If all your problems are billionaires, all your solutions end up looking like guillotines

[cypnk@masto.hackers.town]

If all your problems are billionaires, all your solutions end up looking like guillotines

[curtosis@mastodon.social]

@cypnk Safe* and effective!

*Virtually no negative side effects, especially for non-billionaires.

[krans@mastodon.me.uk]

@cypnk So political violence is fine as long as *you're* doing it?

[seachaint@masto.hackers.town]

@krans @cypnk Once you've built a guillotine, it'll seem like a waste to only use it on a few billionaires.

A popular revolution against extreme inequality looks more and more likely daily. They're already very, very likely to descend into indiscriminate bloodshed without us trivialising it ahead of time.

Demagogues love violence, it's cathartic and distracting and it's easier than figuring out a fair way to distribute expropriated hoards of abstract wealth.

[cypnk@masto.hackers.town]

@krans Way to misread what I said

[krans@mastodon.me.uk]

@cypnk Maybe you could explain what I missed?

[cypnk@masto.hackers.town]

@krans When people blame *all* their problems on the select few billionaires in the public eye, the finger pointing is easy and yes, violence becomes the easy and often wrong answer

All their problems are *not* billionaires is my point

[krans@mastodon.me.uk]

@cypnk Got it. I read your post as yet another, “1. Murder people, 2. ???? 3. All society's ills are solved,” post. Thank you for clarifying.

[cypnk@masto.hackers.town]

@krans It's a play on the old proverb: "when all you have is a hammer, all your problems end up looking like nails"

[kevinrns@mstdn.social]

@cypnk

Fair wages and taxes are more fun, long lasting and systemic. Billionaires are theft. Heading straight to fair is the fastest way to help those needing it.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@kevinrns @cypnk

> long lasting

[citation needed]

Jokes aside, I agree with the principle, but I have myself doubts that it would prevent them from buying out politicians and have that being dismantled over time. 8-/

[kevinrns@mstdn.social]

@oblomov @cypnk

Piketty explains in raw data, in no uncertain terms, that obsene wealth, morbid wealth, financial aneurysms, are an unavoidable product without strong purposeful taxation.

Those books articles and proposed legislation are available to read, support and apply.

Since biblical times usurary was unethical, sinful, paying starvation wages from silk lined pockets is theft, monopoly is a long known and illegal evil.

Corporate theft bought billionaires