There Lemmy goes inciting violence again. Why is it considered okay if it is the right kind of subversion? 99.9% of people are rational but that leaves millions that take this as a calling.
So maybe don’t advocate for murder. Additionally, don’t suggest it as a solution if your views do not represent the majority opinion. That’s literally called radical extremism.
The deaths from people starving, becoming homeless, being denied medical care, or devastated by climate change, all so that wealthy capitalists don’t risk becoming workers again, are also premeditated.
Well, everyone is entitled to a fair trial. They are not guilty or eligible for capital punishment until that’s completed and found guilty by a jury of their peers. Try again, extremist.
It wouldn’t be fair, they’re billionaires. This is the whole problem, and why people start talking about eating them (which I don’t really understand) or chopping their heads off. If we were civilised, we wouldn’t have billionaires, so let’s not be too coy about this.
It isn’t like billionaires constantly ruin the life’s of people and are only in the position they are by stepping over the corpses and suffering of others OH WAIT
Just FYI: Elon musk inherited his wealth literally from an emerald mine. Jeff Bezos is known for his current atrocities against his employees. Bernard Anault is in kahoots with genocidal dictators. You don’t become a billionaire without violating human rights.
Trickle down is a political term. Economists know that wealth trickles up. It is only moved back down with taxes. Non-economists have a saying for this, “the rich get richer”. Economists have a formula for this: r > g
And inheritance is one of the biggest source of inequalities hence why Piketty proposes a massive tax on inheritance to be redistributed equally as a universel basic inheritance to young people. There are hard core scientific papers behind it but this is a popularized article I have found: goodmenproject.com/…/fairer-taxes-and-inheritance…. Problem is inheritance is an extremely touchy topic, most people have the deeply rooted instinct to give everything to there children and can’t think rationally about it.
He also owns all of the grocery stores, food distributors, trucking companies, farms, laborers, and politicians to remove safety laws and taxes concerning all of those, for a better analogy.
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