Parasite, not predator.
I prefer the term “Parasite Class”.
Many think the poor to be parasites, but they are actually the opposite.
After all, what is the mark of a parasite? It makes the host think that it is benign, of no harm whatsoever, and in some cases it even convinces its host that it provides a benefit. All the while it visits the most harmful deprivations upon the host, right up to sucking the lifeblood from it until it dies a horrible death.
No other tranche of human society matches those attributes more effectively than the wealthy.
It's not the "predator" class - it's the parasite class.
Calling them "predators" will - apart from the fact that it's inaccurate - simply flatter their egos
The hoarding class
They do hoard wealth, but in another sense they're constantly making money moves: shifting their capital here and there, to extract more value from various local economies.
Hoarding would actually be an improvement. Like a dragon sitting on a pile of gold. But they're more like rampaging dragon that is never satisfied with its booty
They extract value from things until there is no more wealth, like mining an ore vein dry or bottling all the water from an aquafer. They hoard that value for themselves and leave nothing of value for others.
The one description in this entire post that is pretty accurate.
Leeches, because that's what they are.
For me they are parasites, as they live off of the work of everyone else without contributing.
Those who subsist off the philanthropy of the workers who build their houses, produce and prepare their food, and subscribe to their pointless rents.
And these good Samaritan workers do this for a fraction of the value produced, all so that these poor wealthy elites don't have to engage in real, productive labour.
Have a heart. It's a certainty that they would starve without our charity!
Who calls them elite? Only they themselves.
And the media conglomerates they own.
Exactly. They use those to build this lie that they are this grand untouchable class of super beings, but if the OceanGate 2 scandal showed us anything, they are not invincible. They are mortal just like us.
I was just going to say that!
The only time I hear it is in tv shows.
Anime and manga. Classroom of the Elite 🤢
Predator sounds too cool, also. Makes me think of those hunter aliens from the scifi franchise of the same name.
Why not dickbags?
Freeloader class
The handouts class.
I was thinking the parasite class.
I don't like the term sexual predator. It turns out most of them are just doing dumb (but obviously hurtful) shit to anyone they can find that's weaker than them because they have no other ways of feeling empowered and connecting with other human beings. Actual interactions with them in a controlled environment where I'm holding all the cards are just laughably sad.
They keep trying the same petty shit, mostly to my younger female nursing assistants who are smaller and less likely to shut them down quickly (there's a reason they often go after children). Fortunately a) I'm watching and b) all of my nursing assistants know I will drop the fucking hammer in a second I hear the patient is trying to perpetrate some silliness, especially since I usually already know from the patient history.
Predator makes them look a lot more intimidating than can accurately describe such sad little people, so I call them "sex pests."
I was thinking the same thing, predator sounds about as cool as elite
I always thought the elite were the highly educated, not the rich.
You misspelled narcissist.
Very few highly educated folks are poor, in fact, majority come from money.
"More than three-quarters of medical students came from families in the top two quintiles of family income"
https://www.aamc.org/media/9596/download
I am from a family in the 3rd quartile, nobody ever said I could grow up to be a Doctor. Most told me to 'go to state school and get a shitty office job and be happy with it'. In my college all the kids studying to be med students were driving used BMWs/Mercedes and paying several grand extra a year for parking, new dorms, and the like.
I don't think I've ever seen anyone making less than six figures actually call them that
Wait, elite are wealthy? I thought I was a “Coastal Elite Libtard” because I live in a coastal state, am educated, sit at a desk, and earn more than median wage even after adjusting for high cost of living. I worked hard for that college education (many years ago before inflation took it out of reach), now i have to be wealthy too?
Dammit, MAGAts have much simpler criteria and cheaper land, maybe I need to swerve hard right and land in a flyover state
Real-life vampires.
target practice
I just call them leeches.
The lucky. The fortunate.
It ain’t me..
Psychoclass
I call them 'cannibals', like in The Internationale.
The issue is most of us would behave the same way if we were the ones with all the money. Not everyone of course, but a fair number of us.
Call them the eloi
That feeling when you were randomly born wealthy and get the daily slander dose on Lemmy.
Rich nutjobs are eccentric
Too many carnists with a boner for predators
