Bespoke:
Guillotine economics
You behead the ultra-rich (I'm thinking hectomillionaires and above) and all of their worst enablers and then divide their resources between those that need them the most, with anything too big for one person to own becoming public property.
Can we at least give them the chance to willingly forfeit their extreme wealth before resorting to decapitation. I imagine many would still refuse, but I feel it's ethically necessary to provide them with a choice.
Sure. Everything that's happened since the industrial revolution if not earlier says they're not going to, but fair's fair I guess 🤷
Alright. Well give then time equal to the time local labour laws allow for firing.
So for instance US at-will states, no warning for the rich. In countries with better labour laws, it will be longer.
Anyone billionaire pretending they don't know the Earth is fucked because of a system in which like them can exist is just feigning ignorance.
Hectomillionaire isn't ultrarich. 8 million is pocket change for Musk or Arnault.
EDIT: hecto = 100 🤦
You're thinking octo. Hectomillionaire is 100 millions which, while less than a thousandth of what the two richest in the world have, is still resource hoarding obscene enough to be inherently detrimental to society as a whole.
I have a friend who's pretty wealthy and they feel pretty guilty about it. They're looking at buying a house, spending the vast majority of their inherited wealth in the process. My belief is that whilst being able to do this is in a huge level of privilege, they're much more likely to be dining than on the menu at an "eat the rich" party. And honestly, that baffles me somewhat — it highlights just how obscenely wealthy the ultra rich are if my wealthy friend is nowhere in the same ballpark
We're going to need a bigger stick, though.
Nah, we just need more people with sticks.
Zerg rush.
Theodore Roosevelt believed in pinñataconomics. That trust buster always carried a big stick.
Speaking softly doesn't really work in a misinformation overload world, though, so let's only follow half of his advice 😁
Honestly I'll take the blood as payment.
Keep that shit in a bag as a trophy on my top shelf.
Write "Fucked around and found out" on it.
And other goodies!
Trickle down economics works perfectly fine. It's just that billionaires are subhuman and so are further down than the rest of us.
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