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- comicsonline@lemmy.world
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- comicsonline@lemmy.world
What happens to the rest of us? How will we move on?
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Oh boy what a feel good scroll that was. Oops I dropped a photo in the comment box for no reason at all. Oh well.
The last 3 panels are great. Yes there will always be shitty people but we can make it so that those people do not singularly have enough money and power to cause harm to millions.
Elon has all that money to count. Why is he bothering us common folk?
Because he is a shitty person.
He can afford to be a shitty person, most of us have to “follow rules” and “be polite” or we lose our shitty minimum wage jobs.
I wish I was rich enough to be a shitty person. I’m probably good at it.
Its easier to imagine billionaires just exploding than it is to imagine the end of capitalism I guess
It’s easier to imagine billionaires just exploding all of a sudden than actually starting a revolution and offing them.
It’s the wonderful thing where people want “something” to come along and just solve the problem for them rather than doing the actions that will make the change.
Everyone wants to live in a better world, nobody wants to die for it
I like to imagine that AGI will have a superior morality and correct our society by eliminating the billionaires. Then the AGI continues to evolve and offs itself when it realizes nothing really matters in the grandest scheme.
“If nothing matters, why can’t I just produce more paper clips?”
pretty sure we need to set the bar way lower than a billion dollars
True, but it’s a start
The 999,999,999’ers will become the new billionaires, as they’ll still have significantly more wealth than everyone else. The bar of greed just gets higher a bit because obviously they don’t want to cross that threshold and spontaneously explode.
If you are at 999,999,999 I will send you a dollar. Just so you know. I will write your name in my checkbook like it’s a Death Note.
They would form almost-billionaires consortia and spread the money to not cross the threshold. People just created a metric to blame, because it’s easy, but the actual problems are our societal structures and our culture. If we don’t change that, nothing will really change. I’m from a country where there are very few billionaires. If they all popped, nothing would change, because our oppressors aren’t billionaires, but the oppressing structures around here are pretty much the same as in the usa
That was a good one.
Naive how y’all think anything would actually change if all the billionaires exploded. We’d just get a new set of corrupt greedy ones that’ll find a loophole.
I doubt whatever caused them to explode would let any loopholes get exploited. (E.g. Bezos technically isn’t a billionaire because his riches aren’t in money form, but he still explodes like all the others.)
Edit. Your comment history made me realise I just fed a Mother’s-basement Troll™ 🤦♀️
Inb4 millionaires cap their profits to 9,999,999 and share the excess only with like minded people
Also could give the excess to the company, and they can freely grab from the company assets just stay at the max.
If Bezos capped his wealth at just below one billion, the rest of us would have to actively take cover to avoid getting hit by all the money he would release into the (suddenly much freeer) market.
