There are less than 1000 billionaires in the United States. We could do it in a single day.
"Just murder a few people" is always popular as a solution. I blame modern "you have to break a few eggs to make an omelette" discourse here. The idea that whatever option inflicts the most collateral damage must be the best one is horrifyingly popular on both the left and right.
I think they do a little more than just "study" the Third Reich...
you could fit them all in a small concert venue
It isn't "a few people" and they aren't random people. They're the ones who have hoarded, stolen, lied, killed and worse to get the majority of the wealth
The same wealth they use, in part, to buy the governments and rig everything to their sole benefit. They are THE problem, period
Like, some of the billionaires would even help you out of fear. Many more would help you if you lied to them about their future.
Hell about 8000 Americans normally die in a day so it wouldn't even cause a noticeable increase in mortality
George Lucas can stay, he got his money by stealing it from Disney so they could make their brand even more embarassing
if it upsets you just pretend they're in line for food
A St Bart's day type event for billionaires would solve a lot
Less than a day really. Just offer total immunity to anyone who does it. Stupid fucking Mark Zuckerberg FUCK
Just don’t try to recruit far right domestic terrorists, they never kill billionaires, mainly it’s children & working class Americans that are targeted by those cucks.
My concern's practicality of it. So much of that wealth's abroad that it'd just enrich global billionaires. I'm not even sure that helps with corruption. And while killing all world's billionaires would still be a lesser evil than letting them be, I don't think that's happening any time soon.
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A small abattoir can slaughter 300 pigs per hour, so between 1-3 hours would be all the time needed.
if the well-being of your society can be fixed with the extrajudicial murder of a small number of people, that's an indicator of a deeply unhealthy society with failed institutions because power should never be that concentrated. We can argue how small that number could be but 1000 out of 330m...
we'd need to essentially declare a group effort driven purge day to meet this goal
currently, in the US, we avg 58 homicides/day & working at the average rate would take two and a half weeks
Like a Final Destination opening sequence
Yes, and extrajudicial murder is not actually a good solution to basically any problem. Even China doesn't do that, because it recognizes that this is no way to run a society and would alienate huge numbers of people.
Lopping off anyone with over $10 million just to be safe would be the work of a long weekend.
Might have to take a few of those on a case-by-case basis because I ain't gonna put Magic Johnson up against the wall, but it's not a bad idea in total.
If you don't approve of dealing with the problem that way, explain what we should do instead!
We kill like 5000 people a month just with health insurance denials. The numbers escalate pretty quickly when you consider any of these categories of social murder
Less than 800, actually. We could be done before brunch.
Bezos in zip ties would be so fun to watch
That's only 5000 liters of blood, rookie numbers
🧊[Octavia] Yes, please!
You see people all the time ready to throw Palestinians or trans men and women under the bus as part of some greatest good/lesser evil argument, but when it’s the under 1,000 billionaires versus the well more than that annually who needlessly die from homelessness, suddenly every life is sacred.
"Meaningful political action is horrifyingly popular on both the left and right."
Everybody throws around the 'billionaire' word without considering the much larger crowd flying under the radar screen with between $10 million and $999 million. Case in point: It's widely discussed Jeffrey Epstein was fabulously wealthy with his own island, and he wasn't even a billionaire!
Wow! I thought it would be so many more That's about 8 hours of work. I hear that's a fair amount of hours to work.
I don't see how it inflicts more collateral damage than what we got going on right now. it's like way way less collateral damage by several orders of magnitude.
“I’m not calling for an increase in violence, I’m just saying we redirect it at the billionaires”
