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Ok so how does a cancer kill its host?

It grows until it consumes so many nutrients that the other living cells don't get enough. The host literally starves even if he eats plentifully.

The same applies for the US: The billionaires are not only hoarding wealth, but by doing so they're crippling the economy for workers and everybody besides themselves.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Been saying it for years. Sadly there are too many at the bottom mesmerized by the elite propaganda telling them "you can also be like me, if you work hard", as if they earned billions that way without any dirty tactics along the way, and despite even with success still needing such tactics to take more and more.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Luigi knew how to cure this type of cancer. It's not rocket science but nobody with the means and opportunity is willing to do the right thing for humanity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

There is no goal other than to keep taking. They couldn’t stop even if they wanted to. It only ends when life becomes so miserable for enough people that violence becomes the only answer

[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 week ago (2 children)

At this point radical measures are necessary to right the wrongs committed by the rich. Taxes are a good start but not enough.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Jail sentences,

countless are dead due to billionaire greed. they are directly responsible.

life sentences for billionaires

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Jail them and spend even more money? Naa, just eat em

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

they rich are an ethical source of protein

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There is no law providing for such a sentence, so what you are talking about is either "make billionaireism illegal" or "extrajudicial punishment". In the case of the former, we need a Guillotine Party to take over the DNC much like the Tea Party took over the GOP. Or, we need a guillotine party, French Revolution style, to resolve the problem-class at its source.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If I have a company, where I intentionally make choices that kill my costumers, that would make me liable for manslaughter, me and anyone involved in the deaths. why healthcare billionaires are not liable?

same with every other billionaire who profits from human suffering and deaths.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Suppose you spend 1.000 dollar a day.

A millionaire would take roughly 3 years until he spent it all.

If Jesus were a billionaire and did the same. He wouldn't finished by today and would need another 700 years.

The numbers might be not exact but the point still stands: The difference between a millionaire and billionaire is ridiculous huge.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Correct, because the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is roughly 1 billion dollars.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

People think they understand numbers like billion because they understand thousand and billion is just thousand times thousand (million) times thousand. Multiplication is fairly intuitive, but exponentiation is not. Without explicitly thinking it through people feel like 1000^3 is not very different from 1000 * 3.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

It's the same reason the lottery fools so many people into gambling their money away.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There are roughly just under 3000 people on earth with more than a billion dollars.

They have a combined net worth of over $16 Trillion

Say the almighty Cthulu/Allah/Zeus decided "yo fuck those assholes" and instantly redistributed that $16 trillion among all 8 billion+ people on earth equally

Everyone: Every man, woman and child would get just a bit shy of $2000.

Fun thought experiment

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Figuratively, but yes, I agree.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

actually yes, figuratively is the word that i should have used.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

Every person who kills a billionaire does so in self defense.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The (original) Nazis are rightfully considered monsters for killing millions of people in the 20th century. What will any survivors of the incineration of earth consider the billionaires that are killing BILLIONS of us for greed?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Literal parasites who consume everything and offer nothing in return

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

What are you talking about? Billionaires are what's saving this country! Everyone just needs to stop eating and be homeless. But also fuxk homeless people and you turn to drugs for comfort? Jail obviously. They're totally fixing everything! /S

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We should start call them hoarders instead. They are just as obsessed and wierd about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Right? Billionaires should be seen in the same light as someone with a house full of cats and feces. Hoarding for the sake of hoarding is mental illness. Instead: we put them on Forbes and look to them as royals. Kill the rich.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

I think what you mean to say is capitalism is cancer. There are books written on the subject.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Each billionaire is an individual problem AND allowing billionaires to grab and monopolize so many resources and even looking up to them is a systemic problem.

Without the systemic problem which is Capitalism and the shallow, greedy present day society, billionaires would be treated the same as other hoarders - seen mentally derranged and stopped from going too far for their own good and the good of others.

There will always be nutters, but if the social system we have wasn't broken, this very specific kind of nutter would never be allowed to cause the damage they do with their mental disease.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (8 children)

The same applies to the human race.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure.

Fuck man. Now I need to rewatch The Matrix

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (16 children)

I am incensed by the use of the word “literally” here almost as much as I am incensed by the hyper rich denying the vast fraction of the human race basics rights and freedoms. Almost.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Too Big -> 2 @Jail

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

you forgot what ties together your thought: they are destroying the planet.

they are literally killing the host.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

1st world culture makes them. Quit supporting that. We only have ourselves to blame. It’s time to own up to that fact.

You don’t need much of the things they market to you.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You don’t need much of the things they market to you.

Today i learned i don't need food ...

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You're right about the similarities, but having similarities is not what "literally" means. That word is so fucking overused.

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