feel like i see this headline every year

Thieves

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. This doesn't stop without specific intervention.

Headline misspelled "stole"

Awesome, more trickle down for the rest of us, right. Right?

I hope people are getting hungry…in GTA

"Added" my ass. They STOLE $2.2tn from the working people. They literally took it out from the mouths of starving families, struggling single mothers and fathers, while providing little to no value for all their greed.

If I mathed right, that's roughly $8,800 per U.S. citizen. That is truly fucked up.

Parasites masquerading as geniuses.

Hoarding currency is a mental illness.

Parasites

At this point reality needs a maximum high score. Like, you make $100 billion and the arguments about taxes just stop, you just literally do not make any more money, because why.

What good society would allow this? When seen what it is - literally human life turned into currency through effort - I find it hard to explain letting one person horde this much without using the word "evil."

And how much did they contribute back to the countries that allowed them to amass that ridiculous amount of wealth?

So when are we finally going to stop this, stop the billionaires?

We need laws that put hard caps on ownership and personal wealth. Nobody should be able to have a net worth of over, say, 10 million dollars. Any income over that should be taxed 100% until the person goes below the 10 million line

We done even need different economic systems, capitalism works well to generate wealth, that is fine, we just need to put rules on where that wealth goes.

With taxes, that is a simple fix.

Imagine if you will, if nobody can be worth over 10M, and companies het similarly capped at, say, 1 billion.

You have a company worth 1 billion? You can't have a single owner because of the 10M cap. You'll end up with many ay more smaller companies or bigger companies with loads of small share holders. Companies can compete and grow but the perverse incentives of endless growth would be gone. Companies can finally focus on the end consumers again, and make better products

Meanwhile governments get a huge tax influx, that can be used to fund independent investment foundations that help new startups with funding and professional help to get your new company started

That tax money could be used as well to fund free healthcare, free education, maybe even universal income. We could eradicate the poor.

People could stop focusing on survival and start focusing on living and loving.

I dunno, there are loads of details missing, of course, but this sounds like something doable.

Well it’s sure starting to look like guillotine thirty

Government is our only defense against robber barons. If any government allows itself to be controlled by billionaires, there's NO REASON for the government. It's just a super expensive middleman.

It’s incredible they all work so hard while also shit posting 24/7 and dressing like trash.

They didn't add jack shit, they stole from the workers.

What's fucked up is there is a Bloomberg Billionaires Index. What the fuck is this hero worship slobbering

Gee, wonder where it came from.

ah good, a list

That's nothing. In 2026 they'll at least double that, guaranteed.

What's the number after trillion? Might as well find out soon because there is no stopping the greed juggernaut.

People still give them money

there's multiple ways to deal with that. i just want to name a few:

• in the past, many countries in europe did it like that that companies are still privately owned, but the companies have to fulfill government-dictated regulation, such as restricting environmental pollution, making sure working conditions for humans are safe, making sure human workers have enough holidays and time off, and such
• a possible alternative that's often discussed is repossessing the companies entirely, such that the companies become the possession of either the state or the people. i want to comment that there is essentially a mechanism to do this, which is taxation. taxation today is already a mechanism to move wealth from a person or organization to the state. it just has to actually be used properly.
• i'm too lazy to list more options rn

Billionaires STOLE Record $2.2tn Wealth in 2025…

FTFY