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You say "run out" as if we'd miss them
Billionaires are a finite resource once they're gone it will take decades for them to return
"Now you listen to me. While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a naysayer and hatchetman in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I'll gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method... is love. I love you Sheriff Truman."
Albert's path is a strange and difficult one.
Doesn't work like that. It's more like fighting a Hydra. If a Billionaire worth $50B dies, like 10 Children are gonna inherit $5B each. So we would have even more Billionaires afterwards.
I don't think people would mind having more Billionaires to kill.
How about "the current billionaire class" instead?
Because you're right, but the initial comparison is still something worth saying and I don't mind getting pedantic.
They said "2 months". So you keep doing the work within that time, until the fortune is diluted enough to drop below 1B per person
Sounds like an ever evolving target practice to me.
From my experience playing Crusader Kings 2 and 3, gavelkind's a bitch.
Splitting your enemy's demesne amongst their successors gives you more but weaker enemies (and sometimes some friends), and leads to infighting and chaos amongst them.
Nine times out of ten murdering an enemy with lots of children leaves you better off than not murdering them.
(Of course, though, this scales inversely to the number of successors, so if there's only one or two proceed only if their stats are lower than your enemy's, or if it'll still be a few years before they come of age.)
But the wealth would still be less centralized and they would be easier to kill for a while or have yo spend a larger percent on security its progress just because one virtuous heroic act doesn't immediately save everything doesn't mean doing a little bit every day won't make the world better because if you kill those five kids and kill their 25 heirs then you've just cracked the no billionaires mark! So its a couple years not a couple months the world would still be saved
Sounds like work worth doing, a little extra time doesn't sound like a deal breaker to me.
We'll all be out of work eventually. Nothing but time to hunt billionaires.
That just means we aren't done yet. Besides, quite a few of them would refuse their fortunes if it meant the went on the Most Wanted List.
The difference is that each head would be weaker and weaker until it's just a bunch of snakes like the rest of us.
All we want is wealth distribution.
The more the family tree gets eliminated, perhaps those names further down the branches understand they don't want to die and do the right thing.
Younger generations want to end the progressive familial abuse patter of previous generations. This is no different.
It's like money is a cursed artefact.
In theory though impossible in practice:
If we halved the wealth of the current richest person.
Equally divided that wealth to the 50% poorest household.
And repeated from their till there are no more Billionaires.
Musk would end up at 800 mil after having his wealth divided 10 times. While people who had no money to start now have around 50K
(Broad numbers, Not an accurate calculation)
That's still good, though.
If the richest people were only 1000x wealthier than the poorest... wow.
Currently, the richest people could spend the entirety of every penny an average person would make from the day that person was born to the day that person died every single day and still not run out of money before that person died. That's an entire person's fiscal existence spent every day for their entire life and it wouldn't even make a dent.
So, yeah, I'd take 1000:1
This is why I think we need to start talking about wealth caps. I don't understand why the left hasn't jumped on that.
Wealth cap is a great idea, but suffers from the same issue as "tax the rich," in that how do you do either of those things when the ultrawealthy are the ones in political power? they generally aint gonna cap or tax themselves
History has the inevitable conclusion for when that happens already written within its pages.
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It's violence, and the death of those in charge at the time.
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the username should be stevens_good_advice
You beat us to it lol
That is a fun fact!
So what you're saying is that if you made a law so that for every child who was shot in a school shooting, a billionaire was also shot, we'd be guaranteed to solve a major problem in America within two months.
Such a law would inevitably encourage violence against children, so, not a great plan
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Worth a shot, pun intended.
Challenge Accepted!
C'mon USA, I believe in you!
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