Only thing I want billionaires to have is fear.
this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2026
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Good luck with either of those...
Why not ban ownership?
OP posted a choice, you posted an equation
MAYBE TEENAGERS SHOULD OWN SOCIAL MEDIA!!!
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Take away the kids access to communicate with friends and what the fuck do they have left? It's not like we have youth centers or shit any more. Barely had any when I was a kid; that's why I fell in love with the internet.
Attack the actual problem: The owners of propagandized social media platforms owned by billionares that have all the money and reason to use those platforms to gain further influence and power. They are the real reason everything is falling apart; not because a 12 year old is on Twitter.
what the fuck do they have left?
Lots of things! Wellness farms, military readiness camps, factory labor. The possibilities are endless!
How the fuck is banning kids from social media taking away their access to communication with their friends? That's a non-sequiter.
Before the Internet, kids lived isolated existences that precluded communication. They would sit in their rooms, listen to records, and engage in immoral masterbatory behavior.
It’s true. For the first 18yrs of my life I never encountered another kid, just whacked it and played Sabbath records backwards to summon the devil. As soon as I turned 18 I was ready to join the greater community of godless dopesmokers, D&D players, and pornography connoisseurs.
I remember how as a clueless kid, I just went around the internet, and acted as close as my idiot brain could to other people, and I didn't know to have a distinction between old as fuck and young as fuck.
Except I would simply believe older people knew more if they started talking.
Anyway, unsurprisingly, people assumed I was an adult, and would give me horrific insults, ask me things they should not, and expect me to perform at their level, and have situational awareness.
What a massive fuckup.
It's even worse nowadays because there are fewer meatspace options where they won't have the cops called, let alone that are appealing
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because they made friends through social media and have no other communication channels with those friends?
Or are keeping in touch after a move. That would.have made a big diffrence in my life
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You assume their Friends are physically close
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My parents were involved in a cult, and I never would have made it out if I didn't have normies on the internet telling me that being in a mass marriage ceremony to Jesus at 17 was fucked up.
The people trying to take the internet away from people in your situation are the abusers
There's one common element here. Let's ban social media.
Ban all social media that use dark patterns, addictive tactics, manipulative engagement algorithms, and disseminates propaganda.
We need to define what the problems are because they also exist outside of social media.
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Banning billionnaires from participating in economics altogether until they hand it all back to society, increasing equity for all.
In the wild, if a primate starts trying to hoard all the resources, they'd beat them to death (as a family).
We decided to put them in charge of everything, and it's worked out about the way we thought it would.
believe it or not, that's exactly what a wealth tax would do.
Believe it or not, that's exactly why a meaningful wealth tax with such consequences will never be passed and maintained without a literal revolution.
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