They don't have money. They have debt and stock. Their money is a whole other tier of pretend that we're too poor to have access to.
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2025
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Stocks are assets are money.
The pretend we're collectively falling for is that you can't tax those assets because they're somehow not really there until they want them to be.
Liberté! égalité! fraternité!
Leeja Miller notes historically wealth accumulated by the aristocratic elite is never restored back to the public (that is, back to the state general fund, then used to sponsor roads, bridges, libraries, food programs, education, science, etc. which serve the public good) except through violence, e.g. the response of the French public after the États Généraux de 1789 )
So this, along wirh discussions of the kind of reprisal Luigi Mangioni may not have done, all tracks, considering the escalating clime in the United States.
It'd sure be nice to find a nonviolent path to ~~restoring~~ creating public-serving government and a system that regards the personhood of absolutely everyone, but we very much cannot take violence off the table, especially when it comes to restoring wealth parity.
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
But is lead going to be bad for the groundwater?
I like it, but it needs some work to give it staying power. I say start with 1 billionaire, then once they've gotten a good, front-row whiff of the consequences, we start a blind bidding war for social services, a different one each episode. Whoever has the lowest bid gets a new and excruciating ending at the end of each episode. The one guy left standing at the end gives up his money for the final program, but gets to walk out alive.
Nothing but good to come out of that idea.
If we're workshopping names, Boil the Billionaire has nice alliteration.
"I'm Mark Summers and Welcome to..."
Live Audience: "BOIL!"
Live Audience: "THE!"
Live Audience: "BILLIONAIRE!"
Instead of drowning then in molten lead, we could force-feed them enriched uranium and call it Let Them Eat (Yellow) Cake.
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What about calling it "you can't do that on television" and ~~slime~~ boil them when they say "I do not recall" or similar while under oath
I’d watch that.
Who Wants to Bury a Billionaire?
Switched roles Squid Game
But we get the lead back, right? Otherwise that's a bit of a waste.
I don't want billionaire poisoning in my lead.
Might need to do a little work to clean all the carbon garbage out of there, but yeah that should be no prob.
slag
Can I be the guy that pours the lead?
There's no real entertainment in this...
let them fight to the death... and then let the animals in... If you want to know how to entertain MAGA folks... check out the ancient romans!
Winner gets a dog park named after them, because they were eaten by wolves released into the pit after they defeated the other billionaires
Sounds good!
and if they run out of billionaires how about landlords next
Funny, I think there was an old fella with a beard that put them in the same category
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Online liberals will joke about eating the rich but get mad when protesters block traffic. Online liberals will joke about "the guillotine" but argue that destruction of property counts as "violence".
Because blocking traffic doesnt hurt anyone except other lower class people forced to drive for their livelihood.
Lets protest the rich by punishing the poor. Next well protest the rich by licking their boots. They'll hate that for sure... Makes no sense.
What's your opinion on strike action ?
I've started to reply to this a few times but I dont think there is a "good" answer. Me personally I think strikes and boycotts are functional protest methods. They hurt innocent people just trying to survive but the difference is that they dont "just" hurt those people. They also hurt the rich at their bottom line.
The real problem I have with traffic protests is that they dont actually do anything other than alienate the protesters. If you could do mass traffic protests so that it actually made a difference to outweigh the other side of the coin then it would be different. But you would need a nationwide organized protest. Which we are nowhere close to.
Thanks that makes some sense. I think the thing is they've been effective in the past, and not much else has. Maybe there has to be some sort of sacrifice to gain progress.
I guess some of the postwar progressive (economic) reforms - largely now abolished - were actually a product of democractic pressure rather than protest - but some of the other ones like anti-racism stuff still did require sacrifice and protest on top of that. And the prevailing economic conditions were quite extreme at that time. When people have less to lose there's less cost.
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"we can monetize the fall of billionaires"
I still wouldn't watch it, but I fully support the concept
No no no. You HAVE to watch, so the show gets good ratings. Otherwise it gets cancelled.
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This is fantasy, I do not condone violence.
I want them to fight to the death in an arena. There's about 800 of them in America. We could set up a tournament bracket, there are plenty for every city to get a live performance. If they refuse to fight, they're both beheaded. The whole thing would be televised. Viewership would break world records. The champion gets life in prison.
It would start here, but like any good reality show, it would expand worldwide.
It would stay active, when two people are discovered to be in control of over a billion--because you know they won't be able to resist, and they'll do their best to hide it, thinking they'll get away with it--they'll be rounded up and paired off.
No joke, Hunger Games-ing the billionaire class might actually be enough to solve world hunger.
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I'm in
That might not be the ideal choice of words in this case, but I like your enthusiasm!
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