Yep. I think that's the biggest point I'm trying to nail down in my essay. I don't think that violence is justified in most cases, but I'm also not naive to the fact that sometimes violence is just self-defense. The existential reality of billionaires and mega-millionaires is predicated upon violence, and violence begets violence.

People are becoming aware of the fact that American democracy is dead - our economic and political structure is, by all accounts, an oligarchy, and oligarchies inherently breed the revolutions that destroy them. Historically, oligarchies have almost always been overthrown by revolution or revolt.

Billionaires have good reason to be afraid. They've beaten and battered down the workers who create their wealth to the point of breaking, hoping that it would make them cower and do their jobs, subsisting on the means provided. But you slap someone so many times to keep them in line, and all of the energy that it took to resist them slapping you back eventually becomes a punch -- or worse.