Fuck 'em all to death.
this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2024
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I think it’s fair; hold no grudge. Happy to go into the reasons if anyone’s curious.
I don't think it's fair. A billionaire only needs one pillow like everyone else. And there are a lot of people starving in this world.
Fuck em. Instantaneous lead poisoning.
What a funny thing to ask on Lemmy.
I prefer mine well done, and grilled to perfection personally.
they're by definition a cancer in society
If anything, I have ever so slightly less problems with billionaires like Gabe Newell (Valve ceo) since he's doing something constructive (proton/steam deck) that, while it does absolutely help line his pockets, is still helpful to people who play games.
Though on a moral level I personally feel not allowed to like him because he's a billionaire. That sentiment is spread across all billionaires for me. Either way, in general I don't like them because 99.9999999% of all billionaires do as much as possible to fuck over literally everyone else.
I think there’s about 8-10% too many of them. To make things fair, we should remove an equal portion of each (starting from the top).
Is this a joke topic?
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)
I support billionaire behaviour fully
They are subsidized by our government. Truly. The broken system created Elon Musk and now the broken system allowed him to buy a presidency for $134 million. Cheap, for him.
How? That is how much the system has devalued American labor since 1981.
Give them an award saying "Yay, you won capitalism!" then force them to retire and enjoy the rest of their life without ruining any more people's lives.
NG+, take away their money and have them start over again, but without help from their rich parents or with the odds stacked against them somehow.
If they truly work so hard that they deserve all that money, they'll have absolutely no issue earning it again.
Ideally they'd be taxed into no longer being billionaires.
Realistically we probably need to violently remind them who holds the actual power before this becomes a reality.
they look delicious.
It billionaires exist then there is a problem in the system. Billionaires are a bug, not a feature.
If a monkey hoarded more bananas then it could ever eat in its life, to the detriment of other monkeys around it, those other monkeys would kill it, and if they didn't, scientists would, to see what was wrong in its brain.
Not before ripping it's face off and maiming it's genitalia. Honestly, it's too good for em
The easiest way to identify enemies of freedom and liberty. Count their net worth.
I don't support violence at all. But for every mentioned woodchipper, this scene from Tucker & Dale vs Evil is mandatory:
Hoarding that wealth does nothing to improve society.
Cap real wealth at 200 million EUR, any more wealth accumulated needs to be shunted to a global poverty fund.
However, the wealth earned should still be recorded as having been earned by the person, this will give the person the recognizion they crave, a highscore list to give them incentive to keep going.
This is obviously impossible to do as wealth is not a tangible concept these days.
I was thinking about this and I'm actually curious how that would work in practical terms.
Let's think of somebody with a large company, whose wealth is not in cash (not the largest sum, at least) but mostly on shares of their companies. Once their shares raise over 200 million... What? Do they sell the shares to pay 100% tax on the surplus? What does that mean for companies that, due to the economies of scale and it's costs, need to be massive to be competitive? (Chip manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, civil engineering...).
To be clear, I don't think it's possible to become a billionaire without being immoral, and to hoard more than you and your children need for the remainder of their lives is also immoral. Not arguing that, only how that could be fixed
Yes, they sell the shares.
If companies need to break through the roof to compete then they'd just have to not compete.
I'd calculated 10M would be way more than enough but it's a good start.
Give them a special achievement sticker on their license.
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