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Cross-posted from "Evident" by @gedaliyah@lemmy.world in !tumblr@lemmy.world
Genuinely of the belief half the reason people permit billionares is mathematical iliteracy.
If you aren't filled with murderous rage at the idea of that much wealth being held back from those who need it you either don't understand the scale or don't have empathy.
I mean, the prognosis is correct. But I'm still waiting to hear the remedy.
"Billionaires keep surrounding themselves with armed sociopaths every time they feel threatened" doesn't explain how to get through the cushion of Joe Rogan fans shielding Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk from any kind of consequence for their criminality and callous obliteration of life and property.
The cushion of Joe Rogan fans feel powerful by association, because they have no idea what actual power actually feels like. This is what happens when people's power to affect their own destinies is gone; they'll seek out the feeling of power in the easiest place it can be found.
Yep. Gotta give them something in their actual lives.
And that's why building mutual aid networks is so important. When people don't have to sell themselves to acquire their basic necessities, they gain back the power over their own destiny, preventing them from turning into sycophants out of desperation.
Those networks are far more effective as genuonely mutual aid though, when it's not just a second power structure that while not useless is only alternates for the last couple links in a long supply chain.
Creating new sources, replacing links farther up, and showing people their own agency to reduce alienation is such a big deal in making them capable independent peers, rather than just tools with a handle you can hold.
I actually disagree with getting rid of billionaires or their ability to lobby governments; billionaires being able to lobby governments in a democracy is actually integral to the continued functioning efficacy of any country.
Instead, America should become a direct democracy where people vote directly on the issues and the billionaires can lobby the entire population instead.
Also lobbying isn't bribery; here's a reddit post explaining how unlike bribes which seeks to influence people in power, lobbying merely seeks to influence people in power:
Apparently unlike bribery where if you bribe them, they can decide not to side with you and you can simply not bribe them again, whereas with lobbying if you lobby them and they decide not to side with you, you can instead not lobby them again. Apparently with lobbying you can't ask for your money back or threaten them because they didn't do what you wanted, unlike bribery where instead you can't ask for your money back or threaten them because they didn't do what you wanted.
Now it might seem on the face of it that these are entirely the same things, but lobbyists assure me they're not!
(I noticed some people here really can't tell sarcasm, so for the record: yes, this is sarcasm; don't be libby or I'll lobby Dobby to lobby a libby at your snobby lobby)
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that opening got me lol.
I've been hitting people with the following: Imagine I give you $100,000 today, tomorrow and every day thereafter. How long until you get tired of getting $100,000 each day? One year? Ten years? How long until money is meaningless to you? How long do you think it would take to reach the billion dollars? 27.4 years.
A billion dollars is 10,000 $100,000s. Some people have hundreds of billions of dollars. It is an absolutely astronomical and stupid number. No one should ever even come anywhere near that level of money. It's way too much power.
Abolishing the billionaire class is proving difficult. Let's just skip to abolishing money - two birds, one stone.
Oooh they won't like that
I just made 1 of their money equal to 0 of their money
We can do both at once. I think making an example of them woukd be really cathartic.
Look we gotta recruit more Luigi’s .
was the guy he killed a billionaire? i thought it was "just" a top manager of the company
Idk but we gotta give the ppl what they want !
