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[-] amtwon@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Agree with OP... societal/systemic changes would be great, but I'd never wish death on anyone.

I know it's pretty common on here, but rhetoric about killing people, guillotine memes, etc skeeve me out

[-] CoderKat@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Agreed. Personally, all I wanna do is take the vast majority of their money and redistribute it to society. They can keep a few million to fuck off with. I don't really care about them beyond that. They largely only have power imbalance because of their money. I don't think anyone should be a billionaire (or frankly more than about $10M USD or so -- which is currently enough to comfortably live your life without having to work, yet isn't utterly crazy).

Once they no longer are so rich, why would I care about them anymore? I'm not one to try and get revenge or anything, and I think that's a harmful way of thinking. I just want society to suck less and fixing the massive wealth imbalance is a big part of that.

If we were in a position where "eat the rich" could be taken literally, then "seize their current and future wealth" is just as achievable.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Look, no one wishes death first thing, obviously people would prefer it if billionaires suddenly became good people and gave up their money willingly. Obviously people would prefer it if the government made extreme sanctions or taxes against them. There are many things people want but time and time again they don't get them. There's really no just way to have that much more money and power than everyone else. They're modern day monarchs in all but title. Policy makers may have the power but they're forced to stay in line and not deviate too far from what the billionaires want. When the solution to better humanity is "you should share more, you've got more than you could ever possibly imagine needing" it's no surprise that the people with the power to keep those folks out of office do so. That's why we see such mild criticisms from so many parties and even an embrace of the rich by the American "left".

[-] Noughmad@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Well, it's complicated. Ideally, I would make them all millionaires. But, they made it so that this is more difficult than murdering them.

[-] necrxfagivs@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

How do you think any societal change have been possible? Always (and only) through violence.

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