QOTD: "I think, every year, the richest person in the world should be sacrificed and their wealth distributed to the poorest among us.
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QOTD: "I think, every year, the richest person in the world should be sacrificed and their wealth distributed to the poorest among us. The rest of the year would be billionaires scrambling to distribute their wealth in an attempt to ensure they aren't the one to pushed out into the ocean next year. Is that radical enough for you?" --@genxkiwi66
This will never happen because all the major media outlets are owned by billionaires. All your neighbors and people around you, when you suggest this plan, will knowingly tell you that this is socialism, or communism. People who have never taken a political science class, but are well educated at the school of Fox News, Facebook, Twitter, Washington Post ... etc.
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QOTD: "I think, every year, the richest person in the world should be sacrificed and their wealth distributed to the poorest among us. The rest of the year would be billionaires scrambling to distribute their wealth in an attempt to ensure they aren't the one to pushed out into the ocean next year. Is that radical enough for you?" --@genxkiwi66
@CdnCurmudgeon I think taking all their money and distribute it to the poorest (in a way they would get among the poorest) is probably a good enough punishment. They would also be motivated to increase the “poorest” level in case they would end up there.
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QOTD: "I think, every year, the richest person in the world should be sacrificed and their wealth distributed to the poorest among us. The rest of the year would be billionaires scrambling to distribute their wealth in an attempt to ensure they aren't the one to pushed out into the ocean next year. Is that radical enough for you?" --@genxkiwi66
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QOTD: "I think, every year, the richest person in the world should be sacrificed and their wealth distributed to the poorest among us. The rest of the year would be billionaires scrambling to distribute their wealth in an attempt to ensure they aren't the one to pushed out into the ocean next year. Is that radical enough for you?" --@genxkiwi66
@CdnCurmudgeon Okay, so in this scenario, we off Musk, and the poorest billion people get two shares each of Tesla, the cesspool formerly known as Twitter, and SpaceX. What are they supposed to do with them?
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QOTD: "I think, every year, the richest person in the world should be sacrificed and their wealth distributed to the poorest among us. The rest of the year would be billionaires scrambling to distribute their wealth in an attempt to ensure they aren't the one to pushed out into the ocean next year. Is that radical enough for you?" --@genxkiwi66
@CdnCurmudgeon Ouch.
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eat one billionaire a week, it's all we ask
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QOTD: "I think, every year, the richest person in the world should be sacrificed and their wealth distributed to the poorest among us. The rest of the year would be billionaires scrambling to distribute their wealth in an attempt to ensure they aren't the one to pushed out into the ocean next year. Is that radical enough for you?" --@genxkiwi66
@CdnCurmudgeon HAH! This is brilliant! Along those lines, I think there should be a reality TV show (like "Survivor") except the winner gets voted off first with the largest amount of money, and the prizes decrease down to zero for the last person.
How to win? Be the nicest, most honest and helpful person! Peeps would fall over themselves trying to be good humans.
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@CdnCurmudgeon My thought was to assign anyone exceeding a consensus derived wealth sum would be given some long languishing public works project. Basically following the 'idle hands' principle. "idle wealth".
And until said public works project is certified satisfactorily completed by 86.2% of the affected citizens, said Gazillionaire will be required to pay the same percentage of income tax as their lowest-paid employee pays, with no exceptions, loopholes, or sleights of hand.
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QOTD: "I think, every year, the richest person in the world should be sacrificed and their wealth distributed to the poorest among us. The rest of the year would be billionaires scrambling to distribute their wealth in an attempt to ensure they aren't the one to pushed out into the ocean next year. Is that radical enough for you?" --@genxkiwi66
@CdnCurmudgeon Excellent!
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QOTD: "I think, every year, the richest person in the world should be sacrificed and their wealth distributed to the poorest among us. The rest of the year would be billionaires scrambling to distribute their wealth in an attempt to ensure they aren't the one to pushed out into the ocean next year. Is that radical enough for you?" --@genxkiwi66
The first billionaire that crosses into trillionaire wealth.
Gets the guillotine, as a warning to the rest
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@CdnCurmudgeon @blogdiva Potlatch: the wealthiest person intentionally distributes all they own to the community and lives off of handouts and gratitude. Not a new thing. No loss of life.
@beckett @CdnCurmudgeon @blogdiva
"From 1885 to 1951, the Government of Canada criminalized potlatches. However, the practice persisted underground despite the risk of government reprisals including mandatory jail sentences of at least two months"
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@CdnCurmudgeon Every time I see something like this, I remember that Taylor Swift is a billionaire. Who gets to decide who is evil and who is not? We need a better metric, like how well compensated are their employees. Swift is generous. Bezos is a monster.
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QOTD: "I think, every year, the richest person in the world should be sacrificed and their wealth distributed to the poorest among us. The rest of the year would be billionaires scrambling to distribute their wealth in an attempt to ensure they aren't the one to pushed out into the ocean next year. Is that radical enough for you?" --@genxkiwi66
@CdnCurmudgeon not comfortable with ‘sacrificed’. They can pick a different country to ‘start over’ and will be given 0.0001 ounces of gold.
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And until said public works project is certified satisfactorily completed by 86.2% of the affected citizens, said Gazillionaire will be required to pay the same percentage of income tax as their lowest-paid employee pays, with no exceptions, loopholes, or sleights of hand.
@JKrotkov @CdnCurmudgeon I admire the elegance of your proposition. Implementation though would require a level of invasive oversight i'm not sure most folks would be comfortable with violating privacy norms over. In order to ensure compliance, you're essentially creating a demand for constant surveillance that i'm confident wouldn't survive a 4th amendment court test.
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@JKrotkov @CdnCurmudgeon I admire the elegance of your proposition. Implementation though would require a level of invasive oversight i'm not sure most folks would be comfortable with violating privacy norms over. In order to ensure compliance, you're essentially creating a demand for constant surveillance that i'm confident wouldn't survive a 4th amendment court test.
um.... we're not proposing legislation here... 🤨
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@franciswashere @darwinwoodka @CdnCurmudgeon
Cut their hamstrings and throw them to some wild boar
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@franciswashere @darwinwoodka @CdnCurmudgeon
Cut their hamstrings and throw them to some wild boar
@darwinwoodka @CdnCurmudgeon @franciswashere
And that's completely unacceptable. I should not have posted that, but have you seen the world we're living in? I think we're past being polite. Maybe I don't know block me or not
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QOTD: "I think, every year, the richest person in the world should be sacrificed and their wealth distributed to the poorest among us. The rest of the year would be billionaires scrambling to distribute their wealth in an attempt to ensure they aren't the one to pushed out into the ocean next year. Is that radical enough for you?" --@genxkiwi66
@CdnCurmudgeon
I wuz obligated to boost this post by virtue of my name.
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um.... we're not proposing legislation here... 🤨
@JKrotkov @CdnCurmudgeon Why not? Look around you, friend. All we see EACH and EVERY fucking day is people standing around BITCHING. Not DOING. Everyone complains. But only a few look for actionable solutions. That dynamic needs to shift if we don't always want to be stuck furiously duct tape patching an entropy engine exquisitely confabulated to tear itself to pieces every day. Civilization is getting too complex & damage potential too broad to keep trusting our luck like this.
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um.... we're not proposing legislation here... 🤨
@JKrotkov @Beggarmidas
There may be a historical precedent we can use...
