Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
Im a centrist, i think billionaires should have their wealth liquidated and socialized. You know, instead of murdering them in the streets and letting those that want to eat them…
Not sure if this is missing a /s, but my suggestion is an opening salvo, not the end goal.
Further, I’m not an advocate for anyone to eat shit. The rich should be mulched as a form of resource recycling.
yes “compost the rich” has always been my preferred go to as well. Its more feasible and waaaaay healthier. For us.
I think they are joking that redistributing their wealth and abolishing billionaires is centrist. Or rather, should be, and that murdering them all is the slightly more radical alternative.
And honestly, yeah, why is it acceptable, at all, for a few select individuals to have such massive fucking amounts of wealth, and not just that, but have that be like… the “medium”/centrist opinion? That’s completely absurd. It should be in the realm of neofeudalism or neomonarchism. A far far right wing joke of an opinion.
Yes. If chuds can pretend to be rational centrists, so can i lmao
I like the way you think. Fuck bailouts - guillotine that shit!!!
I’d be willing to run a science experiment where we eliminate those people and redistribute the wealth to the people, to determine its impacts on society. For science!
Until we change the things that allow them to accumulate that wealth it won’t do much. Just make things a small bit easier for a bit until they suck it back up again
We are in dire need of another soft reset though. There just isn’t enough room to maneuver change with the stranglehold they currently have.
I feel like this is sort of the collective problem humanity has. As soon as we do that reset, people will just say “🤷♂️ things are good now so why do we need to focus on changing anything? oh look this politician’s offering me a tax break”
Edit: that being said I would kill for a soft reset anyway
We can keep doing it every year. I don’t mind.
I think of that step two
I think even doing step 1 of your 2 step action plan would have measurable effect.
Most of the wealth is stocks. How would distribution stock, yachts, mansions going to help everyone?
Stocks are easy to disperse. Non liquid assets can be repurposed for public benefit. The yacht is now a passenger ferry. The mansion is homeless housing. Etc etc
That would do literally nothing for the people. That would help like .000001% of Americans, and who would pay for the upkeep?
Public ownership of production
So you think everyone sounds get a piece of profits and the government runs the company’s?
There would not longer be a concept of “profits” in this system but sort of yeah? A state made up of workers who democratically determine what should be produced and to what extent based on the known needs and capabilities of the population within the context of the long term consequences of production would be a good thing. The government wouldn’t “own companies” because the idea of a company would not exist. A percentage of the value produced by each worker would be theirs and the rest would go to social services instead of their employers personal wealth.
8.6 Billion people
0.001% is 86,000 people
Average volume of a person is 0.1m^3
Compacted into a flesh cube, that is 860m^3. Each edge of the flesh cube would be 283m long (928 ft or 2.5 football fields)
The more you know.
Normally I’m not a fan of compacting people into flesh cubes 2.5 football fields to a side, but in this case I’ll make an exception
Are there sizes you do generally like?
In most situations you don’t want any one compacted flesh cube to be larger than what you can move with a forklift.
I mean if you prefer it’s probably feasible to compact them into 86000 much smaller meat cubes 🤷
Not everything is a result of capitalism. But this certainly is.
i mean, it is lol. this is a true statement if you remove “capitalism” from the concept of pursuing profit above all else. that isn’t just capitalism but it is a primary way to execute it. mercantilism and feudalism practically laid the groundwork for capitalism, so the concept of malicious greed existed way before.
most social problems can be traced back to the pursuit of wealth, yes.
Click on my profile lol
hah, nice. sad world we’re in lol.
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Half the people in the world have zero wealth (which is bad let’s continue to help with this), but anyone who has a twenty in their pocket, no car, no mortgage, and their credit card paid off has more wealth than half the population.
