Let's gooooooo.
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Unfortunately billionaires rarely try to educate themselves about the world at all, let alone gather together in a single cramped room to be educated. Still, it's a nice idea.
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I mean, if we could easily change laws, we wouldn't need to murder a bunch of rich people, just seize any assets that exceed a certain limit (a wealth cap essentially) and call it a day. No bloodshed. Frankly, I'm not a fan of violence if there is a peaceful path.
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I was thinking about this the other day. If I had half a trillion dollars (like the guy who just bought the presidency) I would spend it building a city from scratch. A walkable/bikeable city with free public transportation. I don't have enough expertise to speak about affordable housing ideas, but with that amount of money I can pay someone to come up with some good regulations. Don't know why but that'd be my passion project.
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but if not, and they have two or more children ic tje amount gets split between them. Then you handlo those, and their children etc. It's financial homeopathy
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“There were 2,526 gun deaths in 2022 among 1- to 17-year-olds, averaging to nearly 7 per day.”
48,204 is total gun deaths.
This are both horrific figures and in no way am I intending to diminish either.
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In numbers: 2024 US school shootings second-highest since 1966
A school shooting in Wisconsin was the 323rd in the US this year. Here's what the data tells us about the shooters, the victims and which states are worst-hit.
(www.abc.net.au)
My mistake, I was only looking at the school shootings.
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The Adjusters go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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I would assume most of Elon Musk’s kids are not a fan of Billionaires.
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I noticed that finding a statistical breakdown is really difficult, so I went with a source I knew was reliable and still gave a number. Thank you for finding something more specific.
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I feel like that depends too. There's a ton of working class that dream of somehow becoming billionaires which is why they don't want to tax them.
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Narrator: it isn't
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That would involve people actually doing something rather than waiting for someone else.
And even then you guys would fall into conspiracy theories because you can't believe someone actually did something.
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𝕊𝕞𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕞 𝕎𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕔replied to [email protected] last edited by
Exactly! If billionaires were put in a a position where they need to stop being billionaires and distribute their wealth or else people will kill them, they'd distribute their wealth real fucking fast
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That is why MacKenzie Scott is the best living billionaire.
She did just that before all this mess started.
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Hells yeah! [email protected], [email protected].
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It's a prisoner's dilemma. Of fucking course we should revolt and save the world. Organizing that is not easy, especially when it makes you a target.
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Better use of the money is to strong arm cities into adjusting into better land uses. Building a city from scratch you're probably taking farm land from making food to instead be a new city, and if you can attract enough businesses to attract enough residents you've only helped by creating walkability for a few hundred or thousand people while the rest of the country remains car dependant.
Honestly I was on a walk recently and had the thought cross my mind of "what if this road were ripped up, the newly reclaimed land was sold for housing and small quiet businesses and the sidewalks widened into first class bike/walking paths just wide enough for an emergency/utility vehicle to drive down?" and I got a little sad that such a utopian vision just isn't politically palatable.
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And this is the heart of our predicament - the ones in control understand this. If they keep our misery at a low simmer they get to extract everything from us, slowly, we won't revolt. I worry that our only hope may be that they miscalculate and the pot boils over. I really don't want that, but I'm having a harder and harder time imagining real improvements anymore.
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We'd have have to drug or something first to get them to sign over their wealth. Probably film it, make sure no one thinks it was onder duress. The whole process could take months to make sure it looks legit. CIA level brainwashing maybe? I donno, just spitballing.
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Homelessness is up 20% over the last 2 years. The pot is already boiling over, I'm not sure what more you think most people have left to lose.