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This is why billionaires shouldn't exist they are treasonous
They should exist, but we are not utilizing them correctly. Once someone has reached a billion dollar networth then they are thrown a big party and then sacrificed to a valcono. I believe this would curb emissions and fix climate change.
Maybe we just seize all their assets, nationalize them and make them start over with nothing. Call it new game +.
They just need to make a point system. The incredibly wealthy don't care about money itself, those are already just points to them. So once you get to say 100 M, you get a trophy saying you won capitalism. After that amount 99% is taxed, you get a penny on the dollar. But all of that taxed money gets you Capitalism points. Capitalism points have no real value and can only be exchanged/traded/gambled with other winners of capitalism. Those with most points will be published each month in the top 100. And the top 10 each year get the prestigous title if honorary economic leader. They can get a medal and a pat on the back by the president.
You can also donate extra money for more capitalism points at a 10:1 exchange rate to get people to play the game even harder and further drive down wealth.
(I believe there are slightly less than 10,000 people in the US who would currently get their capitalism trophy. There are >140,000 people worth more than $50M, is 100 to high?)
Oh and the 100M amount is pegged to minimum wage. Any increase to the capitalism cap has to be matched to the same percent increase to minimum wage.
Just too much power for one person. Even if they're not in charge of a global internet provider, your average billionaire can singlehandedly affect the lives of millions of people (employees, customers, bystanders) with no democratic oversight at all. It's just not something that should exist.
You: Want to abolish billionaires because they do not support the war enough.
Me: Want to abolish billionaires because they exploit and oppress the working class.
We are not the same.
I want to abolish them because of both - checkmate
Patsoc detected.
Please enlighten me what a Patsoc is - I am really curious.
"Patriotic socialist", someone who claims to be a champion of the working class, but is actually more of nationalist. They only care about the working class of a certain nationality or racial group, and are generally bigoted in their view towards marginalized groups. Real socialists are internationalist. You wanting to get rid of Musk, because he's not sufficiently gung-ho about a war fought between capitalists on the back of workers, implies you consider the national interest more important than the lives of workers. This is anti-worker class collaborator shit, which is what patsocs are really.
What the fuck are you even talking about? Russia is throwing thousands of „working class“ lives away, since it wants to expand its territory in aggressive moves since decades. They are forcing Ukraine to defend itself and yes, those are also working class people.
So you, as a good socialist, are probably on the barricades because of this unprovoked attack on the Ukrainian working class. How are you fighting to defend them from getting killed? Please don’t answer something in the likes of „Ukraine should give up“ because then everyone would only see that you are actually advocating the Murder of the Ukrainian people.
Apt username
Yeah, because of that. This isn't the gotcha you think it is, you aren't uncovering a double standard. People deem helping Ukraine righteous, and helping Russia treasonous, this is no secret.
What does this race bait have to do with Elon Musk?
Russia invaded Ukraine. You know.. like the Nazis did in WW2.
Russia is playing the part of the Nazis.
Wait, and how exactly are any Ukrainians on Russian territory in order to paint blood swastikas on their women after killing them? They are defending their country, meaning they stay mainly in their country. Most haven't had set foot in Russia since the start of the war. So what are the Russian women doing in Ukraine?
You know, this sounds a lot like Russian propaganda trying to make Ukrainians seem like fascists while they are not the ones invading sovereign nations.
Their leader is a Jew, you know that right?
So even if what you say were true, do you think it would have happened if Russia didn't illegally invade a sovereign nation?
Tankie's gonna tankie. This guy thinks he's uncovered some ultimate hypocrisy which justifies Russia's invasion. Like, America has neo-Nazi's, therefore, it's totally chill for Russia to use boxcutters to emasculate POWs (war crime), or execute civilians (war crime), or rape (war crime) civilians, or deport Ukrainian children to Russia (war crime).
141 of 193 countries is not 10-15% of the worlds population
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/02/united-nations-russia-ukraine-vote
well 141 of 193 countries think that Russia is the aggressor and shall stop its war immediately:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/02/united-nations-russia-ukraine-vote
I am too lazy to check how much of the world’s population that accounts for - but it is hardly the 10-15 percent you have brought up
ps: there were only 5 votes against this resolution - Russia being one of… North Korea as well
We live in a society
Quit spewing the narrative that only few people know that Russia is the Aggressor - most of the world thinks so: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/02/united-nations-russia-ukraine-vote