At this point radical measures are necessary to right the wrongs committed by the rich. Taxes are a good start but not enough.
Jail sentences,
countless are dead due to billionaire greed. they are directly responsible.
life sentences for billionaires
Jail them and spend even more money? Naa, just eat em
they rich are an ethical source of protein
There is no law providing for such a sentence, so what you are talking about is either "make billionaireism illegal" or "extrajudicial punishment". In the case of the former, we need a Guillotine Party to take over the DNC much like the Tea Party took over the GOP. Or, we need a guillotine party, French Revolution style, to resolve the problem-class at its source.
If I have a company, where I intentionally make choices that kill my costumers, that would make me liable for manslaughter, me and anyone involved in the deaths. why healthcare billionaires are not liable?
same with every other billionaire who profits from human suffering and deaths.
Overnight massive protests at their places of residence will help
Every person who kills a billionaire does so in self defense.
Literal parasites who consume everything and offer nothing in return
The (original) Nazis are rightfully considered monsters for killing millions of people in the 20th century. What will any survivors of the incineration of earth consider the billionaires that are killing BILLIONS of us for greed?
Suppose you spend 1.000 dollar a day.
A millionaire would take roughly 3 years until he spent it all.
If Jesus were a billionaire and did the same. He wouldn't finished by today and would need another 700 years.
The numbers might be not exact but the point still stands: The difference between a millionaire and billionaire is ridiculous huge.
There are roughly just under 3000 people on earth with more than a billion dollars.
They have a combined net worth of over $16 Trillion
Say the almighty Cthulu/Allah/Zeus decided "yo fuck those assholes" and instantly redistributed that $16 trillion among all 8 billion+ people on earth equally
Everyone: Every man, woman and child would get just a bit shy of $2000.
Fun thought experiment
People think they understand numbers like billion because they understand thousand and billion is just thousand times thousand (million) times thousand. Multiplication is fairly intuitive, but exponentiation is not. Without explicitly thinking it through people feel like 1000^3 is not very different from 1000 * 3.
It's the same reason the lottery fools so many people into gambling their money away.
Correct, because the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is roughly 1 billion dollars.
I think what you mean to say is capitalism is cancer. There are books written on the subject.
Figuratively, but yes, I agree.
actually yes, figuratively is the word that i should have used.
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.
Not a fan fat shaming that gets bundled in with that but basically. It's the vice of greed, plain and simple.
Like imagine rolling up to a potluck and just buying the table, leaving naught but a bag of chips for the rest of the party. Even if you can afford it, it's still a crime against your fellows.
Each billionaire is an individual problem AND allowing billionaires to grab and monopolize so many resources and even looking up to them is a systemic problem.
Without the systemic problem which is Capitalism and the shallow, greedy present day society, billionaires would be treated the same as other hoarders - seen mentally derranged and stopped from going too far for their own good and the good of others.
There will always be nutters, but if the social system we have wasn't broken, this very specific kind of nutter would never be allowed to cause the damage they do with their mental disease.
You're right about the similarities, but having similarities is not what "literally" means. That word is so fucking overused.
Been saying it for years. Sadly there are too many at the bottom mesmerized by the elite propaganda telling them "you can also be like me, if you work hard", as if they earned billions that way without any dirty tactics along the way, and despite even with success still needing such tactics to take more and more.
I am incensed by the use of the word “literally” here almost as much as I am incensed by the hyper rich denying the vast fraction of the human race basics rights and freedoms. Almost.
I think OP used literally correctly here. They are saying that one possible definition of the word cancer can include billionaires as an instance. That's not the definition you'll find in any dictionary, but those lag behind the true language as it evolves.
Corporations with more than 1 billion are more of a cancer than individual billionaires
This was pretty much the point Agent Smith was making to Morpheus in his ‘virus’ speech.
jokes on them cancer dies with the host
At this point it's not violence, it's self defence.
What are you talking about? Billionaires are what's saving this country! Everyone just needs to stop eating and be homeless. But also fuxk homeless people and you turn to drugs for comfort? Jail obviously. They're totally fixing everything! /S
You know in hungarian we would flip this a bit on its head as we have a curse, "a rák vigye el", which means may cancer "bring them away"(kill them). I support this idea in this specific case.
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
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