• Bizarroland@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    I mean I’m not trying to start anything but ever so often it crosses my mind that there are roughly 500 people that if we, the other 8 billion people on the planet, captured those 500 people, executed them, and divided their wealth among us evenly, would improve the quality of life for what 4 to 6 billion people so much that it would change the world in a single night.

    500 people for 8 billion.

    There’s a phrase that comes to mind, “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.”

    Honestly I’m too chickenshit to be the hangman but if we all got together and decided that it was time I wouldn’t blame you.

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      9 months ago

      Every day a billionaire wakes up and chooses to not improve the lives of millions of people is another day that they are choosing the be the scum of the earth.

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      9 months ago

      There is a reason those people fight really hard to avoid class consciousness from taking place. Divide and conquer works, the class war is so one sided it’s not even funny.

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        9 months ago

        You make a good point. Instead of killing the top 500 we could just take the top 1,000 billionaires’ money and resources in excess of 1 billion dollars.

        I wonder if we did that just in America what would they call that? It’s not quite a coup but it’s kind of a coup.

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    9 months ago

    We need a few thousand private submarines to save the world