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Break out the guillotine
May 2, 2024 8:57 AM
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Break out the guillotine
Ifekinlovesauerkraut
Lear jets and yachts my ass! Space ships are where it's at now.
ProtagonistofReality
You're forgetting the golden rule. The one with the gold makes the rules.
spookyactionatadistance
There is a space between Lear jets and suffering. That place is shrinking though and it ain't because of the Lear jets. We often look for simple answers and blaming 100 billionaires is easier than admitting that the issues we are facing are sometimes too complex to fully understand and that there isn't 1 solution.
sparerow
Made an effort to find out why you are here because when you discover the truth, you will be free.
digitalagriculture
When pro-capitalist people argue that capitalism drives innovation:
Poppypoppoppop
You have to realize they would still be able to enjoy their lavish life style even if they paid their fair share of taxes, 50% at least. Say one person have 1 billion in their bank account, they pay 50% of taxes, that one person is "left with" 500 millions to spend however they like, and tell me how this is not more than enough for ANYONE on earth. A nice hotel in Vegas would cost that person 25k a month/300k a year. They could stay there, with 500m, ... 1666 years. See how insane this is.
shameofslate
I’m in the high-fidelity first-class traveling set and I think I need a Learjet
littmuslozenge
Opened up Imgur to this as I’m waiting for my food stamp interview in a few minutes 😅
donutposse11337
Why are you interviewing food stamps?
isszuSparkleBandit
What's even worse is that it's money they can't even spend. It's all vanity after a certain point
jeepsteve92xj
My rent went up more than my raise. Nevermind the raise was already consumed by gas prices jumping up. F*ck.
Vladraconis
To be fair, Life does not care about the individual, only about the propagation of the species. Any species. It is natural for many to suffer for a few to go on. As it is natural for tribes and packs and species to fight so that only the strongest get to reproduce. The thing is, humans like to boast that they have overcome this natural order, and are better. The sad truth is that no, humans have not become better, kinder, more rational. But oh boy did they become better at lying.
Tallboy13
That's exactly why we're here. People have kids because they're brainwashed by institutions like churches, governments and corporations that need the masses to perpetuate.
stopdoggybarking3
Human appetite for acquisition is built in, it’s only a problem because say, 3% of the human population are really skilled at it and many of them ate psychopaths, narcissists or suffer from anti-social personality disorder and cannot see that being wealthy and flaunting it is not acceptable - you can bet your life that such people existed 40,000 years ago.
Iwouldbenick
I have 99 problems. 96 of them can be resolved with more money.
FetteredJuvenescence
Just pointing out a yacht is any small sailing vessel. Technically what most people think of as yachts are not, they're motor yachts and "superyachts" at that (Anything around 80 feet long or over). A lot of people live on cheap yachts that aren't much more expensive than a car, and they're not the folks who need a date with a guillotine.
TheOldSchoolisBack
Technically, you’re being pedantic
FetteredJuvenescence
No, it's something that actually bugs me when I see how many people think yacht == gigantic cruise ship sized boat owned by a billionaire. The fact that I'm seriously considering living on a modest sailing yacht some day is a factor.
Becker37
What do we do?
cyberimg
Unless if this is all indeed a simulation. Lets face it, most games are programmed for exactly that ratio of NPC vs selected/active PC.
Masonrig
ChadMaxxington
They are not part of us
SillyBilly2
Kings, queens, dicktaters*, shoguns, Pharos…it’s been around unfortunately
xuumo
How is this even real?
LemmingRuss
Did some calculations earlier today. If all of the world's billionaires suddenly disappeared, there'd be enough cash from them to make nearly 10 MILLION people instant millionaires.. a million dollars would let me not work for the rest of my life and still have enough to be comfy.
zbobet2012
So about 0.12% of the world population would be able to retire. Or about one in every 800 people. I'm all for taxing billionaires more, but people really need to get out of their heads that we'd all be rich and happy if we taxed them out of existence. We wouldn't even be close.
LemmingRuss
Maybe not retirement, but the world would certainly be a better place without the strain.
Pizza0Style0Burrito
Rebar77
HeywouldJablowme
Of course it was. This is the way the system has always worked. Democracy, freedom, america? Always a joke. If you don't believe me just ask the black folks that provided the Free Labor that built america.
mercbrit
*Learjet is one word.
proxy5000
littlefoxpounce
Unless the ones with the jets and yachts are the ones making the rules
in70x
Sadly we have seen Trump as President which means mostly average people voted against their self interest… it’s not all the ultra wealthy fault when we keep putting them in power..
HonestCatContentReviews
Obviously not, we would have risen up and destroyed them by now
BklynPunisher
DrWhy9
Biologically, to repeat and protect a complex polymer.
cyberimg
Hmm, a polymer or an encoded protein? Anyway, it just shift the verbiage: "so that most protein carriers struggle so a few protein carriers can have learjets and yaghts"
mieper3
I sometimes find great comfort in the thought that my main goal in life is to live.
Its an objective that I achieve on a daily basis!
drcookieninja
And once you stop achieving that, it no longer matters to you! But that polymer he's talking about is DNA so have your babies and raise them, THEN you can die
FaecalJacksonPollock
IAmNotNSAsodonotbeparanoid
PineappleLoopsBroether
What is THAT from?
FaecalJacksonPollock
Amphibia.
PineappleLoopsBroether
Wow, that was on Disney. Surprising.
FaecalJacksonPollock
Yeah, it has quite a few scenes that were shocking to see in a Disney show (including quite graphical violence against children).