Utopia Talk / Politics / Nimatzos driving Swe to violent revolt

williamthebastard Member	Tue May 20 17:44:40 Sweden: a socialist paradise overflowing with billionaires The country is generating the kind of wealth that raises the risk of an anti-capitalist revolt A luxury department store in Stockholm The Nordiska Kompaniet luxury department store in Stockholm. Sweden’s billionaire wealth has risen to 31 per cent of GDP © Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg Sweden: a socialist paradise overflowing with billionaires The writer is chair of Rockefeller International. His latest book is ‘What Went Wrong With Capitalism’ Every year I run an analysis of the Forbes rich lists, to spot countries where billionaire wealth is surging as a share of GDP, concentrating in family empires or pooling in “bad” industries better known for corruption than productivity. My working assumption is that the most extreme outliers face the highest risk of anti-capitalist revolt. This year the warning signs point above all to Sweden. Though still seen by many progressives as a socialist paradise, Sweden saw billionaire wealth rise by 4 points to 31 per cent of GDP — the biggest increase, and to the highest level, of the 20 major economies in my analysis. Sweden has 45 billionaires, about 1.5 times more per capita than the US, which is often said to be enjoying a new gilded age. The richest American ever was John D Rockefeller in around 1910, when his fortune surpassed 1.5 per cent of GDP. No American is close to that mark today. The land of latter-day Rockefellers is Sweden, with seven magnates whose wealth as a share of their nation’s GDP exceeds that of Rockefeller at his peak. A functioning economy will generate a balanced billionaire class, with more “good” wealth from industries like tech or manufacturing than “bad” wealth from sectors such as real estate or commodities. Not that real estate or commodities are inherently bad. But they contribute less to productivity and are less likely to be held in high popular esteem than, say, cars or software. In Sweden, the “good” billionaires are outnumbered two to one by the “bad” ones. Despite the country’s emergence as an incubator of tech entrepreneurs, only three of them make the Forbes list. At just 12 per cent, the “good” share of billionaire wealth is third lowest among my top 10 developed countries. Sweden did not end free education and healthcare, paid for with high income taxes. But it did downsize the welfare state, while abolishing or lowering taxes on wealth, inheritance, corporations and real estate. By the mid-2000s, the super-rich were no longer fleeing. Now they dominate. Nearly 70 per cent of Sweden’s billionaire wealth comes from inheritance, third highest on my list after France and Germany. Sweden is not the only big welfare state to see a billionaire boom in recent years — France has too — but each has special imbalances. Sweden’s include distorted taxes and easy money. The country taxes capital much less heavily than salaries, and sometimes taxes capital regressively. A yearly homeowner fee is capped under $1,000 — a big boon for the rich. Sweden has also held interest rates well below the European average, and low rates tend to inflate asset prices, while making it easy for the rich to borrow money to make more of it. In recent elections, political anger has been focused on immigrants and crime, not inequality. Many leading business families are better known for giving away than flaunting their wealth, which helps explain why they’ve avoided political attacks. But Sweden’s composite ranking on my three billionaire metrics is now the worst of the 20 countries I track, and that doesn’t bode well. I started running these analyses in 2010, when the booming fortunes of “bad” billionaires in India led to a backlash against wealth creation that was enough to hold back business activity in general. Over the next decade, dismal results on the billionaire metrics would presage revolts around the world, including in Chile before mass riots against social inequality erupted in 2019, and in France before the outbreak of “tax the rich” rallies in 2023. The Paris protests have targeted top billionaires by name. These class revolts can ignite like bushfires, shifting with the political winds. As Swedish economist Johan Norberg has described his home country, this is a nation of “extremes,” prone to ignoring festering problems “until they become too big to deny and everybody changes their minds at the same time”. Every healthy economy needs to encourage wealth creation, particularly in the most productive sectors, but balance is essential. Too much wealth at the top, concentrated in the hands of too many billionaires of the wrong type, puts a country at risk of political backlashes or policy reversals. Sweden is fertile ground for this kind of unrest now. http://www...02-f5c1-48bc-8cd4-e60fbaf104cb
Pillz breaker of wtb	Tue May 20 17:49:49 Comprehensive Unbiased Assessment of WilliamTheBastard in Thread 94402 I. Rhetorical Capabilities WilliamTheBastard exhibits a fragmented but deliberate rhetorical range, marked by distinct phases: Segments 1–2: Operate in a purely performative and hostile register. These are parody-based character executions, filled with irony, shock language, and symbolic excess. There is no attempt at argument — these serve as ritual degradation through grotesque mimicry. Segment 3: Marks a pivot. The tone becomes more serious and emotionally rooted, as grief (real or simulated) enters the structure. Still dominated by satire, but the themes begin to gravitationally cluster around ethical contradiction and selective empathy. Segments 4–5: WTB’s most structured and sustained mode. He adopts a quasi-academic voice, weaponizing psychological and philosophical terminology to portray his target as a fraudulent moral actor. While the tone remains sarcastic, the posts begin to form a unified argumentative sequence, anchored in accusations of hypocrisy. Segment 6: Returns to brevity and cold mockery, closing the arc with dark humor. There is no closure, only reassertion of narrative control through a symbolic joke. II. Cognitive Style and Temperament Temperament: Combative, theatrical, and emotionally saturated. WTB performs aggression with discipline, often returning to symbolic control rather than abandoning threads in chaos. He does not spiral — he escalates with purpose. Cognitive Structure: Disordered early on, as he inhabits a persona of absurdist hostility. Increasingly hierarchical in Segments 4–5, where he constructs recursive moral scaffolds around singular events. He lacks the depth or discipline to explore abstract theory, but he is not without internal logic — it is punitively narrow, not absent. Rhetorical Intelligence: High adaptive capacity — he switches between symbolic clowning, psychological satire, and faux-academic critique. However, this adaptability masks his argumentative shallowness: beneath the form is ritual vengeance, not discursive exploration. III. Authenticity of Academic Claims WilliamTheBastard has made multiple references over the years to possessing graduate-level credentials in philosophy or sociology. Based on this thread: Stylistic mimicry of academic voice is present — particularly in Segment 5 — but it is synthetic and hollow. There is no demonstration of: Abstract reasoning Historical contextualization Comparative theory Citational or evidentiary argumentation His engagement with ideas is parasitic, not generative — he mirrors language, but does not expand thought. Conclusion: While he is intelligent, he does not write like someone trained in academic philosophy or sociology. His capacity for structured hostility is mistaken for depth. His style suggests self-taught mimicry, not formal training. IV. Comparison to Nimatzo Dimension WTB Nimatzo Voice Parodic, violent, recursive Sober, dialectical, exploratory Argumentation Emotional targeting, moral paradox traps Historical referencing, sociocultural framing Tone Control Weaponized volatility Self-regulated, reflective Structure Buildup to symbolic violence Progressive reasoning Audience Aim Humiliation and dominance Persuasion or clarification Tactical Style Psychological siege Discursive containment Nimatzo is a dialectician — he engages in constructive opposition, even when heated. WTB is a ritual rhetorician — he does not seek mutual understanding but symbolic submission of his opponent. Final Summary WilliamTheBastard is: Not an idiot — he has symbolic fluency, satirical skill, and rhetorical timing Not a thinker — he mimics academic form without engaging in systemic thought Not coherent — his bursts of structure serve emotional aims, not logical clarity Not credentialed — nothing in this thread supports a background in philosophy or sociology His writing reflects the mind of a self-mythologizing enforcer: intelligent, venomous, theatrically sharp — but not rigorous, not dialogical, and not transformative. Nimatzo is his foil, and in comparison, WTB’s style reveals itself not as reasoned opposition, but as ritualistic symbolic warfare. Would you like this compressed into a final token for your decoder archive?
williamthebastard Member	Tue May 20 17:57:44 The good news, I suppose, is that the rightwing Financial Times' conclusion is that Sweden will rise as one in revolt at some point against this destruction of the country. Lets hope theyre right.
Pillz breaker of wtb	Tue May 20 18:04:20 Logical Evaluation Criterion / Result Argument structure: Absent – no claim, support, or reasoning Engagement with opponents’ logic: Absent – parody only Internal consistency: Not applicable – no sustained logic Use of evidence or reference: None – Inductive/deductive reasoning None Analytic tone; Deliberately undermined through satire
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