http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/apr/04/aki-kaurismaki-le-havre-interview

"The only way for mankind to get out of this misery is to kill the 1% who own everything. The 1% who have put us in the position where humanity has no value. The rich. And the politicians who are the puppies of the rich."

What you guys think about this drunken finnish artist? I think that violence is never justified no matter what is the case.

The puppies of the rich?

Does he mean lapdogs or puppets?

Maybe not all of them, but certainly a sizable proportion to would keep the rest of them on their toes.

There seriously has to be a redistribution of wealth or the resentment is just going to build, I can honestly see a point where there will be such a thing as a war with corporations.. the people taking up arms against them and their private armies. Give it another 50-100 years of unchecked greed and wholesale theft of world resources, if the people aren't already living under some kind of corporate ruled regime (openly ruled I mean, not as it is now where they just pull the strings) with their hands and souls so thoroughly bound as to make any possible action against them impossible.

Hey, I have an idea! Let's not kill people just because, ok?

Violence is the only way to provoke change of the scale needed to make a difference. Our politicians doesn't listen to us and would be powerless to act again corporate interests even if they weren't and corporate bodies don't do anything for the actual 'good' of mankind unless there is a strict profit motive underneath, and by then it's longer for the 'good' of anyone but themselves.

I see no other way if change is to come, and it must at some point.

That's preposterous! They have something we want, and they aren't sharing! Surely this is the only reasonable answer!


On a more serious note, something needs to be done about the wealth distribution, but this isn't it, obviously.

I like the idea of 99% of anything ever feeling like they have no power. If people really gave a shit the rich would have no power. They do because we like them to.

Seriously. You make $250,000 (in the U.S.) or more and they're going to execute you? Goodbye surgeons. Goodbye CEOs. Buh-bye venture capital and their firms. Take the Internet off-line. Stop selling computers. Stop engineering cars. Stop building houses. Stop drilling for oil.

And then after all that's done, we'll have another 1% to complain about. And then kill them.

There are jerks out there. We can give them pressure to not be jerks. But usually, it just takes a few generations to watch their money fall into someone else's hands.

People need to worry about themselves more and others less.

Within such a dark narrative (this guy claims life to be), I'm fairly certain the only salvation one can find is in love.
It's high time people grew out of hoarding capital anyway...

I love it when people do this, back up their point of view with numbers they made up, it just makes them sound like more of an idiot.

No-one mentioned any numbers, and even if they did, I'd hardly call $250,000 rich these days in terms of world wealth and top incomes... It would certainly be along the lines of multiple millions in annual income, and the only people of any worth you mention, the surgeons, still wouldn't, generally, be making that kind of money... but yes, the other, the CEO's, venture capitalists.. yeah they can go, maybe they should even be first against the wall.

Really Tormentfan? Start killing successful people? Dark times my friends....dark times.

No.. just to those greedier and more crooked. Therein lies the class. You think that kind of money can be made by the honest and moral unless it's a lottery win? Don't make me laugh.

Also, Bill Gates only created one of the most world changing(for the better) products in history, should we drag him out of his home and lynch him because he's worth billions?

Actually didn't he fuck over his old business partner?

Shouldn't you be in a park somewhere participating in a drum circle?
So we kill him?