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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Wealth tax that goes directly to funding a billionaire audit program. It should create a self-perpetuating cycle that means IRS audits for all of them every year.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They need to regularly take a shit, like everybody else. They just use more expensive toilet paper I suppose.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Except at their offices where they but the thinnest 1 ply air they possibly can.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (34 children)

It depends on the billionaire.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Leeches. Fuck em.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Kill The Rich, that's my stance.

There's no reasoning with them, getting through to them or anything. Talk time is long over because we've tried over and over again. They're committed to self-serving only themselves and other rich friends, over valuing what could've been, a more prosperous progressing society and world.

I don't know what kind of response you're expecting for this, but all that's going to happen is that you'll get responses like mine, you'll get billionaire ass-kissers and maybe middle of the road responses.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Their an abomination. An exploitation of a system that values exponential growth more than inherent human values. In a world where public infrastructure is collapsing and there's homeless people on tbe street, individuals should not be able to amass such absurd wealth only for their own self enrichment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Abolish with prejudice

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I want to be one and buy land and develop a village and live on a mansion on a hill overlooking it. Not for profit or anything, make the houses affordable (maybe rent them out and then sell it to the tenants after a certain time, factoring paid rent as a discount?) for nice people. Just have myself a wee community and LARP as a 17th century lord (the nice kind)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

in the (translated) Words of Knorkator:

The world doesn't need billionaires imagine how beautiful it would be without you! Empathy and reason instead of greed and scam fresh air, green forests, clean seas.

The world doesn't need billionaires and we will even achieve this without guns: No, we won't kill you and we won't imprison you, on the opposite: you will be millionaires!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Same as that guys from yesterday. I would prefer a guillotine, but You gotta work with whatcha got.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

In terms of scale, from the person at the top making xxx times the person at the bottom, they've likely always been around.

"Robber Baron" is the ye olde term.

Google tells me John D. Rockefeller peaked at around $1.4 billion in 1937. 1.5% of US GDP.

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47167

The average wage in 1937 was $890 a year.

https://time.com/archive/6760420/personnel-above-average/

So Rockefeller, at his death, had amassed as much wealth as 1,573,034 average people would earn in a year.

In order to hit 1.5% of current US GDP (27.36 trillion), Bezos or Musk would have to hit 410.4 billion. That's how wealthy Rockefeller was.

1.2 Musks. 2 Bezoses.

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