Been saying it for years. Sadly there are too many at the bottom mesmerized by the elite propaganda telling them "you can also be like me, if you work hard", as if they earned billions that way without any dirty tactics along the way, and despite even with success still needing such tactics to take more and more.
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2025
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Every person who kills a billionaire does so in self defense.
Figuratively, but yes, I agree.
actually yes, figuratively is the word that i should have used.
The (original) Nazis are rightfully considered monsters for killing millions of people in the 20th century. What will any survivors of the incineration of earth consider the billionaires that are killing BILLIONS of us for greed?
never, next question
We should start call them hoarders instead. They are just as obsessed and wierd about it.
Right? Billionaires should be seen in the same light as someone with a house full of cats and feces. Hoarding for the sake of hoarding is mental illness. Instead: we put them on Forbes and look to them as royals. Kill the rich.
Literal parasites who consume everything and offer nothing in return
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Not a fan fat shaming that gets bundled in with that but basically. It's the vice of greed, plain and simple.
Like imagine rolling up to a potluck and just buying the table, leaving naught but a bag of chips for the rest of the party. Even if you can afford it, it's still a crime against your fellows.
Each billionaire is an individual problem AND allowing billionaires to grab and monopolize so many resources and even looking up to them is a systemic problem.
Without the systemic problem which is Capitalism and the shallow, greedy present day society, billionaires would be treated the same as other hoarders - seen mentally derranged and stopped from going too far for their own good and the good of others.
There will always be nutters, but if the social system we have wasn't broken, this very specific kind of nutter would never be allowed to cause the damage they do with their mental disease.
I think what you mean to say is capitalism is cancer. There are books written on the subject.
Luigi knew how to cure this type of cancer. It's not rocket science but nobody with the means and opportunity is willing to do the right thing for humanity.
There is no goal other than to keep taking. They couldn’t stop even if they wanted to. It only ends when life becomes so miserable for enough people that violence becomes the only answer
At this point it's not violence, it's self defence.
You're right about the similarities, but having similarities is not what "literally" means. That word is so fucking overused.
you forgot what ties together your thought: they are destroying the planet.
they are literally killing the host.
Better prep the patient for surgery
Corporations with more than 1 billion are more of a cancer than individual billionaires
This was pretty much the point Agent Smith was making to Morpheus in his ‘virus’ speech.
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