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Xylaria
@Xylaria

I still maintain that the execution of about 3000 billionaires would fundamentally change global society so severely that we might enter into a new global golden age.

People always give me the "Oh my GOD you can't just kill people" without realizing every single one of these billionaires makes the conscious choice to kill thousands of people every single day, through inaction, through exploitation, through greed. Every one of them lays on top of a pile of bodies that grows by the day, and if you get rid of them, you stop the pile of bodies growing.

If your concern is saving the most lives, stopping billionaires from existing is the most expedient thing you can do to save the most lives possible.

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Vergiliaux
@Vergiliaux

It's always the comfortably privileged who ignore forget the power dynamics in this capitalist and white supremacist hellscape.

  • Let's also take note of every damn time the wealthy use the system, exactly as intended, to keep the "lesser" people under foot before they take too much money and power from them. It's a regularly-scheduled power trip that gets eaten up by the average person.
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KaterinaBucket
@KaterinaBucket

My perspective is that it very much isn't "oh my god you can't just kill people!" from a moral perspective - I can and often will vigorously defend numerous post-revolutionary periods of "terror", it's that JUST killing people actually accomplishes very little. Killing 3000 billionaires would do surprisingly little to actually diminish the political clout or military power of billionaires as a class, and in fact wouldn't even really reduce the number of billionaires, bc it's not as if their holdings would suddenly be dissolved or distributed.

You gotta sieze power to make killing the billionaires actually stick, and siezing power in the first place is the hard part.

I DO think you could move the needle a great deal by killing just a few dozen of their most influential propogandists, however, many of whom are not actually themselves billionaires

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Xylaria
@Xylaria

In a realistic scenario, you're right, but also if we were to the point where we could actually exercise punishment on the billionaires the whole global power structure would have shifted so much that their own power would be incredibly diminished. We would have to break so many institutions and topple almost the entire global power apparatus to be able to inflict justice on these monsters anyway.

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hierarchon
@hierarchon

but if you're at that point, you can already just take their stuff away (or whatever) without killing them, meaning they can't do any further harm. so you're killing them just for the sake of killing them.

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