Waste of perfectly good lead. The same outcome could be achieved with human excrement.
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Uh, I have some notes. First, lead is toxic-can it be a giant blender instead?
Okay, that was my only note, actually.
You forgot the part where we also take their companies, real estate, stock, private jets and yachts.
Rich people hunger games
Doctors should put billionaires into involuntary commitment in psych wards.
that level of greed is a serious immediate danger to everyone.
But who wins
Alternatively we can just take their stuff and throw them in jail. After all the system was designed for them to become what they are. Good enough for me.
Assuming you could wave a magic wand and convert their net worth straight into cash 1:1 (you can't), you couldn't even do the last thing on that list, much less all the others:
Assuming in the US, using 2023 figures:
- Total combined net worth of all billionaires (remember, you can only "take all their money" one time): $5.2 trillion
- Total annual healthcare cost: $4.9 trillion
Too many people have been deluded into believing that 'the billionaires' are capable of easily solving all societal ills if only they gave away their wealth, and aren't they such assholes for keeping their wealth and not solving them?
Most people are not nearly aware of the actual costs of these things.
Contrary to the other commenter, I AM trying to say you're wrong. Universal healthcare is very much possible, see every actually developed country! They even managed to do it without the molten lead thing, though I'm sure it would help.
see every actually developed country
and a lot of developing countries, Algeria which had a literacy rate of 3% had universal healthcare in the 70s, 10 years of not being a settler colony
Libya too before 2011 (except the literacy rate was recorded to be 89 to 99% at one point)!
not to mention the fact that that the "developed" countries depend heavily on the exploitation of the Global South to provide free/universal healthcare, yes European reader reading this, this includes Finland and no Poland isn't excluded either.
the Europeans literally destroyed Libya
of course they did, anything so much as hints at providing welfare services that isn't born out of imperialism is a threat to their imperialism... so they needed to make an example out of Libyans by turning it into a sex slave trading hub.
يلعن شكلهم
يلعن شكلهم
والله صح الله يلعن أمريكا وأوروبا، دمروا نصف العالم لمال
Total annual healthcare cost: $4.9 trillion
That would be $12K /person /year. That's a lot. That really shows the inefficiency of the US healthcare system, not the inevitable cost of healthcare.
4.9 trillion assuming you're paying everything through the corrupt, extortionate gringo system.
Actually civilized countries like China and Cuba manage to give universal healthcare to their citizens at a much, much cheaper cost per capita, and without the horrible deficiencies of US healthcare, all under international embargo in the case of Cuba.
Also, really convenient how y'all bootlickers are all about passive income but you pretend assets are going to become cash and nothing else, not to mention the fact that the government can literally print dollars and keep the currency stable as long as industrial output and taxation is well managed.
I'm not trying to say you're completely off base here, but that $4.9 trillion would drop pretty significantly under a universal health care system
Sir/Madam, you have invented alchemy.
Lead and human waste goes in, gold comes out.
Bravo.
Why not skip the lead and double the human waste?
I'm a much more humane individual. I think they should be allowed to 'purchase' a ladder before going in, with several different lengths being offered. However, the only one that's actually anywhere near long enough to let them escape the pit and the molten lead is the one that costs 99.99% of their wealth.
Call it a kind of ethical self-selection for those that place excessive, short-sighted value on their own holdings.
Who knew @PugJesus@lemmy.world moonlights as the dude from Saw?
Porque no los dos?
I'm more of a fan of putting them in a big enclosure, and tell them the last one alive gets to keep their wealth, and then give dem a mix of weird weapons. At the end the plot twist is that they still die.
So battle royale but with rich cunts.
Should make for some good, family friendly, friday night enternainment.
then give dem a mix of weird weapons
Like medieval weird, Monty Python weird, or Salvador Dali weird?
I'd love for Mark Zuckerberg to kill Elon Musk with a rubber chicken only for George Soros to suffocate him with a molten clock, after which he in trampled by Bezos wielding two halves of a coconut 😁
Of course, Bezos would then be crushed under a mountain of "bathroom break alternatives" from his former employees.

We’d need a large dildo or two in there as well. As weapons that is.
I like the way you think. You're on the planning committee
Terrible idea. It doesn't have the irony angle.
We take all of their assets for welfare, operations costs, and the planetary deficit. Then we have an island that we drop them off on and they get to battle royale. The last one alive gets to be a millionaire but can't have a net worth greater than a million, they can't conduct business/work activities or invest in the stock or bond market, and they have to live in a studio apartment for the rest of their life.
The island is rigged with cameras and drones for subscribers to watch. The profits generated go towards operations and welfare.
When there are 10 left in the round, combat knives get dropped off for them.
Same thing for convicted murderers, rapists, and pedos on another island but the last one alive gets to recover before the next round. If they survive 10 rounds they get to decide between staying for another round until they don't want to anymore or they get to go to the 1% island and can win a million dollars if they survive.
Yes, it is just a way toharness murderers to kill off convicted rapists and pedos in order to find the deadliest murder and unleash them on the 1%.
Don't let me become King of Planet America.
...convicted murderers, rapists, and pedos...
Don't forget to include people who talk in the theater.
I think we should take their money before putting them in the pit of molten lead. They might try to take it into the pit with them.
Blue shell the rich. Interestingly, you can turn steel blue with a little heat and some brass: https://youtu.be/1N45kwD6S8g
No it should be more like a battle royal style (with the exception you also kill the last survivor but don't tell them this)
Shark tank but instead of Billionaires sitting in chairs, they swin in actual shark tank with hungry sharks.
Might be a stupid question but who ist gonna buy their assets? Most of their Money ist gonna bei stocks and who has the money to buy out jeff bezos? Or does everyone just get a share of Amazon? Where is the money for schools coming from?
Amazon would get nationalized into the state. Then it could continue to operate with profits going into the general fund (and from there into public works and social programs)
Or it could be liquidied and all the proceeds would go into the general fund.
For this we'd need a lot of budget reform, especially after the OBBBA budget reconciliation bill.
But the premise of the meme is correct. The resistance needs to target specific officials (e.g. Steve Miller, the Federalist Society shills in SCOTUS — Leonard Leo while were at it.
(I'm assuming for this thought experiment assassination or guillotines in the city square are last resort options.)
The resistance needs to present a high plausible threat to all things they care about: their wealth and power, their family, their status and liberty.
Steve Miller will not take the resistance seriously unless he believes that by not doing so, he personally will lose everything, and be forced to watch it slip from his grasp. Same with Alito and Thomas. Trump's faculties may be too far gone to make such a deal, so we'll have to target those around him, who are making the decisions anyway.
This is how we can save the US, and we better have a solid skeleton constitution that establishes governing bodies and rights that are absolute.






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