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Not the biggest fan of eat the rich.
IMO purge the parasites is more accurate.
Eat the rich makes it sound like they are intrinsically more valuable whereas, like parasites, all they do is take value at the expense of the host.
It’s not even a fatal thing, their hoarding is a mental illness that must be addressed for the good of society.
It's from some novel I believe, i personally prefer tax the rich because that describes best what i think needs to happen.
True but it accurately describes the targets and the effects of doing it.
If Elon Musk disappeared tomorrow, chances are more people would have access to food.
It's not just food, it's housing and electricity and power to improve the world.
A trillion dollars is being held captive by one man and we're allowing it. What could a trillion dollars do for the planet, for each person on earth.
Something must be done about the parasitic wealthy because they're causing real harm to people every day they stay rich.
People all over the world will be celebrating! I also can't wait till that orange c**t drops dead - the parties will be awesome. And the tears of the maga shitheads over the death of their cult leader will be sweet.
If Elon was flayed in the streets and his family was deported to countries they don't know the language... It wouldn't solve anything. They are just cunts taking advantage of a situation. So yes, flay the fuck, but change the laws to make sure it isn't possible again
They're starving now, dipshit.
They're starving because the rich are hoarding all of the food.
Elon has a pretty simplistic middle-school outlook. Nothing too deep there.
Don’t eat shit, mulch the rich.
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
He's terrified of getting taxed.
He should be terrified of being executed for crimes against the people.
His priorities are skewed.
I 100% support his murder
The whole point of the phrase is: When the poor have nothing left to eat, they will eat the rich.
It wasnt coined as a threat. It's a warning. The poor are already starving, and there is a limit.
And the thing is that 'rich' is not an intrinsic property, it's not genetic. When you eat the rich, everything they were hoarding - that which gave them the title 'rich' - becomes accessible. It doesn't disappear from the system like an MMO inventory.
Only after the starving poor eat the rich, will there be a path to a possible future without starvation.
If Elon dies, lots of his wealth will disappear as the stock price of his companies will drop. Not sure how much and if they will recover but, like it or not, he is a big part of the reason the stock market loves his companies.
When the rich are too rich there are ways, and when the poor are too poor there are ways.
Last winter we sold two girls and endured, and this winter, if this one my woman bears is a girl, we will sell again. One slave I have kept—the first. The others it is better to sell than to kill, although there are those who prefer to kill them before they draw breath. This is one of the ways when the poor are too poor.
When the rich are too rich there is a way, and if I am not mistaken, that way will come soon.
~ Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth
The poor have no need of the rich, but the rich could not exist without the poor.
Musk: But I'm Atlas, holding the world on my shoulders! The poor would starve if I shrugged!
He's been shrugging and the poor have been starving, so maybe it's time for something different.
and to the end the rich has propaganda to convince some of the poor ones that they are poor because of "other" people are making them poor and not the rich, add in other things like lgbtq+, wokeness, women, abortions.
Robert Wyatt:
There is a kind of compromise
You are master of
Your endless gentle nudging
Left us polarised
It's hard to talk to enemies
And we are enemies
What we had in common
Makes it even worse
You're proud of being middle class
Meaning upper class
You say you're self sufficient
But you don't dig your own coal
I think that what you're frightened of
More than anything
Is knowing you need workers
More than they need you
I support what Mamdani is doing, and I think in the long run it will work.
Having said that, it's absurd to say that New York City has tested much of anything. Mamdani was elected just 7 months ago. Has there even been a tax season since he was elected? Moving can also easily take half a year. He balanced the budget on paper, but only by doing stuff like deferring payments to union pension funds. That's not sustainable. Maybe next year he'll be able to keep the budget balanced and make all the necessary pension payments.
You can say that Mamdani is in the process of doing this, and so far it seems to be working. But, at a bare minimum you need to wait a full year to see if it's working, and realistically you probably won't know for 5 years or more.
But, claiming it has been tested is like saying "You can absolutely survive on a berries-only diet. I'm proof. I started that diet this morning and I've never felt healthier!"
Billionaires are mentally ill hoarders, they will fight over every last penny, just like hoarders do when you clean up their filthy house. Except, they are much more insane than someone collecting newspapers, they will screw over thousands of people to make $100 and sleep like babies.
They don't care if the climate/a pandemic/a world war/anything else reduces the human race to 10000 members, as long as they are still at the top of that group.
The problem with pissing on Thatchers grave is eventually you run out of piss.
Idk how ultra-wealthy people like this shitass don't understand that being taxed is the best outcome they can hope for. The alternative is people will eventually get desperate enough that they'll drag the rich cunts out of their houses and beat them to death in the streets.
Which uh, already happened before and i wouldn't be surprised if it happened again in more modern times
Oh they all know it happened before. The rich simply don't think it'll happen again.
*to them
It's the reason they're buying islands and building bunkers.
I'm not going to pretend that billionaires losing all their money will fix all our problems.
But I quite like the idea of them no longer having it.
Right? If I'm dying on this planet I'll blow up the rocket going to Mars in order to keep you here to die with me.
I don't know man we could feed the globe for ~100billion a year sooo just him alone would give us 10+ years to figure it out and honestly his greed being absent will probably heal a lot if things too. Dude doesn't pay taxes so what does he support besides Nazi's?
Considering we make the food... he's not needed in the "feeding" of anyone. He's literally costing us more than what he "creates"
They're starving right now
Rich people do leave, but not as many as what is fearmongered to be.
In the case of New York, it has the Wall Street, it's not like the rich will carry the entire institution with them. Moreover, even Warren Buffet said that during the 1960s and 1970s when the wealth tax was higher, rich people didn't leave.
why does his comment have 40,000 likes.
The amount of simps for Elon dump is ridiculous.
Twitter is also a huge bot farm so I think it’s safe to say that at least half of those likes aren’t real.
I'm so glad Elmo payed attention in school and now shared with us the knowledge of how it were the rich that fed everyone the last 10.000 years /s.
This pathetic pile of lies genuinely believes that Atlas Shrugged is realistic.
The problem is that the wealthy have created an existential crisis for the rest of us