Billionaires shouldn’t exist.

Why should billionaires get to vote? They live in an alternate reality.

Talk like this is almost like they are BEGGING for the guillotines to start rolling out.

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 trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

Billionaires are such fucking parasites...

I used to work at Shopify. Wouldn't recommend it.

Under fire? Why do you guys keep missing?

I actually find his idea of weighed voting based on tax paid a good idea. But then percentage wise based on both income and wealth. So if you pay 2% tax you get 2 votes, if you pay 50% you get 50 votes.

Awwww too bad billionaires don't / barely pay taxes. No votes for those arrogant rich assholes. Now we can vote to arrest billionaires who don't pay taxes, imprison them for tax evasion and Epstein files and take away their wealth which can be used to improve quality of life of the general public.

When you said "under fire" I thought you meant literally, as in there is a squad of soldiers currently training their machine guns on the lad's home.

Has he considered that voting is free, but bullets are cheap? If he were smart, he'd be wary of taking the ballot box out of the equation.

Why is everyone that has worked on Ruby on Rails a total and utter douchebag? should be studied how that one project seems to have spawned some of the biggest bigoted asshole douches in the tech industry.

Lutke is a moron just like DHH is a moron and surprise surprise they're both from RoR.

Under fire? Put him in the fire.

He’s right though. The oligarchs having to own news and social media to get the election outcomes they want, and then also having to lobby those politicians to enact the right policies is incredibly inefficient. It would be simpler if the politicians were unelected and simply payrolled employees of the owner class.

Hang em

My brother was one of the first 10 or so hires of Shopify so seeing the little company grow into the massive company it is now in the 2010s made me like this guy a lot. He seemed to treat the team with respect and recognized/rewarded them for their work.

Then he totally ended up being yet another shitty billionaire (MAGA supporter iirc).

Thankfully, my brother quit before Toby's dickishness was made obvious, and so he remains the nicest, down-to-earth guy that I know.

Billionaire people shouldn't be able to vote.

They have power through capital already, they don't need more.

It used to be that only property owners could vote. The laws all favoured the property owners.

"Poors under fire for thinking that killing billionaires should be legal".

No one should vote. Representative democracy by popular vote isn't an effective way to administrate a nation.

Bring back qualified sortition.

This is the same company that simps for PP and MAGA

Better idea - only the middle class can vote.

Every single billionaire admits they've been lucky. They aren't special, they're just lucky to have more than their fair share.

I do understand the frustration with the fact that people who are working have less time to be politically active than retirees, but I don't really see any way around it. The flip side is that a lot of great volunteers retire into community service and have a lot of extra time to help the community because they no longer work.