Billionaires shouldn’t exist.

Why should billionaires get to vote? They live in an alternate reality.

Billionaires are such fucking parasites...

Under fire? Why do you guys keep missing?

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.

Talk like this is almost like they are BEGGING for the guillotines to start rolling out.

Under fire? Put him in the fire.

Why is everyone that has worked on Ruby on Rails a total and utter douchebag? should be studied how that one project seems to have spawned some of the biggest bigoted asshole douches in the tech industry.

Lutke is a moron just like DHH is a moron and surprise surprise they're both from RoR.

I just want world wide wealth caps. 10 million is the max that any person canboen or control. Any additional income after that goes 100% straight to taxes.

This simple rule has wide spread implications from ending poverty to likely ending wars, removing power from narcissist politicians, and souch more

I used to work at Shopify. Wouldn't recommend it.

This is the same company that simps for PP and MAGA

My brother was one of the first 10 or so hires of Shopify so seeing the little company grow into the massive company it is now in the 2010s made me like this guy a lot. He seemed to treat the team with respect and recognized/rewarded them for their work.

Then he totally ended up being yet another shitty billionaire (MAGA supporter iirc).

Thankfully, my brother quit before Toby's dickishness was made obvious, and so he remains the nicest, down-to-earth guy that I know.

Billionaire people shouldn't be able to vote.

They have power through capital already, they don't need more.

Classism is usually brought up as a word when identity politics writers want to pay lip service to it. But this is classism.

He’s right though. The oligarchs having to own news and social media to get the election outcomes they want, and then also having to lobby those politicians to enact the right policies is incredibly inefficient. It would be simpler if the politicians were unelected and simply payrolled employees of the owner class.

"Poors under fire for thinking that killing billionaires should be legal".

It is so frustrating when I become responsible for the neighborhood problems

Edit that was for a different thread but fuck it

It used to be that only property owners could vote. The laws all favoured the property owners.

When you said "under fire" I thought you meant literally, as in there is a squad of soldiers currently training their machine guns on the lad's home.

Has he considered that voting is free, but bullets are cheap? If he were smart, he'd be wary of taking the ballot box out of the equation.

Every single billionaire admits they've been lucky. They aren't special, they're just lucky to have more than their fair share.

They keep talking like that and “the poors” might have to do something about it. There’s a historical precedent. At the end of the day there a lot more of us than there will ever be of them.

under fire

Oh?

figuratively

Oh.

Assuming Tobi Lutke makes at least 8% roi on his investments, he could give every homeless person in canada 20grand a year using just the interest.

He should be on fire, not "under fire".

I do understand the frustration with the fact that people who are working have less time to be politically active than retirees, but I don't really see any way around it. The flip side is that a lot of great volunteers retire into community service and have a lot of extra time to help the community because they no longer work.

I actually find his idea of weighed voting based on tax paid a good idea. But then percentage wise based on both income and wealth. So if you pay 2% tax you get 2 votes, if you pay 50% you get 50 votes.

Awwww too bad billionaires don't / barely pay taxes. No votes for those arrogant rich assholes. Now we can vote to arrest billionaires who don't pay taxes, imprison them for tax evasion and Epstein files and take away their wealth which can be used to improve quality of life of the general public.