Another fun fact, billionaires and their lifestyles emmit more carbon pollution in 90 minutes than the average person in their lifetimes.
So what you are saying is we have plenty supply of school children and not enough billionaires? Let's see how we can get more billionaires then. Or do you want to reduce the number of school children? Because that is being worked on constantly...America, you have the freedom to get killed by someone with mental issues anytime.
Starting a psyop on 4chan for making edgy school shooter wannabes start aiming at billionaires instead.
"You see anon, it's not that girls don't like you or that your class has 1 non-white person in cornbread America, it's that billionaires are leeches in society, and the cops they own would stop you. Don't fire at classmates, fire at the upper class."
For good measure point out that people migrating into the country are often because the 1% are offering them otherwise high paying jobs at below minimum wage, but thanks to the exchange rate that's like a million dollars an hour back in their home country.
Don't make it obvious that you're on the Left or they'll ignore you on principle. Make it sound like you're "one of them"
I tried to teach socialism for terminally 4chan people, it's hard, and can be immediately undone by /pol/, some other nazi shit, etc.
I did it once, in person, and all it took was food every day for a few months. We all shared our food at lunch instead of keeping it to ourselves, and we all went away more full than we had before. (the reason is that we all got a larger variety of flavors than before, but that's not the point. The point is communism) Never out had to talk about leftism or politics either, people just sort of came around via eating.
Only if the wealth is redistributed to the masses though.
Yeah exactly. Normal inheritance means their kids or spouse inherit, and the number of billionaires remains the same.
but if not, and they have two or more children ic tje amount gets split between them. Then you handlo those, and their children etc. It's financial homeopathy
Narrator: it isn't
By this algorithm, it would have to. Otherwise it'd just create a new billionaire who'd go to the back of the line
In some cases, the wealth might simple be gone because the stock crashes of which the bulk of the wealth is built.
I haven't actually done the math, but by percentages I think they are probably fairly close.
Its not hard to look up school shooting fatalities, but it would be depressing
Welp that sucked.
69 deaths in 2024 (323 school shootings in 1 year. More school shootings than school days. What are you doing there?)*
And
400+ billionaires the poorest is 3.3B
So 2024 had 1 Billionare death, at this rate, we need 399 more years...
*I forgot to add. Both this source and me are not american. Feel free to correct me with a more local source
Also, only about 28,000 hundred-million-plus-inaires on Earth.
For perspective, significantly more Palestinians have already been casually genocided by our bestie trade partner in that current conflict.
The blight upon our civilization of billions is not that large.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/10/number-of-people-with-100-million-has-doubled-since-2003.html
I'm not even suggesting they be adjusted, because I'm not a sociopath like they are. Use an economic guillotine, confiscate their exploitation gotten hoards for the commons(yes nationalize essential industries like utilities and Healthcare so they're owned by society), reshape the economy to stop rewarding speculative gambling with exploitation gotten chips over honest labor and vocations like teachers that keep civilization running, obviously institute a maximum wealth cap as other people live in this society going forward to prevent recurrance, bring their ego scores to zero for their murderous greed, let them keep $20 and give each of them a set of literal, cheap bootstraps, and let them get a real job.
Bar them from forming any kind of corporate entities or investing in anything other than a standard savings account for life, just as people convicted of computer crimes are sometimes barred from operating computers as they've proven they're a danger to others with them.
I'd be shocked if half of them didn't take themselves out of the equation suddenly being subject to the same reality as their current livestock.
So... You want socialism?
I do, and I'm tired of pretending I don't.
I never didn't when I reached the age of reason and saw the social
tolerancecelebrationworship of unchecked avarice as the core rot in our civilization for what it is.Im glad so many are finally overcoming their capitalist "greed is rational and your lessers have to lose for you to win" programming, even at this late hour as the capitalists burn the very world under our feet... and your grandmother who needs a hip replacement or chemotherapy alive... for another nickel on their sociopath hoards.
Do we want a society... And all the benefits that being an actual society with a functioning social contract entails? Or do we want to continue to be a bunch of
temporarily embarrassed millionairespathetic mark suckers at each other's throats tearing eachother down over scraps and false promises (hard work will be rewarded! Consumption will make you feel better! The odds are ever in your favor!) so we never look up at our owners?
let them keep $20 and give each of them a set of literal, *cheap* bootstraps, and let them get a *real job.*
Lettem keep hundreds of millions and all the non-lizards amongst them shouldn’t have realistic reasons to complain, plus society still benefits most hugely and you can still win capitalism (so they can’t argue completely any “necessary incentive” argument).
A lot of readers here are unimaginably wealthy compared to destitute villagers around the world, but we still prefer to have some nice things and only donate of our wealth. I’m fine extending that philosophy to anyone.
(In Burundi, the average earner won’t make $1000 this year.)
And I want my scalps!
So were these sausages I bought today.
That would involve people actually doing something rather than waiting for someone else.
And even then you guys would fall into conspiracy theories because you can't believe someone actually did something.
It's a prisoner's dilemma. Of fucking course we should revolt and save the world. Organizing that is not easy, especially when it makes you a target.
And this is the heart of our predicament - the ones in control understand this. If they keep our misery at a low simmer they get to extract everything from us, slowly, we won't revolt. I worry that our only hope may be that they miscalculate and the pot boils over. I really don't want that, but I'm having a harder and harder time imagining real improvements anymore.
Everyone is doing something. Working, going to school, living their lives. Even people who have no job, who walk the streets, are doing something: surviving.
Most people’s survival instincts prevent them from taking drastic measures like this, even when things are really bad. Think of how many people who had every incentive to take a shot at Hitler but did not, despite all the horrors of the Nazi regime.
One small problem:
Billionaires are not closed in together in a poorly secured room, thus you will need a lot more effort to just shoot down one of them.
The 55th World Economic Forum will happen in a few weeks, but the security will probably be, like, almost twice as tight as the average school.
/s
Just arrange a dick measuring contest, and the largest dicks with the smallest wieners will come together. (pun not intended)
So many heirs tho...
What do we do if their heirs just inherit it?
Anakin Skywalker time? 🤔
They'd get generous quickly if we kept the guillotines lubricated
If we're waving magic wands around, change the tax laws to limit how much you can inherit.
Changing the step up basis thing is actually pretty low hanging fruit.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/stepupinbasis.asp
https://smartasset.com/investing/buy-borrow-die-how-the-rich-avoid-taxes
I mean, if we could easily change laws, we wouldn't need to murder a bunch of rich people, just seize any assets that exceed a certain limit (a wealth cap essentially) and call it a day. No bloodshed. Frankly, I'm not a fan of violence if there is a peaceful path.
There are 1050 estimated billionaires in the US. In 2024 we've had 38 school shooting related deaths.
So a bit more than 2 months...
How many people got shot at school shootings, though?
Looks like 116 recorded school shooting related injuries this year so far. Hard to say how many of those were kids getting shot though
Who said anything about the US? Why not use world numbers?
He is not talking about school related deaths but about deaths of school children, so everyone who is still a school age.
We'd have have to use drugs or something first to get them to sign over their wealth. Probably film it, make sure no one thinks it was under duress. The whole process could take months to make sure it looks legit. CIA level brainwashing maybe? I donno, just spitballing. Then just make sure they can't backtrack on everything by finishing the job.
Not necessary. After the first round of billionaires has been dispatched, their nepo babies will see the writing on the wall and sign it over quite willingly without any kind of coercion.
This, make them afraid of having too much at once. It's what people recieving disability payments are already used to. (You actually get cut off and removed from healthcare providers if you're disabled and have 2000 in savings, and your spouse's income counts so you basically can't get married.
I don't know enough to know if it's easier to cover up months of subtle and forceful coercion, or a billionaire's murder. I think that would count as 'duress' for the nepo chilluns. This is hard, I can understand why everyone's not doing it.
Let him cook
Unfortunately billionaires rarely try to educate themselves about the world at all, let alone gather together in a single cramped room to be educated. Still, it's a nice idea.
Good point, even though the numbers don't check out.
There were 69 children killed this year. 813 billionaires in the US. It would take almost 12 years.
Edit: These are only the school shootings, not the all deaths of minors
Where did you get that number? John Hopkins is reporting 48,204 gun deaths for people aged 0-17 in 2022.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-17/us-school-shootings-2024-in-numbers/104734714
My mistake, I was only looking at the school shootings.
So actually less than a week.
This is ignoring inheritance!
