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  • MithranArkanere@lemmy.world
    1982·
    7 天前

    Well, that is a bit excessive.
    Rabid dogs are put down because there is no cure for their disease, and they cannot be controlled, and their very existence will bring harm to others and…

    Nevermind.

  • deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    46·
    6 天前

    Not the first nor the last time Burr has made similar comments on the billionaires place in American politics. He is right though.

  • RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca
    22·
    5 天前

    Billionaires should not exist. You don’t get to be a billionaire without exploiting people - for that matter once you get over about 10M you’re probably stepping on people, or exploiting systems, in order to continue growing your wealth. And why, exactly? It’s a sickness that gets worse the richer someone gets. It’s been studied and confirmed that people who have excessive wealth convince themselves that they deserve it, they earned it individually, and that they are special and more valuable than others. So instead of riding off into the sunset, they feed their addiction by buying outsized and unearned power in order to shape the laws so that they can make more money. Just fuck off already - you won at capitalism, now get the fuck out of the way and stop screwing over everyone else and making our lives miserable.

    Beyond 100M we should just take it all for the state. 100% tax rate. If you want to keep earning beyond that, then great, you will have the glory of contributing to the public good.

    But since billionaires have convinced idiots to advocate against the idiots’ own interest, and argue that the billionaires can’t be constrained in any way, then this will never happen in the current social context. So next best thing is to do as Bill says. Put the fear of God into them.

  • Dezzillion@lemmy.world
    55·
    6 天前

    CEOs could maintain control of society while avoiding bad press simply by providing people with what they need—living wages, healthcare, and secure retirement plans. They could still rule while ensuring a fairer system. BUT THEY WONT.

  • schizolol9@lemy.lolEnglish
    38·
    6 天前

    Billionaire dont deserve our respect nor loyalty. They can go fuck themselves for all I care. Dogs however are loyal and love us unconditionally.😂

  • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world
    903·
    6 天前

    Imagine if we gave hoarders the same status we give wealthy people.

    Like you’re invited over for dinner.

    You get to the door and ring the bell. They yell, “come in.” You push the door open against 10000 stacked news papers pushing back at you. You’re instantly hit with the smell of animal feces and urine. You unironically say, “wow, so decadent.” You climb over a pile of furniture and to get to a small clearing in with a couch and a coffee table covered in clutter. You tell your host, “So much stuff, I’m so jealous, you truly possess all the worlds material goods.” They heat up some discount canned ravioli on a hot plate because the only place in the entire house you can habitate is that small clearing with the couch.

    After you finish your fine dining experience you leave and you realize you never once saw any animals.

    Hoarding is a disease. Doesn’t matter if it’s useless garbage or the idea of a pile of money you’ll never use.

      • Crikeste@lemm.ee
        10·
        6 天前

        I don’t think you can come off as rational as he does while being partisan, you know? Plus, the left deserves some harsh words, to put it lightly lol

        • Raiderkev@lemmy.world
          41·
          6 天前

          If the last month has taught us anything, it’s whatever criticism you have of the left pales in comparison to the cesspool on the right.

          • Crikeste@lemm.ee
            31·
            6 天前

            Are you trying to prove my point? lol

            Where did I suggest ‘both sides are the same’, or anything close to that, that would warrant your response? All I said was the left deserves some criticism and the measuring sticks come out.

        • CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works
          11·
          5 天前

          I’m in a union that is about 70% women. A woman leads the union. Women get special delegates to the general meeting as do other minorities. You cannot criticize this without getting into some trouble.

          I’m a lefty and I cannot safely discuss this. It’s very frustrating.

      • acockworkorange@mander.xyz
        2·
        6 天前

        There’s a difference between “both siding” and criticizing everything you disagree regardless of where it comes from. Bill’s humor is that of a comically grumpy character.

    • oyo@lemm.ee
      12·
      7 天前

      I used to like him. Then I saw his post-election SNL monologue, which was dog shit. Now I think he’s ok, sometimes.

  • Zink@programming.dev
    591·
    6 天前

    Maybe we collectively need to recognize billionaires like they recognize their workers. I propose the following:

    1. “Becoming a billionaire” is still a thing that the most aggressive, ambitious sociopaths among us can aspire to. Because they and the broken people that idolize them will insist that great things cannot happen without the promise of great rewards. And obviously the only “reward” of any meaning to them is money.

    2. Once you are a billionaire, you get a nationally broadcast pizza party on CSPAN and we engrave your name into a plaque in some “hall of smart winners” somewhere in DC. You are declared a champion of the economy and the President shakes your hand and declares a one-time national day to be in your honor. Or they read your name during the superbowl that year or whatever. Your place in history is locked in.

    3. Assets and earnings in excess of 1 billion are seized and given to charity, or infrastructure, or healthcare or whatever. Used for the betterment of society. It should be done responsibly in a way that won’t ruin the assets, for example not liquidating billions in stock all at once.

    4. The government publishes a leaderboard every year that shows which Champions of the Economy™️ gave the most back to society that year in the form of excess earnings. And we all pretend that we’re REALLY impressed.

    They can have their on-paper status and their superficial adoration they hunger for. And they can even be stupidly rich by ANY standard.

      • HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world
        32·
        7 天前

        That’s the whole idea

        He’s planning to build a billionaire’s utopia where the poor live in debtor prisons and the ultra wealthy are treated like gods

        We’re in the endgame

        • Juice@midwest.social
          510·
          7 天前

          Nah probably not. There will be suffering and shocks but they’re like restructuring the economy here. They can’t like go back to feudalism, they don’t know how, and it isn’t possible. I just can never buy the apocalyptic framing, its not really evidence based, just Hollywood based.

          I do think you’re right about more prisons though, idk about debtors prisons yet but they are loving making people “illegal” and then doing horrible shit to them. If they can’t get enough people out of work to suppress wages how they want, then I bet you will see states arguing for their right to put debtors in jail. Although the expansion of online gambling into every part of our lives is kind of insane though, it could shift some dynamics.

          I think its more like the billionaires want this or they don’t care because they all know they’re gonna make the money. And we are gonna get screwed

            • Juice@midwest.social
              22·
              6 天前

              Or, maybe I am paying attention and we have different opinions? I gave a ton of leeway in my response, like I’m not saying you’re wrong, but there are limits on what they can accomplish, and I don’t like the apocalyptic framing for my personal analysis, but at the same time I do think there is something very intentional going on, a conspiracy here at the tail end of the neoliberal era by the ruling class to gain ground and power. So I’m not sure why you have to assert that I’m misinformed.

              If you think the ideas that you came up with in your head while staring at newsfeeds on your phone is the 100% objective truth, then more power to you. But IMO we could all benefit from good faith discussion and sharing ideas.

              Thanks for the link, another right wing freak to keep track of 😫

    • inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      6 天前

      What’s wild is he isn’t even that wealthy for a billionaire. Musk is in the hundreds of billions level whereas this creep is only in the single digits billions. Kinda weird tbh give how evil he is.