• simone@lemmy.org
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    3 months ago

    Killing the billionaires will solve most of the world’s human created problems overnight.

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      3 months ago

      I don’t know about that, the reason these billionaires exist is because they’re at the top of the pyramid of a fucked system, if they all died overnight they’d just be replaced by the next one in line, cheap plastic shit and toxic food would still get produced, pollution would still keep happening etc. I mean there’s a chance that the event might work some sense into the rest of them, or scare them into enacting actual change but it’s not a given.

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        3 months ago

        You see, when they are replaced, you kill the next. I say we do it and then see how it goes. 4000 dead assholes is a small price to pay in war.

        The problem is, they control the system… so you cannot use the system to beat them. The only thing left is deleting them from the system and restructuring it without their involvement.

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      3 months ago

      The SRs did this for nearly a century in czarist Russia and it didn’t bring them any closer to revolution. By the 1910s they made being a minister for the Czar a legitimately dangerous profession, if anything it made the regime more reactionary and made them beef up the police state.

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        3 months ago

        A thing that didn’t work in the past doesn’t mean it won’t work in the future by learning from the mistakes of the past.

        But go on, keep telling me how much you love billionaires, and capitalism.

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      The system that made them will still be there. And people surrounding them, while not billionaires themselves can take over and keep the machine going