"85% of the world's wealth is controlled by 1% of the population. What do you think is gonna happen when those people wake up and realize you've got all their money? [...] You think they're gonna ask questions when they come with their pitchforks and their torches? You live in a mansion. You drive a $90,000 car. [...] There's an accounting coming, Mr. Stussy, and you know I'm right. Mongol hordes descending. [...] They're coming. Pitchfork peasants with murder in their eyes."
— V.M. Varga, Fargo
"It's okay to have steak when there's a chicken in every pot. But if you're eating steak and the majority of people have nothing, it doesn't take long for you to look like a chicken."
— Mr. Ishiguro, Freefall
As discussed
You mustn't trust that upper crust
Toss their asses on the menu
'Cause it's time to EAT
You mustn't trust that upper crust
Toss their asses on the menu
'Cause it's time to EAT
— "Snitch on the Rich", Puppet History, "Policarpa: The Revolutionary Teen Spy"
"Cry wolf when the shepherd finds a way to strike gold
'Cause the stocks gon' crash and the dollar gon' fold
You don't know that the poor eat the rich when there's no profit?
They gave you the floor but you brought up the wrong topic"
'Cause the stocks gon' crash and the dollar gon' fold
You don't know that the poor eat the rich when there's no profit?
They gave you the floor but you brought up the wrong topic"
— Dom McLennon, "CASH", Brockhampton
"Just another rich uncle, gonna eat the rich uncle!"
— Donald Duck, DuckTales (2017), "The First Adventure!"
"Rich humans are basically like veal: conceptually repulsive, but so buttery on my tongue!"
— Nadja the vampire, What We Do in the Shadows (2019)
