Eat the rich, spread the wealth amongst the poor…
Then the middle class would be the poor class so we kill them and so on?
Eventually we would finally kill the 1%…
Then just start with them sonsabitches!
Trickle the blood down.
Ooooohhhhhhh, THAT’S what they meant… whelp, time to get the bolt cutters!
Why not bomb USA to stop what is going on right now?
easier to kill the rich
kill a couple billionares and give their wealth to the poor people and they wont be poor anymore and it a lot less killing…
2 or 3 instead of millions, I think that math works out pretty well
Bro solved the trolley problem.
Why kill them? I would rather they compete on a reality TV show to not get fired from a soul sucking benefitless job at their former corporations.
I’d watch a reality TV show where people like Musk had to work for a week in a mine, or on an oil rig, doing the hardest jobs. They wouldn’t last a minute.
Nah, that’s too good. He needs to work the lowest paying job in his corp.
I’d love to watch these geniuses try to “innovate” their way out of cleaning toilets.
They had that stupid undercover boss show but it was nothing but a shameless commercial for the company and patronizing pandering to the slave class.
Or Bumfights. What do you think they’ll be using the Temu Colosseum for after it’s first spectacle?
Why can’t we, as a society, just take Musk’s money and redistribute it? It is absolutely stupid that we allow someone to have more money than he can use while so many people can’t afford to live
Realistically it’s not liquid assets like it is for you and me. They purchase items that “appreciate” like land and art, then take loans out using them as collateral to then get them appraised higher to take out another loan to pay off the other one then use the extra for living on. They don’t live on dividends or income, it’s a game of loans that they have a small army of accountants running. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t take those assets. Just that it doesn’t translate into immediate cash flows for people.
Because it’s not “real” money
It’s real enough to use as collateral to borrow actual money from banks.
Sure, but turning it all into actual resources for the community wouldn’t be as easy as it seems (I think?)
We can
Most of those trillions are unrealized gains based on completely unrealistic valuation in “trust me bro” style
Like Tesla being worth more than all the western car manufacturers combined or xai being “worth” billions even if it’s losing billions every year.
The second he dumps those stocks, the house of cards would crash almost immediately
I swear people think billionaires have a giant vault of money like Scrooge McDuck. I have had to explain this to people so many times. His wealth is almost entered imaginary and based on the speculative possible future profits of his companies. If he ever tried to convert it into cash the value would go to zero.
His wealth isn’t imaginary when he uses it as collateral to borrow actual money, though.
That’s the weird part, when billionaires use their money, it’s real.
But when you discuss taking it away or taxing it, it’s suddenly just an imagination.
Money would be devalued quite a bit, since production capacity doesnt randomly jump. If everyone is rich, no one is
If people had money and were able to take care of their needs, they would spend more than the billionaire who just keeps it but doesn’t use it. Money spent would drive the economy creating revenue that can be reinvested into the business to increase efficiency and capacity.
But to address your point, redistributing billionaire wealth directly into workers hands wouldn’t make everyone rich. Yes people would have more money, at least at first. This is why socialists believe in controlling the means of production. Workers should share profits.
Workers should not be so desperate that they can’t afford to go on strike or take time off work to vote, or to have the time to find a good job.
Arguing that everyone can’t be rich isn’t a sincere argument. You’re creating a fictional scenario where everyone has millions of dollars.
I wasn’t arguing against wealth distribution. Im just saying its crazy to believe if everyone were millionaire, everyone could afford what current millionaires can afford. I think the wealth assessment of few individuals is a systematic failure of capitalism. No individual can work enough that they should have a million times that of the average citizen. I think having certain variation in pay grade and wealth can be okay if it serves the best interest of the public and entices people to work hard. The economy would be driven by spending, yes but that spending would devalue money quickly. Also billionaires have most money in company shares, land etc, not liquid cash. Inheritance and wealth tax can do a decent amount to reduce inequality I believe. A good social safety net would also make the US a much better place for the average citizen.
People are just misunderstanding my argument. Although I don’t think violent means like mentioned here are the way to go. But what am I even saying we are in a shitpost community after all.
You don’t need to make everyone millionaires. You do need to give everyone secure access to food, housing and healthcare.
Yes, that is very reasonable and has been the standard in most developed nations for a while now outside the US. Although in the US it would quickly be decried as “communism” or whatever (ignoring the fact the US healthcare system is the most expensive in the world)
It’s worth it.
Sounds like a good thing
You wouldn’t be creating currency, only redistributing it.
Dead Kennedys wrote a song about it
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the poor
46 years old and still relevant. Maybe this is why so many conservatives think they’re punk rock, media literacy and satire are dead and they’re like “yes, let’s kill the poor”.
What a modest proposal
[serious] because the very existence of the rich and poor means there are systems creating inequality.
Should you kill the poor, the next poorest group will be sucked of their money and will become poor.
The problem is not the poor, it’s the system that creates poverty.
For sure. Or put a more direct way, someone needs to be making drinks at Starbucks when the rich-enough-to-survive go there, someone needs to be boiling noodles and chopping onions all day for when they want pasta at a restaurant, someone needs to stand in the sun next to hot asphalt and lay it so they can drive over it.
And if it’s not the too-poor-to-live, it’s the next wrung down.
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[serious] Why not kill the richest people to make the poor people not poor?
They’re trying.
Then who will work for the rich people? The other rich people?
I think that’s my senator!
That has to be a bot post, right?
Who could actually be inhumane enough to just put that thought out there?
Magas. The ultimate fuck you got mine (until someone get theirs instead)
There’s a miniscule chance it’s intentional irony based on Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal, in which Swift proposes easing babies to solve the Irish famine.
Buy probably just a dickbag.
You’d be amazed at the amount of poor people who deeply believe in rich people propaganda
Billionaires
I mean why would people for far right narratives?
Because it’s an easy answer with a appearently reasonable thought process.
The same reason why people online argued Marvel’s Thanos had a point
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