Super-rich warned of ‘pitchforks and torches’ unless they tackle inequality (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] literallyacat@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

Surely their huge stacks of money will protect them from the bullets, right? Right???

[-] ConsciousCode@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I would personally prefer to sentence anyone with a net worth of over $1B to a lifetime eating $100 bills until they've literally eaten their fortune. Show them the real value of their monopoly paper, you know?

[-] interolivary@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I'm worried you may be underestimating how many bootlickers would be willing to defend a billionaire in some sort of collapse scenario

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