Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone.

It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.

It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.

It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.

We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.

We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking.

This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

• President Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953

That doesn't take an expert.

This has been known for a long time, but nothing's gonna change until they've totally wrecked everything of value. It's the "if I can't have it, nobody can" power trip.

Olivier De Schutter needs to read more theory.

This sound like a dream. Too good to be true. :(

They will destroy the entire planet before they allow their aristocracy to be toppled

Get money out of politics and hold politicians to a higher standard.

Yeah shit like that is why the ultra rich have committed to destroying international organizations like the UN

OK, you're right, in a purely ethical world.

But why would the economy change its behavior on a broad scale? What practical incentives would you use to adjust it?

Maybe if our system didn’t allow mere individuals to collect a net worth equivalent to small countries…? Hate the game, not the players. Billionaires should not even exist in the first place.

The percentage of sociopaths involved with defining a society should never be greater than zero.

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.

They're finally starting to get it...

What if we sacrificed all the rich people to appease the god of CO2?

Yeah, we can't. The ultra rich make all the rules. They aren't going to reform themselves.

But it won't

Says some egghead, and any normal sane person on the ground-level.

treat them how you would treat anyone else... tax the fuck out of them, no backroom deals, if they don't comply or break the law detain them and publically humiliate them and bring them to jail until such time that they either post bail, or their trial.

trials for anyone with net worth of 2m+ is done by citizens of the country and a judge oversees... we dictate their future... not their paid judges.

yeah but like these people are kinda the economy, no? WE JUST CANT ALLOW THEM TO GET THAT RICH IN THE FIRST PLACE

Hear hear! The rich elites are doing just fine, let's worry about the rest of us for once. So their billio s will grow a little slower. A billion dollars is more money than one person can spend on a lifetime anyways, and these fuckers have trillions. Time to wall them off on their little island. Yay, you won democracy! Now fuck off and let the rest of us get down to fixing the mess they've left behind.

Narrator: It didn’t.

I think he'll find the 'ultra rich' don't care. They're too busy building their bunkers and think they'll be able to wait it out until the proles have bred enough for their exploitation to restart.

You don't say? What changed so suddenly?

Oh yay the UN EXPERT has spoken. Problem solved.