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What they saw.

I believe these two photos were taken at the same place, less than a minute apart.

The kneeling guy with the crown is a counter-protester.

I counted 12 counter-protesters at the initial gathering point.

It was hard to tell at first if someone was a counter-protester because the counter-protesters didn't seem to understand why one would be pro-billionaire and thus their signs were welcome among the protesters.

For example the Poor and Proud and March, the 4th, 100 Irish signs are sentiments that literally every pro-billionaire protester would gladly endorse.

But they, and a couple others, didn't bother marching to the capital, dropping out once we started moving, which makes me think they were probably not actually there in support of the march.

I think eight counter-protesters followed us the entire way, which made the march look a fair bit bigger in photos.

6.

Building Bridges The best part of the march was the occasional opportunities to talk to the counter-protesters.

Over the course of a 40-minute walk it's hard to stay completely alienated from those you're walking with unless you retain strong distance discipline.

One counter-protester commented to me, I bet you can't wait to accelerate the AIs down onto us.

I told him no, actually, I want them to pause all development immediately so we don't all die.

He was surprised that we agreed, saying that he didn't expect long-sighted opinions like that from someone who was so short-term focused that he wanted to protect billionaires.

This is exactly the sort of thing my Jehovah's Witness upbringing had prepared me for.

I cannot believe that training actually came in useful.

I began with, I think we agree on a lot, actually.

We both want to protect the long-term future, and we think the other side is being very short-sighted and destroying the long-term future for short-term gain.

Then I launched into my opinion on the code that has created the society we have today, and how that code means that we will have billionaires who came by their fortunes honorably, and that we must stand true to the code and allow those billionaires to retain the wealth if we want to remain a just and wealthy society.

I drew attention to the fact that we are all stone age billionaires and pointed out my sign and that this is because we have kept faith with the code.