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[-] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 147 points 1 year ago

You and me baby aint nothing but mamals, so lets lead a revolution like on discovery channel

[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago

This song has to be taken in the context of its time. You see, discovery channel used to air documentaries and animal shows.

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[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 52 points 1 year ago

like and share if u would beat a billionare with a metal pole

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

I'd use a thin bamboo stick first, that shit leaves a stinging burn sensation on the skin

[-] wombat@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry

[-] propter_hog@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago
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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago
[-] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 year ago

Every healthy economy has a robust guillotine maintenance capability.

[-] Toneswirly@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

If I had the opportunity for some street justice on a billionaire I wouldnt fucking hesitate. That said, it would change jack shit. His wealth just passes to the next asshole.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 year ago

It would change things if it becomes systemic. If they learn to be scared of being a billionaire, maybe they'd be less likely to want to become one.

[-] quicksand@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think they'd just hire more security. They have the money for it.

Edit: I agree with your sentiment though

[-] gimsy@feddit.it 6 points 1 year ago

It is enough to have one person doing the inside job, but this will escalate too and... welcome to modern Russia

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

In a hypothetical world where billionaires cannot go outside a security perimeter for fear of their lives, how soon would we see people refusing the inheritance or donating massive portions?

[-] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago

You just assume that everyone rich would seem rich. If i got billions noone would know. Not everyone needs gargantuan houses and excessively expensive cars and yachts. I would still live in a moderatly tiny house because i don't like housework AND don't like strangers in my house doing that. In fact i just had billions. Nothing in my life would change. I'd be safe in your world 😁

Also what for? To show others i have money? So i could never ever trust a person again? Not everyone wants to be a rockstar. Only those whose personalities are so undeveloped that they need the constant ego-strokes from random strangers to even feel something. I just feel pity for jokes like elon musk.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

True, but you'd need to really stay under the radar in such a world. Any point of contact where someone else knows you have that money would put you at risk. And those can be generated just by getting the money in the first place.

For the record I think it would be a terrible world. Historically, mob violence often kills innocent people, all it would take would be an accusation. And one person's poverty is another person's wealth. They wouldn't exactly stop to ask about the economically defined classes. It would be more like, "Dave got a luxury car, I wonder how much money he's hiding..."

And also, I think I would be someone giving it away as fast as possible. I'm like you, after a couple creature comforts and securing the rest of my life, there's no more need for the money. It's not like I can take it with me.

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[-] asg101@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Eat the rich? They sure are making everything else too expensive.

[-] MaeBorowski@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Beat inflation at the grocery store (and everywhere else) with this one simple trick. Capitalists hate it!

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[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

Nature is wise

[-] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

They have a far more functional society than we do

[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago
[-] exothermic@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Naw. He can’t afford to lose cheap labor

[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago

lose ~~cheap~~ chimp labor.

[-] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Once they have AI bots it's game over.

[-] Signtist@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

This is honestly the reason why I don't think we can achieve a successful uprising anymore. Probably not a nuke, but drones definitely could and would be used to tear through even the largest of mobs if they formed today. Marie Antoinette would be happily eating her cake watching her people get mowed down by autonomous turrets if the French revolution happened today.

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago

IMO we are probably on the brink of the last possible society that can on a technical level. I would say, nukes, and even drone bombs etc.... are unlikely to be utilized, simply due to collateral damage, infrastructure damage etc....

However, things like the boston dynamics spot etc... We're probably a decade away from when 1 person can control an army of perfectly loyal soldiers.

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Unless they're maintaining the software themselves, there's no such thing as perfectly loyal. In the past the revolutionaries needed to capture the armory, now they need to capture / subvert the servers / programmers.

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

It's true... but with all things it's a matter of quantity of people you need to be loyal... IE one commander who agrees with the cause, vs 100 soldiers that could talk about it.

Plus, it's far easier to grow a concience on the field looking in the eyes of the children you are murdering, vs sitting in a computer or robot lab having no "need to know" what these robots do when they leave your office

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[-] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

I disagree, usage of drones hasn't worked to put down any armed struggle in the US's puppet states.

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[-] gnutrino@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago

It's alright, given the current performance of Blue Origin it'll take him a decade or two to get the missile working.

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[-] Bremmy@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Time to return to monk

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Imagine how good one would be off if we had just 1 or 2 million in the bank..... apples would be like 5 bucks each but it would be nice for a good month. But anyway like how do we get say 500 bucks a week and they get 20,000? Or 3,000,000? Like how does that even make sense to anyone?

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[-] Thteven@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago
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