An AI startup founder says he's planning a 'March for Billionaires' in protest of California's wealth tax
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/an-ai-startup-founder-says-hes-planning-a-march-for-billionaires-in-protest-of-californias-wealth-tax/
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etchinghillside@reddthat.com · 149 pts · 205d
I assume they just hire people to march on their behalf.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 83 pts · 205d
And then stiff them on their pay.
Lodespawn@aussie.zone · 55 pts · 205d
You laugh but here in Australia when the Labor government was pushing for a Minerals Resources Rent Tax (MRRT) the big miners made their staff go attend a "protest" on Perth Foreshore during business hours.
vpol@feddit.uk · 127 pts · 205d
I see a bunch of billionaires in one place as an opportunity.
markz@suppo.fi · 40 pts · 205d
Like the guy wouldn't just pay a bunch of people to show up
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 205d
Actually came here to say this. This will be like those "supporters" that showed up to watch Pedonald come down that escalator. Paid actors.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 204d
It'll never happen, this is just performative cuntishness.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 16 pts · 205d
9 out of 10 who claim to be billionaires at that march, won't be billionaires.
And the other one is lying, too.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 205d
Doesn't matter to the hammer.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 204d
99,999 out of 100,000, more like.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 205d
I think that's exactly why they probably won't have any showing up.
Or else they send proxies. If I was some assistant for one of these fuckers and they asked me to go, I think I'd call in sick that day. No way I'd want to be a meat shield for one of these dickheads.
atropa@piefed.social · 10 pts · 205d
vpol@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 205d
Eggs? You guys need drones. Lots and lots of them. Now.
atropa@piefed.social · 7 pts · 205d
vpol@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 205d
Bacon must be crispy.
atropa@piefed.social · 3 pts · 205d
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 205d
Surely not like that scene in season 3 of Lioness in Mexico? We definitely should not model the approach on that scene. That would be theoretically wrong.
ameancow@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 205d
atropa@piefed.social · 2 pts · 205d
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 205d
Eggs? In this economy?
atropa@piefed.social · 4 pts · 205d
nixfreak@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 205d
Yep hopefully they cluster together
in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social · 61 pts · 205d
I'll bring the guillotine.
AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 205d
Someone should have one pre-built and waiting at the end point of their march route.
coalie@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 205d
Why wait for the end? Corral them in at the start and funnel them into a wood chipper.
AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 205d
I like where your head's at.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 205d
Guillotine - The Coup
in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social · 1 pts · 205d
I miss Oakland
friendlycheese@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 205d
Bring the large suv
AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 205d
Wow.
Turns out, if you try hard enough, you can find a protest that you want your police state to crack down on.
If only one more rally ever gets tear-gassed, I hope it's this one.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 205d
It won't. But the counter protesters will.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 205d
We should schedule a march for guillotines that same day
Etterra@discuss.online · 19 pts · 205d
MOARbid1@piefed.social · 34 pts · 205d
Yes, get them all in one place…
ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 205d
“Vilifying billionaires is popular. Losing them is expensive.”
If this isn't a Honeypot it is absolutely hilarious that think that billionaires being "lost" is them leaving the country/state
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 205d
It sounds like yet another dumbass that had their brain scrambled by the horrible sci-fi writer named Ayn Rand, who was even worse at philosophy than she was at writing prose. Surprised they aren't just outright saying they are threatening to "go Galt". 🙄
ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 205d
Atlas Shrugged is insufferably pretentious trash.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 205d
I could not agree more. At one point, I was Libertarian and was always told what great lit it was and it would explain so much, etc. Some time later I was no longer Libertarian and doing lots and lots of reading due to a layoff and trying to find something positive (and free, thanks to good libraries) to fill my time with in between responding to recruiters and job interviews, etc.
I decided I'd finally read Atlas Shrugged. The magnum opus. The book so many Libertarians point to. I had the time and the library had the book, so why not?
And....oh gawd. What drivel. What a shitty philosophical system. I had to force myself to finish reading it. LOL. And then shortly after, I started seeing all these "who's John Galt?" and "gone Galt" stickers on cars.
Gag.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 205d
They've been huffing their own farts for so long, they don't know what clean air smells like.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 205d
and having sycophants telling that they dont smell anything, or it smells good.
njm1314@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 205d
You're saying you're going to get them all in the same place huh? Excellent.
art@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 205d
I'm here for the march, where do I park my Cybertruck?
LordMayor@piefed.social · 26 pts · 205d
Just leave it in that bicycle lane over there. There’s room on the crosswalk.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 205d
the cybertruck doubles as a charcuterie cutter, might be useful.
qarbone@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 205d
In the middle of their march, if you could.
HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 205d
The stupidity is palpable.
baller_w@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 205d
Luigi intensifies…
henfredemars@infosec.pub · 17 pts · 205d
So what, there’d be dozens at best, and the rest hired? Fuck billionaire thieves. They shouldn’t exist.
nixfreak@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 205d
Fuck billionaires completely.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 205d
I'll eat my car is there is a single Billionaire spends any amount of time at these protests
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 205d
I agree. I'd be surprised if even some centimillionaires would be there...I imagine seeing counterprotesters up close and personal would be a frightening prospect for them.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 205d
I'm told by a neighbor, she used to live in the neighborhood where this clownshow is starting his March, that it's a reasonably affluent area and several billionaires do actually live there. I suspect you are absolutely correct and none of them will show. Wish it wasn't quite so far away, but there's no way I could get to SF quick enough to watch the shenanigans that this is gonna cause.
ameancow@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 205d
peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 205d
Nuke them all from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 205d
LOL, this is going to be hilarious.
I seem to remember some group would dress up in top hats and monocles with satirical signs supporting the parasitic elite.
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 205d
That's not funny. But the billionaires should still march. They might be surprised how many people will gladly come and help march them through the streets.
santa@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 205d
The march will be online of ai generative clones of 1 million Eric’s!
Rooty@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 205d
I stopped reading after "AI startup".Everything these clowns do is a publicity stunt aimed at sucking up VC money and splitting before the jig is up.
RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 205d
Someone needs to invent a launch-and-forget autonomous drone model named Luigi.
qarbone@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 205d
Beat him to death, with hammers.
Derpenheim@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 205d
The one march that wont have any threats of violence against it, because the people that do that are bootlickers
twinnie@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 205d
Didn’t I see a post earlier from someone saying they made this website to get them all in one place?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 205d
they certainly were all in one place with epstein on many occasions.
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 205d
Life imitates art https://youtu.be/hrGdEwV-efs
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 205d
An Appeal on Behalf of Extremely Rich People
nonentity@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 205d
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.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
LoonyLenny@lemdro.id · 6 pts · 205d
nonentity@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 205d
Every healthy society needs a robust guillotine maintenance and repair workforce.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 204d
Rope is cheaper and more readily available.
nonentity@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 204d
It’s a job guarantee program, and you can only legitimately claim something is expensive when you don’t properly value what it does.
PMP@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 205d
It will be held here followed by afternoon tea and their choice of Epstein delights.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 205d
Surely millions of people will protest on their behalf. It's not like they're going to get their fat asses out there.
Avicenna@programming.dev · 3 pts · 205d
You will get couple hundered people and thousands of new ICE recruits
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 205d
its like the guy that want a pro-rape rally, but cancelled later on because it pussied out.
dandylion@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 205d
their money is made of shit
sircac@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 205d
They may call that a walk among the plebe, the 1% march doubt could be larger than a neighbourhood meeting...