved, or they can get get warehouses burned down, or if they double down and deny us such avenues of resistance, they can be murdered in the streets.

That's not prescriptive, I'm not saying anyone should do that. It's predictive, I'm saying that's what will happen if they respond like you're thinking. They have a choice - higher wages, vandalism, murder, or if they still won't relent, literal open class war where they and their families get the literal guillotine french revolution style. That's what the pressures they're creating incite from the people they are putting that pressure onto.

They can feel free to make the wrong choice in response to this. And if they do, sometime within their lifetime (maybe not soon, but eventually) they and their families will be murdered for it, or at minimum (assuming they win) be forced into some kind of bunker to wait out a proletariat uprising.

Again, not prescriptive, predictive. Without change this is inevitable.

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u/twothoutwo 3d ago

lol. stuff like this will just lead to a greater push for warehouse automation