Seriously though, don't do violence.
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I'd like to see oligarchs have ceilings and pay enough into society that they aren't oligarchs. Then they don't need to die.
But if they're going to use their money and power to keep us under their thumb, I'll welcome any catalyst that brings on change to the advantage of the people.
That is impossible as long as we live in a capitalist society...
The entire purpose of the state is to protect and secure the power of oligarchs.
I fear we've let it progress too far. Privatized goods and production can work and have for many many years. We've let the corporations infiltrate and own our government. They've destroyed the checks and balances. Our governing body is nothing more than an elaborate social game.
When they ruled that corporations were people (1978) and could spend money on ballot initiatives, that should have been a huge red flag. The 1907 law that banned corporate involvement in government was a pillar that kept us mostly honest.
The purpose of the state was never intended to protect and secure the oligarchs, we let the oligarchs make that the purpose.
Depends on how ypu define "works"... not very long ago, poor people were used as a slave labor force for profit. Today, we use prisoners for slave labor. Earliest, we used literal slaves.
That's fair, I'm still falls under the same concept of laws and guardrails but point taken.