A Luxury Jewelry Company Owner Worth $7.5 Billion Says That His Fear Of The Poor Rising Up "Keeps Him Awake At Night"

Let's be very clear: anyone worth 7,500,000,000 dollars (had to type the entire number out for full effect) should only be kept up at night by one thing and that's sex with any girl they want on the planet. Other than that, they should be sleeping like a baby on their bed made out of one hundred dollar bills. 

Seriously, I know I'm just a dumb thousandaire school teacher speaking here, but what problem in your life can a million dollars not solve? Now here's another million, and another million, and another million, and 7,496 more millions after that. And you're rustling side to side in the middle of the night thinking about the POOR? Give me a break. If the poor uprise, you have enough money to make sure the uprising isn't happening anywhere near you or your life. 

But anyways, his overall stance is that at some point, social reconstruction is going to happen at some point. The truly, truly poor are going to realize that they have nothing to lose, and they can start causing serious trouble with the people that want no trouble at all.

The Independent - The multi-billionaire owner of luxury jewellery company Cartier has revealed his greatest fear – robots replacing workers and the poor rising up to bring down the rich.

Speaking at the Financial Times Business of Luxury Summit in Monaco (obviously), the fashion tycoon told his fellow elite that he can’t sleep at the thought of the social upheaval he thinks is imminent.

I mean I don't disagree with the guy that at some point the people that have truly nothing are going to realize they don't have to take everyone's shit anymore. It's like that scene in Django, where Calvin Candie explains that Old Ben shaved his dad's face with a razor three times a week for 50 years, and never realized he could've slit his throat at any minute. Same with the poor. I don't disagree with his overall point, I just think he's a clown for "losing sleep" over it, and I think he's a little out of touch with the normal population.

Johann Rupert told the conference to bear in mind that when the poor rise up, the middle classes won’t want to buy luxury goods for fear of exposing their wealth.

I got two follow up questions for Mr. Rupert on his choice of words here. I'm not sure these words mean the same to him as they do to us normals. 

The first question is to please define middle class. Reading his quote, he thinks the middle class is Millionaires. But in my eyes, it's people that have both parents working for a living, ordering waters at dinner when you go out to eat maybe a few times a month, attending public schools, fundraising for their youth sports teams, saving up for family vacations but never actually stay right on the beach, etc. I guess my point is that if there was an uprising, the middle class wouldn't fear "exposing their wealth" because they don't have wealth to expose.

And that leads me to my second question, what are luxury items to you, and how would buying them expose the middle class? Luxury items to me are fancy cars and Brick watches. No, if there was an uprising of the poor, I would not buy a Lamborghini. But the way you are talking about middle class and luxury items, you're acting like us common folk couldn't get guac at Chipotle without sound the alarm, sending the peasants and their pitchforks to come get you and your fortune.