Comment on What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die?

j4k3@piefed.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• CM400@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This. I’d much rather see them suffer being poor for a while before learning they can be reasonably happy at the level most people are at, and using their seized assets to bring the poorest up to a livable level.

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  • flamiera@kbin.melroy.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah but, how likely is it that they'll ever see such a fate?

    Next to zero. This is all just fantasizing.

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    • FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So you think government execution of the elite is realistic?

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• starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That would be great, of course, but history tells us they either get away with it and die (sometimes) peacefully in their sleep or they’re killed by a mob.

  I like the way Stalin went. “Oh no, he fell down, call a doctor.” Doctors (who had been relentlessly persecuted): “We’re not treating him, bugger off.” Stalin’s cronies: “Whelp, we’ll just put him to bed and see what happens.”

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And their nuts.

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