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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Rajtinka@lemmy.world · 136 pts · 197d
Yes! Let's get the billionaires all in one place. I'm hungry!!
TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id · 18 pts · 197d
Bilderberg Conference
monkeyFromTheLake@programming.dev · 2 pts · 197d
I'll bring a bell!
gratux@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 113 pts · 197d
FireRetardant@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 197d
Like 3 people will show up and they'll probably back the tax off anyway cause they were so polite and moving with their peaceful demonstration.
I sincerely hope I'm wrong.
Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 197d
They might start a big grassroots movement. Artificially. You might call it a turfgrass movement. Maybe use a genericized brand name. That seems fitting
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 197d
Another tea party, oh boy.
saltesc@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 197d
Yes.
But it'll be the most extravagant protest ever. The who's who will be there. No doubt, down Rodeo Drive,. The lenses of every contributor to your feed algorithm. The best of
opinion piecesjournalism.kboos1@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 197d
So we can all line up to throw garbage at them? You know, return the favor.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 30 pts · 197d
That would involve billionaires showing up in a public protest.
Zorque@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 197d
Nah, they pay people to do it, like in Mexico
LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 197d
I don't think these rattle heads, actually plan to march, I think he thinks he will order a march, and all the people currently marching that he sees, love him so much and support his "deserving" lifestyle so much, they'll all march for him. He's putting in orders for you to march for him, on his behalf, and he absolutely believes it'll happen in troves.
SippyCup@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 197d
I would march.
200 bucks an hour I'll walk around a bit and pretend to give a shit.
I will also say things that when taken out of context will sound fucking awful and when in context will sound extremely suspicious.
zbyte64@awful.systems · 8 pts · 196d
I would march too, it's too easy to satire the movement. Signs like "Bill Gates did nothing wrong on Epstein's Island" or "Peter Thiel is not a vampire" seem like a good fit for the event.
LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 196d
This would be hilarious!
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 25 pts · 197d
perfect opportunity to become an actual paid protester
wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io · 13 pts · 197d
Which chamber you plan on running in? House or senate?
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 197d
Yes, get billionaires into the streets and marching.
I predict this will do wonders for the compacting roller market.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 197d
Think of the egg industry! It can't handle the buyer pressure in the days up to these events.
Drusas@fedia.io · 1 pts · 197d
brb, buying rotten tomatoes
BillyClark@piefed.social · 22 pts · 197d
Ooh, the headline is slightly misleading. It should say, "A desperate nobody who sees his misguided startup failing starts a self-promotion campaign to try to get money from rich people."
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 196d
So they'll all be in one place?
Notify antifa! Unleash the meteor!
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 197d
I'd love too watch 20 billionaires walk in a group
Such temptation
HowAbt2day@futurology.today · 5 pts · 197d
The other name for the march is the “MAGA bootlickers march”.
vga@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 197d
There will be more security around them than what the US president gets when he goes out.
mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org · 18 pts · 196d
As long as it leads them torwards a guillotine, I'm all in, I guess?
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 197d
Is this guy dumb or secretly anti-billionaire? Gathering a bunch of billionaires in a small area, walking slowly in public streets, specifically to rally in favor of billionaire in this political climate. I would be more surprised if a shooter DIDNT take the opportunity.
deathbird@mander.xyz · 14 pts · 196d
I'm greatly amused by the thought of a march that could not be more than 3,028 people.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 196d
I feel like the target audience is "temporarily embarrassed [billionaires]"^[1]
That is, people who are not billionaires, but like to imagine themselves as having the ability to become one.
[1] the original quote that this is from uses "millionaires" but years of the upwards flow of wealth meant the quote needed some updating.
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 196d
Update - The Bootlickers were sent out instead
khannie@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 197d
Can you imagine the size of the counter-demonstration. I really hope this goes ahead.
Drusas@fedia.io · 3 pts · 197d
That would be amazing. Like 20 multimillionaires and one billionaire show up and then....
Ringtail@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 196d
Came here to say the same, theyll all be out in the streets without the protection of their mansions
khannie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 196d
Why do these people hate us so mu....
OOF. OUCH.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 197d
The only march where you can be certain if it’s more than 5 people they’re paid protestors.
hector@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 197d
That would be a shame if during their march they got ambushed with masses of egg throwing counter protesters that pelted them all mercilessly with eggs, and maybe water baloons.
nonentity@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 196d
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.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 196d
notsosure@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 197d
All medical personal report to sickbay 15 immediately.
WraithGear@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 196d
yes, put them all together in one place, in the open
nonentity@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 196d
Every healthy society needs a robust guillotine maintenance and repair workforce.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 197d
Not news. No need to advertise this
Grimy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 197d
I'm all for it
Drusas@fedia.io · 2 pts · 197d
What's this from?
badabim@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 196d
It's from The Long Walk
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 195d
Next they'll be having a pro-tapeworm march.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 196d
That's still not gonna get him that vc cash