Another fun fact, billionaires and their lifestyles emmit more carbon pollution in 90 minutes than the average person in their lifetimes.
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.
Fun fact, if I were to inherit the wealth of a billionaire family member who was shot in public I’d get philanthropic real fast!
Many people say this. However of those who talk the talk, barely any ever walk the walk.
However I think if you are born an heir to a billionaire, you'd lack the perspective which might foster selfless philanthropy.
I'd like to think that if someone from the working class would randomly get such money they would. But it still seems unlikely.
self preservation isn't a selfless motive, but if it results in philanthropy then that's a win.
Exactly! If billionaires were put in a a position where they need to stop being billionaires and distribute their wealth or else people will kill them, they'd distribute their wealth real fucking fast
I would assume most of Elon Musk’s kids are not a fan of Billionaires.
Also, he has a lot of kids now... money tied up over inheritance squabbles and civil cases getting redistributed to lawyers and court systems. I imagine more kids will come out of the woodwork too claiming a piece of the inheritance pie
Really one only ever heard his one daughter speak out against him, since she's been a frequent target for his anti-trans bullshit.
I haven't heard any of the other kids speak up against him on any topic.
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
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.
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.
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
In total, you'd only need four numbers:
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
More numbers for people to play with. "Since 1999, 440 people have been killed and 1,243 injured in shooting events at K-12 schools."
https://www.security.org/blog/a-timeline-of-school-shootings-since-columbine/
If I'm reading the hypothetical right, it's saying what if in a year, the numbers were reversed... 323 $hootings with 69 deaths, versus 1 school shooting with 1 death.
Would gun laws change, would tax laws change? Etc etc. Would minimum wage change?
Purely hypothetical of course
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
“There were 2,526 gun deaths in 2022 among 1- to 17-year-olds, averaging to nearly 7 per day.”
48,204 is total gun deaths.
These are both horrific figures and in no way am I intending to diminish either.
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