Bill Burr calls on 'billionaires to be put down like rabid dogs' in podcast
Bill Burr calls on 'billionaires to be put down like rabid dogs' in podcast
"If you work a whole f--king week at a job, you should be able to pay your f--king rent," the comedian cried on his podcast.
Bill Burr's project to turn every mansion into Luigi's Mansion
Yeow, going French Revolution on this one. I don't mind wealthy people, but they cannot continue to fuck around with income distribution.
waow..
Incidentally, if anyone out there works as a PA or driver or something to one of these billionaires, tomorrow is "bring your piano wire to work day".
Fucking based, I need more people with focus saying shit the people are thinking.
Maybe we collectively need to recognize billionaires like they recognize their workers. I propose the following:
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“Becoming a billionaire” is still a thing that the most aggressive, ambitious sociopaths among us can aspire to. Because they and the broken people that idolize them will insist that great things cannot happen without the promise of great rewards. And obviously the only “reward” of any meaning to them is money.
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Once you are a billionaire, you get a nationally broadcast pizza party on CSPAN and we engrave your name into a plaque in some “hall of smart winners” somewhere in DC. You are declared a champion of the economy and the President shakes your hand and declares a one-time national day to be in your honor. Or they read your name during the superbowl that year or whatever. Your place in history is locked in.
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Assets and earnings in excess of 1 billion are seized and given to charity, or infrastructure, or healthcare or whatever. Used for the betterment of society. It should be done responsibly in a way that won’t ruin the assets, for example not liquidating billions in stock all at once.
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The government publishes a leaderboard every year that shows which Champions of the Economy™️ gave the most back to society that year in the form of excess earnings. And we all pretend that we’re REALLY impressed.
They can have their on-paper status and their superficial adoration they hunger for. And they can even be stupidly rich by ANY standard.
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Highly based
When life gives you billionaires, make billionnaise.
Disagree. Rabid dogs who must be euthanized deserve care, compassion, and respect when doing so. Rabies isn't a life choice a dog makes.
Billionaires deserve no such care, compassion, or respect.
also did Bill Burr ever apologize for all the transphobic shit he's said recently? Don't get me wrong, I'm happy with anyone of any walk of life gaining class consciousness, especially if they talk about it. But it'd be even better if he's stopped being transphobic on top of that.
Dumb shit clueless billionaires: "I've rented a house for a vacation once, they want $21,000 a week!?"
Billionaires should not exist. You don't get to be a billionaire without exploiting people - for that matter once you get over about 10M you're probably stepping on people, or exploiting systems, in order to continue growing your wealth. And why, exactly? It's a sickness that gets worse the richer someone gets. It's been studied and confirmed that people who have excessive wealth convince themselves that they deserve it, they earned it individually, and that they are special and more valuable than others. So instead of riding off into the sunset, they feed their addiction by buying outsized and unearned power in order to shape the laws so that they can make more money. Just fuck off already - you won at capitalism, now get the fuck out of the way and stop screwing over everyone else and making our lives miserable.
Beyond 100M we should just take it all for the state. 100% tax rate. If you want to keep earning beyond that, then great, you will have the glory of contributing to the public good.
But since billionaires have convinced idiots to advocate against the idiots' own interest, and argue that the billionaires can't be constrained in any way, then this will never happen in the current social context. So next best thing is to do as Bill says. Put the fear of God into them.
Super Luigi time!
1.5 people died during hurricane Katrina.
For every billion in a billionaires hands, how many lives are lost? It can probably be quantified.
Using this paper, we can calculate a number of deaths per megawatt of energy consumed (using global averages). If the planet consumes 17,000 TWh annually, and there are 10 million deaths annually, thats about 0.0006 deaths per MWh.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33577774/
Just quick and dirty numbers but from some lazy searching the following companies used..
Samsung: Nearly 30 TWh in 2023. Google: Approximately 25 TWh in 2023. Microsoft: Around 23.5 TWh in 2023.
Samsung:30,000,000 MWh×0.0006 deaths per MWh=18,000 deaths
Google:24,000,000 MWh×0.0006 deaths per MWh=14,400 deaths
Microsoft:24,000,000 MWh×0.0006 deaths per MWh=14,400 deaths
Now these big tech companies don't all use fossil fuels, but we're just trying to get into a ball park... so lets continue as if they had used all fossil fuels.. Samsung:
18,000 deaths/ 17.92 billion USD≈1,004 deaths per billion USD
Google (Alphabet):14,400 deaths/ 94.2 billion USD≈153 deaths per billion USD
Microsoft:14,400 deaths/ 69.02 billion USD≈209 deaths per billion USD
So we can estimate some where between maybe 100 and 1000 deaths per billion dollars for these tech companies. Now of course how you make those billions matters (maybe). For example, we can do the same thing with Exxon mobile, which represents 3.7% of global emissions. 10,200,000 deaths×0.037≈377,400 deaths. 377,400/ 37 billion, Exxons 2024 profits gives us 11,200 deaths per billion.
We can of course also divide this out to get to about how much profit is generated before a single person dies. Maybe this could be considered the lower limit where profit extraction should be considered criminal
In the lower end scenario, it would be at between 6.5 million dollars and one million dollars in profit extraction would relate to at least 1 lost life. Obviously extremely rough numbers, but if we look at some one like Musk, allegedly worth 500 billion, that would relate to between 100k and 500k deaths their profit extraction is directly responsible for.
And of course this is only from particulate matter emissions from emissions. There are many, many other externalizes not quantified here. It also isn't fully representative because, yes, many companies do purchase renewables (Amazon claims to be renewable) but this probably gets us close enough to start having a more serious dialogue about the relationship between extractive capitalism and consequences to human life. Based on these back of the napkins, it would seem like every billionaire should be considered responsible for, at a minimum, at least one lost life.
And to put that into Hurricane terms, Elon Musk represents around 300 hurricane Katrinas.
We had an economic plan for this almost a century ago. It was called the "euthenasia of the rentier class" advocated by john Maynard Keynes. I guess we didn't expect the rentier to also control the financial system.
Love Bill. The Monday morning podcast got me through the pandemic.
time for an old yeller solution.
Based
Hell fucking yeah
Oh Bill Burr, what a rebel. Did you say this and then hop in your limo, sipping on a cappuccino at some overpriced coffee shop in Los Angeles? Because that's just soooo not the image of a real-life firebrand like yourself, is it?
Newsflash, Bill: "Billionaires should be put down like rabid dogs" is not radical, it's not edgy, and it's certainly not provocative. It's just basic human decency. I mean, come on, you're talking about the same people who own half the media outlets in this country. The same people who make millions off the suffering of others.
And what's with the whole "rabid dogs" thing? Is that supposed to be some kind of clever metaphor for how these billionaire sociopaths are just running around, spreading their diseased ideology and ruining everything they touch? Please. It's just a lazy way of putting down someone who is already being criticized by millions of people.
And don't even get me started on the irony. You're complaining about billionaires, yet you've got your own Netflix deal that's worth tens of millions of dollars. So no, Bill, I don't think you can talk about how you wish we'd put down these "rabid dogs" when you're probably more concerned with padding your bank account.
I mean, what's next? Are you going to start ranting about how much you love socialist Bernie Sanders and how we should all just give up and live in a tent city because it's the only way to combat income inequality? Give me a break. You're not some kind of true original thinker, Bill. You're just another middle-of-the-road comedian who thinks he can make waves by saying whatever outrage du jour is popular.
And you know what the worst part is? I bet most people are going to be more turned off by your fluff piece than anything else. They'll read this article and think "oh, Bill's got a new rant!" instead of actually listening to what he has to say about the issues that really matter.
But hey, keep on complaining, Bill. Keep on talking about how you wish we'd put down billionaires like rabid dogs. Maybe if you spent more time actually doing something to change the system and less time pontificating in your limo, people would actually start listening to what you have to say.
