Whackjob customer story

[daredtowork]

20. The "patent" part is new, but

there are a lot of conspiracies which posit that the global super-rich will either feel the need to protect themselves or regard themselves as so uber-smart as to indulge in a little world-engineer and they are, as we speak, plotting ways to trim the excess population. AIDs is usually attributed to them. Any weird disease coming out of Africa, since Africa is regarded as some Continent-wide lab space. Vaccines are suspect since they can be used to spread toxins as well as protect people from disease. And there is Bill Gates with all his humanitarian causes: one of the super rich caught vaccine in hand.

To underscore this, I heard the whole the theory "explained" to me by a local cafe owner - a very nice, respected local long-term business owner - just a few days ago. And I've heard it manyyyyyy times before, usually entangled in 9/11 conspiracy theories.

One thing the rich do not "get" about the poor: massive maltreatment and denigration gets reflected back as massive paranoia and fear of decimation. What seems like the random irrational opinion of a "whack job" might prove to be the wide spread irrational fear of thousands of people, triggering outbreaks of mob violence (where the people mainly end up hurting other poor people instead of that Super Elite Conspiracy that is supposedly causing all their suffering).