Bastille Day can't come soon enough...

So earlier this week the California Department of Transportation or Caltrans if you're in a hurry, along with Santa Cruz law enforcement cleared out dozens of people and their tents from an encampment where many of the people have been living for up to a year. 

"Where are they supposed to go? Great question. We're working
with our community partners to-holy shit! Look behind you! Quick!
No really, I swear, you're not going to- just, just turn around before-"

-City Officials shortly before running 

off while everyone's backs were turned

Sorry, that's unfair. It's a yacht so
big that it has it's own yacht, and
 that yacht has its own helipad.

The city had a hugely disproportionate number of people experiencing homelessness before the pandemic; something like twelve hundred people or 2% of the town's total residency of 64,000. And I can't imagine it's any better now. To make matters worse, the plan now is to pass a city ordinance banning outdoor camping within city limits, leaving city residents asking reasonable questions like, "Where are people supposed to sleep?" "How can a ban like that even be enforced?" and perhaps most importantly "What do you mean Jeff Bezos is buying a yacht so big it has it's own yacht?" 

According to Bloomberg Wealth--a news outlet for people who refer to how much money they have as wealth, instead of, you know, rent and food--the yacht is supposed to be 417 feet long and cost over--are you sitting down? Because sit down. It's supposed to cost over five hundred million dollars. Of money. 

Pictured: Not Jeff Bezos' new yacht. There are no pictures of his new yacht,
because rich people have something called NDA's which are like legal cloaking
devices that let them do shit that nobody's allowed to talk about it.

I mean, how do they think
this is going to end?

Now, I know what you're thinking, and no, we can't just roll out the ol'guillotine and start head-chopping our way back to an equitable system. That would make us monsters. But with each passing outrage, it's becoming harder and harder to say that. In 2020, while millions of people were busy losing their jobs and trying not to get breathed on by maskless MAGA goons, billionaires got a trillion dollars richer. That's a real number by the way, it's not like a kajillion. They sucked a trillion more dollars out of the world, and $70 billion of that went to Bezos personally. 

So my question is what the actual? Fuck that is. What the actual fuck. Again, I am 100% not advocating some kind of violent class war, but this is completely unsustainable, right? Like, did I mention there are half a million homeless people in the U.S.? And that dozens of them just got evicted from an empty lot? Meanwhile, a guy who made his fortune running other businesses out of business, and who asks his employees to shit in bags to save time, is buying a yacht that has its own yachts (with a helipad). Something has got to give. 

There is nothing, literally nothing one person has done or could
do that would justify them having 185.7 billion dollars. Nothing.