Comment on A Tax of 5% on The World’s Multi-Millionaires and Billionaires Could Raise $1.7 trillion, Enough to Lift 2 Billion People out of Poverty

zcd@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  You do realize that their money doesn’t go back into the economy when they die, right? They have living wills. It’s not like you can kill a billionaire and all their money spews out like Sonic the Hedgehog’s rings.

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  • Jerkface@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    You just keep eating the heirs until it all ‘trickles down’, you see.

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  • Lennnny@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Sounds to me like it’s a well stocked food supply then.

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    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Or it’s a funny thing to write that distracts us from actionable solutions.

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  • taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I’m sure the contingency is eating the inheritors until no one is left. It’s billionaires all the way down!

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  • RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Don’t worry. We’ll make it a “Family Dinner” 🤫🔪

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  • some_designer_dude@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    You don’t eat them to liberate their money. You eat them to show others of their kind what happens to those who hoard wealth away from the needy.

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    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      And that compels their peers to be charitable to the murderous cannibals how?

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      • Apollo42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Perhaps a slight aversion to being the 2nd course.

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  • zcd@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Billionaire day repeats anytime someone crosses over the threshold

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• Illuminostro@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Dark.

    Just the way I like my baby meat.

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