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

• 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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