How many more years of these news stories do I have to read before we actually do something about this?
I’m so fucking sick of this happening constantly.
The sad thing is we’ll keep reading stories like this until we die. I can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel and I’m tired of being that guy talking about this issue.
We have to stop voting for rich or wanna-be-rich business people. It’s the only way. Combined votes for the best of the worst to eliminate the tyrants, then vote out the wealth focused. Can’t believe that’s the situation we are in.
Voting alone will not get us out of this situation. Maybe implementing rank choice of voting might do it. I just don’t see good solutions because the politicians were all about sold anyway it doesn’t matter which one gets voted in, voters never get the final say.
There’s very little we can do. Even the ‘eat the rich’ idea isn’t very viable since they can hide in their nuclear war protection bunkers surrounded by armed security.
Cool they can be buried in their tombs and we can just get back to ignoring their existence. Sounds like a win actually.
Sure, after their security people slaughter everyone who sends them in there. Are you willing to face down a bunch of machine guns fired by well-trained mercenaries in heavy armor? Do you think Zuckerberg has any less in his Hawaii survival bunker?
Why do we need in their bunker? Seriously let’s just scare them in there watch them seal the doors and then push a boulder onto their vents and doorways.
Boom modern pharaohs buried with all their wealth and followers and then we can just garden up here. Why do we need anything in their bunker unless they end their world with themselves in which case ok it’s all over.
I see nothing wrong with the wealthy locking themselves in a box in the ground and leaving the whole world to the rest of us.
I’m just worried about who they’ll kill on their way to the box.
No need, we live in an era of drone warfare. Human soldiers aren’t even in the top 50% of most effective combat units anymore. Armed security is all good and well but a machinegun emplacement isn’t going to do a whole lot about 500 incoming quadcopters carrying thermite payloads. You don’t even need to destroy the whole bunker, just the entrance, then roll up a couple of Caterpillars and put them under a 12 foot dirt hill. And if the drones don’t cut it, say the compound has EM shielding of some sort that causes them to stop functioning (a feature that many modern actual militaries don’t even have), a private plane shoveling a couple hundred pounds of explosives out of its cargo storage from cruising altitude would probably be a suitable replacement.
No compound of any sort is infinitely defensible from superior numbers. Zuck/Musk/Bezos/Etc may be rich but their reach is not limitless. Just like how civilians aren’t going to want to rush down a mercenary emplacement, pretty soon all the available mercenary forces are going to be thinking twice about signing on to defend a compound where disposable drones like to drop random pipe bombs from the sky every other day.
In an end of the world scenario, where safety exists only inside the bunkers, the bunkers will fall, and swiftly. In a scenario where safety does exist outside the bunkers but everything generally sucks, and the Rich inside the bunkers are still able to be seen or have news posted about them, the bunkers will fall eventually. In a scenario where the Rich disappear into the bunkers and are never heard from again, fuck 'em, mission accomplished, we don’t even need to raid the tombs.
Forever. If people haven’t figured it out by now, they never will.
The economy is a fucking joke.
always has been
It’s put very simply here:
The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes to $869bn (£681.5bn) since 2020, while the world’s poorest 60% – almost 5 billion people – have lost money.
… the world’s billionaires were $3.3tn (£2.6tn) richer than in 2020, and their wealth had grown three times faster than the rate of inflation.
Divided you beg - the Republican way. United you bargain - the Democrats way. Keep voting Republican and keep making the rich richer.
It will trickle down any moment now. Any moment.
Something d-o-o economics. Voo-doo economics.
Frye… Frye… Frye…
Taxes or guillotines. Pick one.
Guillotines and then tax the next ones.
Why not both?
This is such a good visualization of big numbers and big bank accounts.
It’s also a good way to really see the bull shit argument that it’s unfair to tax the wealthy at a higher rate. Even if they get taxed at 90% (which I don’t think will happen in my lifetime) they still will have enough money for them and their decedents to live a lavish lifestyle. And that extra money could really make America into the country that it pretends to be.
But, they would really hate it.
This is from 2021 so remember that the biggest boxes there need to be twice as big now. Your box, however, is the same size or smaller.
That makes me infurious rex.
People think for some reason working themselves to death will move them upwards. Fuck this stupid system.
What about those that are being forcefully coerced into doing so? I’m broke, and I’ll be working until the day I die, but it sure as hell isn’t because I want to.
That is understandable. I meant mostly people who say you can grind your way out of poverty through hardwork. Like work-life balance isn’t important.
I’m sure electing a billionaire will fix things right up in the US.
No actual billionaires are in the election.
How about we stop calling it their fucking money. It’s inconceivable that someone can look at what has got to be at least 50% of all wealth ever made by humankind and say, “this is mine and just mine”. That isn’t what sane rational people think
Having that amount of money makes you lose all rational thinking my dude.
fuck capitalism
Elon Musk, Bernard Arnault, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison and Mark Zuckerberg
Coincidentally, those same 5 are 2024’s “who’s who of sociopathic shitheads”, a title they’ve earned with lifetimes of dedication to the craft
Kill them.
Wait Musk is still such a strong first place? I thought with twitter bombing, people starting to dislike Tesla, general weird behavior, he was losing quite a bit? I’m probably way out of touch but isn’t someone catching uo to him?
Rich assets grow exponentially. They will exceed government budgets if they haven’t yet. Then, they will have far bigger budget than governments.
Maybe the world will all become North Korea.
Just capitalism working as intended, nothing to see here, please keep walking.
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That took a second, good one, lol
You guys ready to eat em yet?
space billionaires. well defined, much more fun.
Yes, but I wouldn’t eat a rich person. All the chemicals and drugs in the meat. Gross. We need to just cull the rich.
Eat the rich
