Reality TV show idea:
"Billionaire Death Pit"
We put billionaires in a pit and fill it with molten lead.
Then we take their money and build schools and hospitals with it. (TikTok screenshot)

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[–] 89 points 1 year ago (6 children)

If we're workshopping names, Boil the Billionaire has nice alliteration.

"I'm Mark Summers and Welcome to..."

Live Audience: "BOIL!"

Live Audience: "THE!"

Live Audience: "BILLIONAIRE!"

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    What about calling it "you can't do that on television" and slime boil them when they say "I do not recall" or similar while under oath

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I understood that reference. God, getting old sucks.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago

    I like it, but it needs some work to give it staying power. I say start with 1 billionaire, then once they've gotten a good, front-row whiff of the consequences, we start a blind bidding war for social services, a different one each episode. Whoever has the lowest bid gets a new and excruciating ending at the end of each episode. The one guy left standing at the end gives up his money for the final program, but gets to walk out alive.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    But we get the lead back, right? Otherwise that's a bit of a waste.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    Who Wants to Bury a Billionaire?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Depends what you define as landlord.

    Guy who owns 2-3 duplexes in the city? Nah.

    Big time landlord who makes hundreds of thousands of dollars from thousands of properties? BOIL EM!!!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    the guy who owns 2-3 duplexes can (and are incentivised) to be as cruel and inhumane as possible by the same capitalist forces.

    if you ask me, rent shouldn't be a thing. once you paid the value of the house in rent you should be able to claim it as your own.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Based on that definition you never stop paying. Homes values constantly go up. My dad bought a house in the 1970s. 33k.

    Today the house has a value of 300k. Took him 30 years to pay off the original mortgage.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Exactly. I’m living in a triplex that sold for $1.4 million last year. My rent is less than 1/3 a 30 year mortgage (with a 3.5% down payment). My old landlord set the right price. I hope my new landlord does the same.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    It still staggers me how quickly some people's opinions on landlords changes when they see the money. A bunch of otherwise stand up fellas are now dreaming of using their retirement investments to 'buy some houses, rent them out for the passive income,' and another of the group who says his dream is to buy/own an apartment complex, all the while salivating at the money.

    Most of us are trying to play in a game we hate... where not playing means suffering. I don't really see just owning rental properties to be worthy of the billionaire boil. Hold them accountable for every scummy practice and ounce of harm caused by greed seeking, but not merely for renting housing out.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    "we can monetize the fall of billionaires"

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Liberté! égalité! fraternité!

    Leeja Miller notes historically wealth accumulated by the aristocratic elite is never restored back to the public (that is, back to the state general fund, then used to sponsor roads, bridges, libraries, food programs, education, science, etc. which serve the public good) except through violence, e.g. the response of the French public after the États Généraux de 1789 )

    So this, along wirh discussions of the kind of reprisal Luigi Mangioni may not have done, all tracks, considering the escalating clime in the United States.

    It'd sure be nice to find a nonviolent path to restoring creating public-serving government and a system that regards the personhood of absolutely everyone, but we very much cannot take violence off the table, especially when it comes to restoring wealth parity.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I still wouldn't watch it, but I fully support the concept

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    No no no. You HAVE to watch, so the show gets good ratings. Otherwise it gets cancelled.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Switched roles Squid Game

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    This is fantasy, I do not condone violence.

    I want them to fight to the death in an arena. There's about 800 of them in America. We could set up a tournament bracket, there are plenty for every city to get a live performance. If they refuse to fight, they're both beheaded. The whole thing would be televised. Viewership would break world records. The champion gets life in prison.

    It would start here, but like any good reality show, it would expand worldwide.

    It would stay active, when two people are discovered to be in control of over a billion--because you know they won't be able to resist, and they'll do their best to hide it, thinking they'll get away with it--they'll be rounded up and paired off.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No joke, Hunger Games-ing the billionaire class might actually be enough to solve world hunger.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Make them run from the molten lead.

    Call it: the running billionaire

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    There's no real entertainment in this...

    let them fight to the death... and then let the animals in... If you want to know how to entertain MAGA folks... check out the ancient romans!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    each billionaire is 3 seasons, and it is as over the top as ty Pennington: every applicant gets healthcare, housing, and a job.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    And what do we do with witches billionaires

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    But is lead going to be bad for the groundwater?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Wait, building schools and hospitals with lead? Seems like a bad idea but let’s do it. Can’t be much worse than what they have planned for us

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Nothing but good to come out of that idea.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    As long as my band can still be "Surprise Blueberry Buttsex"

    Sorry. I forgot. My band name is Cheesy McSneezer and the Cheesy McSneezer 7".

    It would be a big lounge style band, where the songs are all covers of popular songs of the time, except dung in a lounge band style. The songs would all be sung by one guy, with a distinctive voice.

    But every live show, there would be a new reason why Cheesy McSneezer couldn't be there that night. So instead, please welcome a one night only replacement of (insert famous singer from other famous band).

    Nobody would know what Cheesy looks like, or who he is, but every night the replacement is different, and every night the reason he can't be there is different.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Can I be the guy that pours the lead?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I don't think building hospitals with billionaire filled lead is a good idea.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Online liberals will joke about eating the rich but get mad when protesters block traffic. Online liberals will joke about "the guillotine" but argue that destruction of property counts as "violence".

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    Because blocking traffic doesnt hurt anyone except other lower class people forced to drive for their livelihood.

    Lets protest the rich by punishing the poor. Next well protest the rich by licking their boots. They'll hate that for sure... Makes no sense.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What's your opinion on strike action ?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I've started to reply to this a few times but I dont think there is a "good" answer. Me personally I think strikes and boycotts are functional protest methods. They hurt innocent people just trying to survive but the difference is that they dont "just" hurt those people. They also hurt the rich at their bottom line.

    The real problem I have with traffic protests is that they dont actually do anything other than alienate the protesters. If you could do mass traffic protests so that it actually made a difference to outweigh the other side of the coin then it would be different. But you would need a nationwide organized protest. Which we are nowhere close to.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Thanks that makes some sense. I think the thing is they've been effective in the past, and not much else has. Maybe there has to be some sort of sacrifice to gain progress.

    I guess some of the postwar progressive (economic) reforms - largely now abolished - were actually a product of democractic pressure rather than protest - but some of the other ones like anti-racism stuff still did require sacrifice and protest on top of that. And the prevailing economic conditions were quite extreme at that time. When people have less to lose there's less cost.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    There will be a lot of blocked traffic if we ever bring back the guillotines. Just be honest and say you don't want to be inconvenienced.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Nah, im all for eating the rich but dont punish working people with stupid protests. Protests that inconvenience people who you want to be on your side just turns them against you. If you want to lose the fight make everyone who supports you stop supporting you.

    You do you though.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    How can we ever get to the point of eating the rich if we can't even block traffic without turning people away from the cause? The former is far more disruptive than the latter.

    Mass protests in other countries have shut entire cities down. That's what it takes. If your sentiment is the popular one (and it appears to be), then Americans will never get to a place of actual resistance. I guess people just aren't mad enough yet.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago

    We don’t need their money to pay for any of that, not providing them is an exclusively political choice.

    The only justification needed to take their money is because them having it is an existential crisis for society.

    It should be proportionally more expensive to remain rich.

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