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When money dictates how the world should work.
This is why we need the Mario Party
Luigi, where are you?
hes fighting his alter ego waluigi.
They locked up an innocent man. Luigi didn't do NOTHIN!
What's the guy gonna do? Sue them? He's dead. Murdered by the capitalist authoritarians.
The only rightful place for kings is under the blade of a guillotine.
Guillotines are too 18th century. I am a fan of woodchippers. Feet first, of course!
a scimitar would be sufficient.
I believe this is what is meant by "pull oneself up by one's bootstraps"
I don't want to hear a billionaire shrieking as their toes are mulched. Even if they're parasites, it'll still sound like a human shrieking as their toes are mulched.
Just guillotine them and redistribute their wealth already.
The most painful thing we can do to them is take their money and make them live like the rest of us.
Can we at least carve their highest net worth into their foreheads?
IDK man, you got some lemon juice, duct tape, and a cheese grater?
luigi tried to tell us
Whenever an economic argument is invoked to justify for or against doing something, it’s always a vacuous position.
Economics must be subservient to the needs of the society it exists within.
Heck yes! Even the implementation of AI, and people getting let go. If enough people are unemployed, who's actually buying the products that these companies are selling, peddled by the same AI that replaced the employees with? Feels like a free for all with these tech, not necessarily watching out for the overall impact on human societies....
So not that I like insurance companies (I very much do not) but this seems odd. I do histiotripsy, which is super cool! It allows us to treat certain tumors that could be difficult to get otherwise. But… histiotripsy is can be substituted with lower cost treatments almost always (Cryo or MW ablation) and if curative possibility were present with histiotripsy then another treatment modality would be feasible too.
This is flat out no different than shooting someone in my book.
This is why people are behind Luigi.
Hey, I'm a people! I'm behind Luigi! I'm proof of this!
So are they going to be as surprised and outraged again when another Mario brother shows up to clean up this mess?
"Its-a Me! Mario! AND LUIGI MOTHA FUC----- coin sound effect "
It's like the trolley problem, except on one track is somebody's beloved father and on the other is some executive's 5th yacht.
I remember when I was 5 years old, my dad tried asking me the trolley problem.
So I took my train, and yelled at the G.I. Joes on my tracks "GET OFF THE TRAIN TRACKS, IDIOTS!!!" and ran them over. Then I backed the train up, switched tracks, and ran over spiderman. Then I yelled "FREE BONUS POINTS!!!". Then I punched my dad in the balls, and ran upstairs giggling.
About a year ago my dad reminded me of that story. I'm in my 40s now. So I told him "I stand by that decision."
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This is why we have people like luigi
Need more actually
anything stopping you?
Lots of things
They kill us through fraud And theft, and are surprised that we celebrated Luigi's deeds. The truth is they will only start to care when more of them start to drop. How many more millions need to die because of this BS before we're ready to bring justice down on their heads as a collective class?
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Necessary for thee, not necessary for me I guess
"People will die anyway, why give them healthcare? We are not into that business, just give us your money, you greedy little pigs".
What's ironic is that the big opposition from the GOP to ObamaCare was this ludicrous idea of "Death Panels" weighing human life against budgets.
And yet, when the panels are a dictatorial insurance algorithm, where is that classic 2009-2010 outrage?
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And yet it is often by law that people have to have insurance that pays them nothing when the time comes.
It is nothing short of robbery.
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