History Main / EatTheRich

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_submersible_implosion The implosion of]] the ''Titan'' submersible in 2023 drew very little public sympathy for its victims, which included the [=OceanGate=] CEO who provided the vessel, and four passengers who each paid $250,000 to get on board. Instead the event was widely mocked/criticized for rich people indulging in dangerous SnobbyHobbies, the ''Titan'''s lack of safety (citing CEO's disdain for safety regulations), the millions in public funds spent on recovering the vessel, and the [[WorstNewsJudgmentEver media attention it received]] compared to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Messenia_migrant_boat_disaster another sinking incident]] which happened just days before and resulted in 500+ people dead. Many news sources even described such reactions as "eat the rich".

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_submersible_implosion The implosion of]] the ''Titan'' submersible in 2023 drew very little public sympathy for its victims, which included the [=OceanGate=] CEO who provided the vessel, and four passengers who each paid $250,000 to get on board. Instead the event was widely mocked/criticized for rich people engaging in dangerous SnobbyHobbies, the ''Titan'''s lack of safety (attributed to the CEO's disdain for safety regulations), the millions in public funds spent on recovering the vessel, and the [[WorstNewsJudgmentEver media attention it received]] compared to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Messenia_migrant_boat_disaster another sinking incident]] which happened just days before and resulted in 500+ people dead. Many news sources even described such reactions as "eat the rich".

* A downplayed version of this happened with the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameStop_short_squeeze GameStop short squeeze]] in early 2021, as the store was floundering to the point that professional stock traders decided to short[[labelnote:What is shorting?]]The investor "borrows" the stock from someone else to return at a later date, so they sell the borrowed stocks immediately, then buy them back (ideally at a lower price) later for return, typically at a profit[[/labelnote]] the company's stock. Website/{{Reddit}} subforum "[=r/wallstreetbets=]" caught wind of this, and bought up the stock partially because they felt it was undervalued to start with, and partially as a means to deliver payback to the wealthy investors who'd played a large role in The Great Recession of 2007-2008. This ended up causing ''billions'' of dollars in losses to certain hedge funds, and was celebrated online as a modern-day redistribution of wealth from insanely rich to the normal people.
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_submersible_implosion The implosion of]] the ''Titan'' submersible in 2023 drew very little public sympathy for its victims, which included the CEO who provided the vessel, and four passengers who each paid $250,000. Instead the event was widely mocked/criticized for rich people engaging in dangerous SnobbyHobbies, the ''Titan'''s lack of safety (attributed to the CEO's disdain for safety regulations), the millions in public funds spent on recovering the vessel, and the media attention it received compared to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Messenia_migrant_boat_disaster another sinking incident]] which happened just days before and resulted in 500+ people dead. Many news sources even described such reactions as "eat the rich".

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_submersible_implosion The implosion of]] the ''Titan'' submersible in 2023 drew very little public sympathy for its wealthy passengers (who each paid $250,000 to get on board). Instead the event was widely mocked/criticized for rich people engaging in SnobbyHobbies, the ''Titan'''s lack of safety (attributed to cost-cutting measures), the public funds spent on recovering the vessel, and the media attention it received compared to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Messenia_migrant_boat_disaster another sinking incident]] which happened just days before and resulted in 500+ people died. Many news sources even described such reactions as "eat the rich".

* A downplayed version of this happened with the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameStop_short_squeeze GameStop short squeeze]] in early 2021, as the store was floundering to the point that professional stock traders decided to short[[labelnote:What is shorting?]]The investor "borrows" the stock from someone else to return at a later date, so they sell the borrowed stocks immediately, then buy them back (ideally at a lower price) later for return, typically at a profit[[/labelnote]] the company's stock. Website/{{Reddit}} subforum "[=r/wallstreetbets=]" caught wind of this, and bought up the stock partially because they felt it was undervalued to start with, and partially as a means to deliver payback to the wealthy investors who'd played a large role in The Great Recession of 2007-2008.

Contrast KillThePoor and NoPoverty. HighClassCannibal is the [[LiteralMetaphor literal]] inverse.

** Starting on Week 3, AVAC encourages everyone to report anyone they suspect to have committed Avarice Crimes with the press of a button, and they expect to catch 90 Avarice Criminals by the end of each week. Every day, they publicly update the bulletin boards with the number of criminals reported, the place with the highest crime rate, and the top reporter of Ajik City. You are also encouraged to participate in this by reporting any of your customers who are tagged with a Pre-Avarice Crime Badge so they can be arrested immediately, but this risks destroying your store's reputation because it gets labeled as a place with a high crime rate.
** If you haven't donated to the Fixerain Project for the week, an AVAC officer will constantly urge you to do so, telling you that you have more than enough money for it. Even if you know that the project is bad for the city since it involves forcing the emotion-suppressing drug on everyone with artificial rain, the officer shames you by telling you the exact amount of money you have since donations are only 100V each.
** The economic inequality between the Junuk Side and Singsing Side of the city can be seen as you go to work. You move from the slums of Junuk to the Elevator Bridge that lifts you to Singsing, where all the high-end businesses, including Darcy's secondhand store, are. This is because all the money was pored into funding Singsing Side even after its status as an Avarice Permitted Zone, which was declared by [[spoiler:Darcy Jo]], was abolished. Starting at the end of Week 5, the residents of Junuk protest against this inequality on the Elevator Bridge, and to further shame you for your riches, you can't skip this cutscene if you take the Elevator Bridge to work and back. [[spoiler:If you accumulate more than 50k [[FictionalCurrency Vana]], a cyberattack steals half of your money from you [[JustLikeRobinHood as part of a relief scheme for the impoverished]], although AVAC pays it back to you towards the end of the day.]]

** Avarice Criminals are defined by AVAC as people who are extremely greedy, regardless of their morals, and because the organization loosely interpret the law, they arrest anyone that they consider as Avarice Criminals [[AllCrimesAreEqual regardless of the crime's severity, their innocence, or their financial status.]] If they can't pay the fine, which increases with their Renunciation Rate the more they defy the law, they get Fixed by AVAC by being injected with an emotion-suppressing drug.

** If you haven't donated to the Fixerain Project for the week, AVAC officers will constantly urge you to do so, telling you that you have more than enough money for it. Even if you know that the project is bad for the city since it involves forcing the emotion-suppressing drug on everyone with artificial rain, the officers shame you by telling you the exact amount of money you have since donations are only 100V each.
** The economic inequality between the Junuk Side and Singsing Side of the city can be seen as you go to work. You move from the slums of Junuk to the Elevator Bridge that lifts you to Singsing, where all the high-end businesses, including Darcy's secondhand store, are. This is because all the money was pored into funding Singsing Side even after its status as an Avarice Permitted Zone, which was declared by [[spoiler:Darcy Jo]], was abolished. Starting at the end of Week 5, the residents of Junuk protest against this inequality on the Elevator Bridge, and to further shame you for your riches, you can't skip this cutscene if you take the Elevator Bridge to work and back.

** The economic inequality between the Junuk Side and Singsing Side of the city can be seen as you go to work. You move from the slums of Junuk to the Elevator Bridge that lifts you to Singsing, where all the high-end businesses, including Darcy's secondhand store, are. [[spoiler:Starting at the end of Week 5, the residents of Junuk protest against this inequality on the Elevator Bridge, and to further shame you for your riches, you can't skip this cutscene.]]

** Avarice Criminals are defined by AVAC as people who are extremely greedy, regardless of their morals, and because they loosely interpret the law, they arrest anyone that they consider as Avarice Criminals [[AllCrimesAreEqual regardless of the crime's severity, their innocence, or their financial status.]] If they can't pay the fine, which increases with their Renunciation Rate the more they defy the law, they get Fixed by AVAC by being injected with an emotion-suppressing drug.

** The economic inequality between the Junuk Side and Singsing Side of the city can be seen as you go to work. You move from the slums of Junuk to the Elevator Bridge that lifts you to Singsing, where all the high-end businesses, including Darcy's secondhand store, are. [[spoiler:Starting at the end of Week 5, the residents of Junuk protest against this inequality on the Elevator Bridge, and to further shame you for your riches, you can no longer skip this cutscene.]]

** The economic inequality between the Junuk Side and Singsing Side of the city can be seen as you go to work. You move from the slums of Junuk to a drawbridge that lifts you to Singsing, where all the high-end businesses, including Darcy's secondhand store, are. [[spoiler:Starting at the end of Week 5, the residents of Junuk protest against this inequality on the drawbridge, and to further shame you for your riches, you can no longer skip this cutscene.]]

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E7TheThingLayStill The Thing Lay Still]]", most of the guests that the vampire family invite to their Mardi Gras ball are the elite of New Orleans, and several human prey are selected for the after-party feast, where Lestat de Lioncourt, Louis de Pointe du Lac, and Claudia literally eat the rich.
-->'''Lestat''': Well, this idea of yours, what kind of a party did you imagine?\\