Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini

A private equity business owner just became willingly elected as prime minister of Canada. Mussolini and Hitler have been resurrected.

*That we know of

If something like this ever did happen IRL, the vast majority of the world would cheer.

#8 Michael Bloomberg: $40 billion

#7 Larry Ellison: $43.6 billion

#6 Mark Zuckerberg: $44.6 billion

#5 Jeff Bezos: $45.2 billion

#4 Carlos Slim Helu: $50 billion

#3 Warren Buffett: $60.8 billion

#2 Amancio Ortega: $67 billion

#1 Bill Gates: $75 billion

I don't even buy these are the richest men bc I'm sure the richest men in the world would: A. never be named in a magazine list like this without suing, B. Likely have more wealth and assets that are unreported than they do reported. Also, didn't Peter Thiel recently become a trillionaire?

Regardless, I do just want to point out what most of the richest men in the world have in common, is a strong belief in natural heirarchies and social darwinism.

This list is supposed to exemplify survival of the fittest, or those "chosen by God" to rule over the rest of us...? I can't even imagine how sickly the men on the real list would look.

The masses wouldn't be able to function without them guiding the way and making the rules...

Does this look like a list of men put together by God or nature? As in, survival of the fittest rules where nature allowed this or God considered every human being on earth before selecting who he ordained worthy of steering the reigns of society, and this list was the final result?

... They're all in one room?

A guillotine is unnecessarily complicated.

... and also too humane.

The world's wealthiest eight men control net wealth of $426 billion, based on estimates from Forbes.

Took me until this sentence to realize this article was from 2017. Muskrat is getting close to that all by himself - I saw something the other day that had him around $350 billion.

I'm sure the numbers are much much worse than they were 8 years ago.

Yeah right. There would be 500 security guards and probably 1mln to get in.

It's just a matter of time before all that wealth flows down and everyone gets rich. Trust the system, it's working as intended.

Panels are in the wrong order. It should either be 3, 1, 2, 4 or 3, 2, 1, 4. These orders offer different feelings to the progression. Either way, you have to set the stage for the joke with 3.

In the words of some CEOs... "Execution is everything"

The best part is you can lure them there by inviting them to give a Ted talk how they made so much money and the rest of the world needs to learn from them as an example.

Why limit it to 8? Why not just take the most recent Forbes rich list as a list of undesirables

https://dbkrupp.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/