• xedrak@kbin.social
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    I’m sorry, but this point of view is so brain-dead to me. What do you think happens when a billionaire dies? The money magically disappears? It’s redistributed to the masses? No, it’s inherited by relatives. Killing billionaires only creates different billionaires. How about we use our brains and come up with actual solutions rather than parroting brain-dead bullshit?

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      You’re taking the argument at it’s most basic level, assuming that we would kill the billionaires and then sit around twiddling out thumbs. I don’t think it’s much of a leap to assume we’d change how the system works as well lol.

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        Ok? Then maybe do that without the murder part??? If you have actual ideas of how to change the system, then do it?

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            But you still haven’t refuted my main point. If killing them just creates new billionaires, what does that actually achieve?

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              I mean the general idea is we kill them and take their property instead of giving it to their heirs. Killing the billionaires is generally something that occurs as part of the larger revolution and not just a leisurely Sunday activity

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                Sure, and that worked when money was a tangible asset rather than a speculative one. It really doesn’t apply in modern times when most money can’t be physically taken.

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                  Bro what part of a revolution do you not understand. The people saying this stuff are communists and leftists. After a revolution there won’t be stocks left to own or corporations. The whole point of communist revolution is to seize the companies and desolve the capitalist institutions. Surely you understand this no?

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                  Do you think billionaires actually have billions sitting in banks holy shit. They own assets bruh. That’s what we’d be taking.

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              Why not murdering them AND Robin Hood all their shit? At least until the systemic problem that made them billionaires in the first place gets dismantled bit by bit.

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          “Ok, can we do this french revolution without killing the aristocracy? If you have actual ideas of how to change the system, then do it?”

          Maybe an online petition, those always work.