• krashmo@lemmy.world
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      24 days ago

      You’re not wrong, but billionaires are just as easy to kill now as they ever were. If you can’t take the money away from the planet destroying psychopath, take the planet destroying psychopath away from the money.

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        24 days ago

        Killing them doesn’t give you their resources though. If you managed to get away with it, you will have to spend money staying anonymous and some board of directors will use the company value to enrich the next asshole.

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          You don’t need their money. You need them not to have it. Do it enough times and whoever ends up with it will make more responsible choices with it even if nothing else changes.

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            24 days ago

            I know that, but we’re talking about incentives to rob the rich, which in the best case would include a robinhood style give to the poor.

            We’re clearly need to eliminate wealth inequality, but I’m skeptical killing a few billionaires will help.

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      This is why we used to let government deal with overgrown wealth. They’re the only ones with the power to stand up to robber barons. It’s too bad that this time they bought the government.

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      They redistributed it away from us, they can redistribute it back. Democrats decided it’s been 80 or 100 years, so we forgot they were never on our side, **remind them we remember. VOTE. THEM. OUT. PRIMARY. RIOT. **