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[–] 28 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Musk isn’t worth US$800B, it’s how much he’s been permitted to hoard.

No one can earn a billion dollars, that level of wealth concentration can only ever be forcibly extracted from the work of millions of others, or gifted from someone who did.

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 billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Okay but hear me out: guillotines are really fucking cute.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I’m by no means against deploying a sharp edge with guardrails, I just see guillotines taking many forms.

    You could take their money at the same time as their heads, but I’d argue it more fitting for the experience of extraction to be drawn out.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    This isn't about the symbolism. This is about the actual machines. I think they're cute. We're at least chopping up some watermelon even if we run out of billionaires.

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