Not to be disrespectful to Japan, but it's like the dropping of the atom bombs in WW2: the first one sends the message that we have the power to do it, the second sends the message that we're not afraid to keep doing it
Brian Thompson only had a net worth of $43m when he died.
That is mere pocket change to the actual Billionaire class, where the three most wealthy individuals on this planet each extract $40m+ of interest on their net worth PER DAY.
that's the point, it can't be just one. has to be at least two or three.
After the first one they did get scared like you said. Even the health insurance companies got a bit scared and for a brief time they started "doing good". briefly. then they waited. no one else got whacked. so it was back to the "norm".
You gotta cull a few of them in order for things to change.
Every year we wicker man the wealthiest person and their wealth gets used for social programs until poverty (i.e. food water shelter medical insecurities) is eliminated.
One enters the danger zone at X dollar. They make money with speculation and interest, so they have to donate / get rid of it before the countdown stops.
Floating wealth cap. The richest person in the country is responsible for everyone's health care. When their wealth is depleted to #2's level, #2 starts sharing the load.
Keep adding social programs until everyone is down to #1000's level.
I like this, but let’s take the top ten and do a roulette type thing.
Or maybe we make them compete. Maybe make it like some kinda whose line is it any improv, but with call-in voting. Or like Wipeout. (But still with the call in voting.)
Real shame we couldn't get everybody to agree that a person is entitled to a bounty. Like take out a Billionaire, and you're entitled to take like 2 million for every billion they were worth, and the rest is redistributed.
I mean just putting the idea out there, and making them think even their secretary or cook might be thinking that 2m+ is looking pretty tasty. They'd live looking over their shoulders their whole life. Could literally be anybody, at anytime, including one of their guards.
it means avoiding being eaten. The People are easily placated. That's how they become billionaires to begin with, no one stops them because shiny thing! The other billionaires would each donate like 10% of their wealth to foundations they already control and people will think that's so fucking awesome of them.
Jest aside i have often considered a concept where the richest person in the world has half their wealth liquidated and distributed in equal share among the 25% poorest.
We then repeat this process again and again as needed.
Sure but... which one can we eat without getting food poisoning, if we roasted them and left them outside not even animals would eat that, maybe a bear if it was REALLY hungry, their very existence is poisonous.
Nah, need a succession of them. Look at that uhc asshole. If more keep getting popped, maybe. Luigi is being framed so hopefully the real shooter gets another.
Luigi has been falsely accused of whacking some goofy millionaire, a mere servant of billionaires. And no eating involved, even in the false accusation!
But more importantly he couldn't have touched that millionaire, because that day me and my boy Luigi Nicholas Mangione were playing Contra and he carried hard. That guy from the insurance company probably just got into some sort of accident.
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chaogomu@lemmy.world · 85 pts · 203d
But once you pop, you just can't stop.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 203d
I don't know. I hear they're pretty rich.
grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one · 7 pts · 203d
I keep telling yas, them damn oligarchs have way too much gristle!
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 203d
Gotta trim the fat you know
mr_account@lemmy.world · 57 pts · 203d
Not to be disrespectful to Japan, but it's like the dropping of the atom bombs in WW2: the first one sends the message that we have the power to do it, the second sends the message that we're not afraid to keep doing it
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 203d
We eat the top 3 billionaires each year, redistribute their wealth, and watch them all climb over each other for the #4 spot
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 14 pts · 203d
All they have to do is give away enough to not be billionaires anymore. Seems more than fair.
athatet@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 203d
I like this. The Hungry Games.
grissino@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 203d
Awesome 👍🏼 🤣🤣🤣
scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 203d
The modified Athenian model, I support it.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 203d
We eat the top 10 at least. Any less and the message won't be clear.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 203d
Luigi shot one, they only upped their security. We must not stop at one.
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works · 34 pts · 203d
Brian Thompson only had a net worth of $43m when he died.
That is mere pocket change to the actual Billionaire class, where the three most wealthy individuals on this planet each extract $40m+ of interest on their net worth PER DAY.
Scrollone@feddit.it · 13 pts · 203d
Damn, imagine if people actually kidnapped Elon Musk and ate it live
DakRalter@thelemmy.club · 11 pts · 203d
They'd get sick from food poisoning and ketamine overdose.
Scrollone@feddit.it · 7 pts · 203d
Also, is erectile disfunction contagious?
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 203d
Well first of all he's entirely innocent. So jot that down.
But if someone like Luigi had killed that CEO, that still wouldn't be the same as a billionaire.
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 203d
We didn't eat him. I really think it's the cannibalism that sends the message.
qyron@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 203d
Holy cow and sacred broccoli.
Kuru is a thing.
Let's not do that. Let's put them to work. Proper work. Like plowing fields. By hand. Under the sun. From sun up to sun down.
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 203d
I know many hungry dogs that would be fine with it
In fact, billionaire dog chow sounds like a great treat.
qyron@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 203d
I wouldn't give to mine. Too high of a risk of them getting sick.
Jax@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 203d
Kuru happens when you eat brains, just don't eat brains and you'll be ok.
I wouldn't expect more value from their physical labor.
qyron@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 203d
This is about value. It's about pure, unadultered, punishment.
rozodru@piefed.social · 6 pts · 203d
that's the point, it can't be just one. has to be at least two or three.
After the first one they did get scared like you said. Even the health insurance companies got a bit scared and for a brief time they started "doing good". briefly. then they waited. no one else got whacked. so it was back to the "norm".
You gotta cull a few of them in order for things to change.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 203d
That one wasn't eaten.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 203d
CEOs aren't often billionaires, they 100% do the whipping for them though
Eldritch@piefed.world · 2 pts · 203d
Once is an outlier. Twice is a coincidence. Three or more is a threat.
zd9@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 203d
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bookmeat@lemmynsfw.com · 25 pts · 203d
Which one? WHICH ONE?
Theprogressivist@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 203d
Definitely Musk being a top contender for billionaire stew.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 11 pts · 203d
Can't we eat one that actually looks like they might taste good, tho? 😩
TheGoldenV@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 203d
Hunger is the best spice and the people are very hungry.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 203d
None of them do though.
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 203d
Our other top contenders are Bezos and Gates. For a proper stew, you want the fat to render into the sauce, so that disqualifies them both.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 203d
That piece of chemical waste? God knows how much drugs these degenerates have in their system.
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 203d
Going to be difficult finding a billionaire that doesn't fall into this category.
I'm good with getting a little high off ketamine if it means Musk gets turned into a hobbit stew.
chocrates@piefed.world · 3 pts · 203d
What about Ellison?
DixieNornus@piefed.social · 2 pts · 203d
Not eating anything with the name musk especially preceded by Elon. Elongated musk stew sounds gross AF
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 203d
The top one, Elon.
RustyShackleford@piefed.social · 24 pts · 203d
I want to try some, are we going with a stew, spit-roast, stir-fry, braised, confit, steamed, ceviche, schnitzel, kebab or tandoori?
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 203d
I'd make a joke about spit-roasting Peter Theil but I don't want him to sic Hulk Hogan on me.
Fortunately, Hulk is dead. But now I forgot the joke.
RustyShackleford@piefed.social · 11 pts · 203d
Feel free to add or edit it if you come up with it.
JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 203d
Every year we wicker man the wealthiest person and their wealth gets used for social programs until poverty (i.e. food water shelter medical insecurities) is eliminated.
swiftywizard@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 203d
Billionaire Royale.
One enters the danger zone at X dollar. They make money with speculation and interest, so they have to donate / get rid of it before the countdown stops.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 203d
Floating wealth cap. The richest person in the country is responsible for everyone's health care. When their wealth is depleted to #2's level, #2 starts sharing the load.
Keep adding social programs until everyone is down to #1000's level.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 203d
I like this, but let’s take the top ten and do a roulette type thing.
Or maybe we make them compete. Maybe make it like some kinda whose line is it any improv, but with call-in voting. Or like Wipeout. (But still with the call in voting.)
nonentity@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 203d
Don’t eat shit, mulch the rich. Much more entertainment potential, and more hygienic.
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 203d
And we get to learn about proper wood chipper safety!
ViceroTempus@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 203d
Real shame we couldn't get everybody to agree that a person is entitled to a bounty. Like take out a Billionaire, and you're entitled to take like 2 million for every billion they were worth, and the rest is redistributed.
I mean just putting the idea out there, and making them think even their secretary or cook might be thinking that 2m+ is looking pretty tasty. They'd live looking over their shoulders their whole life. Could literally be anybody, at anytime, including one of their guards.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 203d
Why do we want the rest to fall in line? Why not just eat them all, and prevent the next billionaire from ever existing in the first place?
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 203d
"fall in line" here means redistribute their unearned wealth
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 203d
it means avoiding being eaten. The People are easily placated. That's how they become billionaires to begin with, no one stops them because shiny thing! The other billionaires would each donate like 10% of their wealth to foundations they already control and people will think that's so fucking awesome of them.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 203d
then we'll eat a second
Darkness343@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 203d
Because billionaires are inevitable thanks to our economic system and the indomitable human spirit.
If we eat them all, they will just keep spawning
balsoft@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 202d
I think "eat the rich" implies also a significant change in the economic system towards something actually democratic and scientific.
Darkness343@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 202d
Democracy was a mistake. It allows any idiot to rule as long as the people choOse them.
We need something like a god emperor ruling upon us or something.
balsoft@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 202d
Neoliberal western democracy is not the only style of democracy possible
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 202d
Only way to do that is through taxes and a world wide wealth cap.
Anyone worth a million dollars has all their next income 100% go to taxes until their worth goes below
Nobody should be able to just gather unlimited resources
SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 203d
One every year until they cease to exist as a concept.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 203d
Jest aside i have often considered a concept where the richest person in the world has half their wealth liquidated and distributed in equal share among the 25% poorest.
We then repeat this process again and again as needed.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 3 pts · 203d
I am thinking one per month, on the first Monday of the month.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 203d
We don’t need to eat them, we need to chop them.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 5 pts · 203d
Yeah, I usually chop my food before cooking. Did you think we were gonna just gnaw all the meat off their bones or smth?
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 203d
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 203d
Once you pop, you can't stop.
modestmeme@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 203d
We need to set an example that will resonate throughout history. So, we eat them all.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 203d
Agreed, im a vegetarian but I’ll take a bite of the billionaire just to prove a point.
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 203d
I've long argued that billionaire flesh is vegan because there is a net negative of suffering when they're consumed.
counterfactual@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 203d
Ew. Prions. Just drown them.
Tonava@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 203d
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 203d
Nonono.
Don’t eat junk food!
Compost and eat the veggies!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 203d
dude i'm returning some billions of dollars worth of bones to the ecosystem. i can eat all the junk food i want.
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 203d
Let them sleep with a fishes.
iamthetot@piefed.ca · 7 pts · 203d
Sorry but nah, it'll take way more than one.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 203d
crazycraw@crazypeople.online · 7 pts · 203d
lots of people serve them.
but someone needs to serve them.
grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one · 4 pts · 203d
I hear polar bears are having a food shortage lately…
HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 203d
The danes ate a politician once, iirc, not sure its kept them in line...
we might need to eat a few
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 203d
Netherlands, ie the Dutch, in 1672.
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HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 203d
so I did not remember correctly
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 203d
If i had one wish to fix the world it would be this:
Every day, the wealthiest person on the planet (no legal trickery allowed) dies a brutal and very public death.
Just keep it going forever. I give it 2 months until we are golden
baltakatei@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 203d
Oligarchs passing a 10 quadrillion coin to one another like a hot potato.
damnedfurry@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 203d
Quick glance at the sidebar:
DixieNornus@piefed.social · 4 pts · 203d
Gross have you seen them? Imagin eating a musk burger..vomit. I'd rather the rat burger from Demolition man.
HK65@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 203d
Sacrifices have to be made for a better world
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 203d
Baker's dozen just to be safe
Chais@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 203d
*dozen✅Sinthesis@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 203d
Fish food
Ioughttamow@fedia.io · 3 pts · 203d
How about billionaire hunger games?
IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 203d
Far to nice.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 202d
As in literally eat one? Ew, I don't want to get billionaire cooties
Can we do something else instead?
SomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 203d
No need to eat them. Just tax them and thier companies into oblivion.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 203d
One for every person ICE killed this year.
Eternal192@anarchist.nexus · 2 pts · 203d
Sure but... which one can we eat without getting food poisoning, if we roasted them and left them outside not even animals would eat that, maybe a bear if it was REALLY hungry, their very existence is poisonous.
hector@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 203d
Nah, need a succession of them. Look at that uhc asshole. If more keep getting popped, maybe. Luigi is being framed so hopefully the real shooter gets another.
hakase@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 203d
mirshafie@europe.pub · 6 pts · 203d
Luigi didn't eat no billionaire.
Luigi has been falsely accused of whacking some goofy millionaire, a mere servant of billionaires. And no eating involved, even in the false accusation!
But more importantly he couldn't have touched that millionaire, because that day me and my boy Luigi Nicholas Mangione were playing Contra and he carried hard. That guy from the insurance company probably just got into some sort of accident.