I would cheer on the guillotine much more than the average person, but let’s be honest about what material conditions are required.
The French poor were paying 60% of their income on bread. That was not enough for guillotines. Only after a poor harvest, and added mismanagement, the prices rose to 80% of their income- only then did heads start to roll.
There were no guillotines in the great depression (probably in large part thanks to The New Deal). So for Americans to deploy a guillotine, it would require an economic collapse worse than the great depression.
Frankly, many of us will starve before Musk’s head is in a basket.
I would cheer on the guillotine much more than the average person, but let’s be honest about what material conditions are required.
The French poor were paying 60% of their income on bread. That was not enough for guillotines. Only after a poor harvest, and added mismanagement, the prices rose to 80% of their income- only then did heads start to roll.
There were no guillotines in the great depression (probably in large part thanks to The New Deal). So for Americans to deploy a guillotine, it would require an economic collapse worse than the great depression.
Frankly, many of us will starve before Musk’s head is in a basket.
Nah, people are much more entitled now.
Mass unemployment will do it.