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[-] BluesF@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

If you assassinated or executed all the billionaires in the world nothing would change. They are just figureheads at the top of a big corporate mound. Yes they are absurdly personally rich, but the majority of that wealth is tied up in the value of companies that they own - the companies wouldn't go anywhere, and they would continue to do the same bullshit with or without a billionaire at the top.

[-] That_Mad_Scientist@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

I wish more people would understand this. If you remove the capitalists, capitalism will just make more. You need to remove capitalism, though obviously the capitalists will fight you on that and you may want to remove them from the system anyway. In either case, a lot of eat the rich discourse sounds like it's out of spite and not in search of actual solutions.

[-] BluesF@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Frankly the actual individuals at the top of the corporate pyramids are probably the least important elements in the whole fucked structure. If we disassemble the foundations, well, they have a long way to fall and we won't need to push.

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[-] zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure if all the billionaires were written in a death note then would-be billionaires would think twice. What's missing is repeated culling, then they would do more then think twice.

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[-] Muffi@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago

No. I want to murder big-business, but I fear it's already too late.

[-] Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Haha jk.... unless

[-] amtwon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Agree with OP... societal/systemic changes would be great, but I'd never wish death on anyone.

I know it's pretty common on here, but rhetoric about killing people, guillotine memes, etc skeeve me out

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[-] Cedarwood@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago

I want to eat them. Murder is merely a stepping stone

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[-] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Well, OP, maybe you ought to look into the life and times of Pu Yi, an imperial ruler who was allowed to live out his natural life after his oppressive dynasty was overthrown.

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[-] IronDonkey@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

The prevelance of the "murder billionaires" mindset and other generally negative attitudes and suggested violent solutions to everything - even more often and more exaggerated than reddit - is probably gonna chase me off lemmy. It's everywhere here. Even blocking all the explicitly political communities isn't enough to keep it away. This platform has a lot of growing up to do, and I'm not sure if it's gonna do it.

[-] gabe@literature.cafe 5 points 1 year ago

You wouldn’t last a day around gen Zers with that attitude bud.

[-] TinyPizza@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Glass half full, there's very little talk of murdering millionaires, so hypothetically things are looking up!

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