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Luigi Mangione shouts at media as police rush him into court
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His grandparents are wealthy. His parents may be rich but might not be wealthy (they may or may not be, we only know about the grandfather’s extensive holdings and the expensive schooling).
It may sound like bullshit to people stressed about making rent, but middle aged people worth a few million aren’t wealthy. Like if you’re super lucky you can work for 20-30 years and own a house in or near a major city and have a enough of a retirement or pension to quit working when you’re old and have a reasonable lifestyle. I’m in a mid tier city and even here paying off your house or condo means you’re worth at least 500k. That isn’t “buy a politician” money. That isn’t “live in any country I want because I’m rich enough that everyone gives me citizenship” money. That isn’t “immune from health insurance fuckery” money. That isn’t “get away with murder“ money.
Anyway. A wealthy grandfather may be willing to help out with or pay for schooling. But it’s a coin flip on whether he’s gonna shell out hundreds of thousands or millions for a legal defense (and if he did, would he pull funding if the defense wasn’t to his liking?). From the granddad’s perspective, the kid is a class traitor.
I mean shit, GoFundMe is trying to stamp it out right and left, but there was donations for Kyle Rittenhouse...
Luigi is going to get a shit ton of money for legal fees, from pretty much every demographics. His generational wealth and connections mean he's not going to get some ambulance chaser, he's going to get an established law firm that will tear the state to shreds.
Honestly, this might be what finally pits the 1% against the 0.01%...
They're not used to their own being mistreated, and (most likely correctly) assume if they unit with the other 98.9% of the country the wealthiest don't have a chance.
When people like this are bucking the system, it's not a good sign
Just because his grandfather was wealthy doesn't mean that he is. Not destitute like so many, sure, but that's not the same as being the 1%. I think I read that Luigi is one of like 37 grandchildren. That's spreading things pretty thin.
I don't have sources on me. But I'm fairly certain that in the French Revolution you had upper class supporters of the revolution, and maybe even some nobility. Most of the revolutions did, and they provided support to the revolution usually through some supply chain they had access to.
That being said, I could be entirely making it up, because that would have been more than a decade ago I learned it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Philippe_II,_Duke_of_Orl%C3%A9ans
Well, I was sort of hoping for a happier ending than that, but they didn't call it the reign of terror for not beheading 16,000 people.
I hope you're right, but I'm just not as hopeful anymore.