Spread this OC far and wide.

      • SuckMyWang@lemmy.world
        16·
        1 year ago

        I hate this mentality. Government spends 50m on pointless projects like building a giant fan in the desert that does nothing just to create jobs. So 30 people have to build it then other people have to maintain it and clean up the dust it makes. But they created jobs and “kept the economy going strong.” Just give these people the money and let them enjoy themselves. It’s the same underlying concept of UBI. They have more free time to spend their money efficiently that they might actually create something of need. If not at least they’re not forced to waste their fucking time for the sake of numbers on a spreadsheet

      • Zink@programming.dev
        5·
        1 year ago

        Isn’t that exactly where most billionaire’s wealth typically is? A lot is in stock of some company they started or invested in.

        You can’t gobble up the excess value created by workers if there are no workers.

        • WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 year ago

          …unless you gobble up your rivals instead, creating a monopoly, shrinking the job pool through consolidation, sweating the remaining employees that are competing for the vanishing opportunities to keep a roof over their heads, causing market failure and generally fucking everyone over.

          This is the strategy adopted by the likes of Bezos, Zuckerberg, the Waltons, and arguably the majority of the biggest drains on our society. Billionaires

          • Zink@programming.dev
            1·
            1 year ago

            Well yeah, all that consolation and abuse of the working class means more productivity per person, and since we definitely aren’t going to pay them more that means we’re now worth $100 billion versus the measly, honestly embarrassing, ten figures we had a decade ago. Single-digit billions, could you imagine the shame?

            /s but what you describe is honestly seen as a good thing by c-suite sociopaths. The super rich people you mentioned are heroes to them. Such efficient use of capital to create shareholder value!

    • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      1 year ago

      Yep. No pity. There is an upper limit on how much money one person can meaningfully benefit from. And our system creates these insane leaks that pour value into mile-deep, inch-wide holes. It’s honestly a form of waste. Radical capitalists should embrace this idea.

  • MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works
    34·
    1 year ago

    Consider this: a million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 31 years. It really helps me understand just how obscenely wealthy these people are, how much money they are hoarding. They’re leeches.

    • Kingofthezyx@lemm.ee
      8·
      1 year ago

      By that measure, $100,000 a year for 60 years is 70 days.

      And since a billion seconds is 31 years, Musk is worth almost 7000 years.

      • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
        101·
        1 year ago

        There are people on this planet who could give up 90% of their wealth and still ensure a more than comfortable life for themselves and their family, for a dozen generations and more.

        And yet they keep all of it.

        Then you’ll have the people defending them with the good old argument that no one should be expected to give up their hard-earned wealth.

        Sure, except these twats „earned“ it through exploitation and misery. No one gets this filthy rich with honest and fair work, that’s not how the game works.

  • Nora@sh.itjust.works
    215·
    1 year ago

    Can we just get here already, these memes are nice, but where are the actual guillotines?

      • ThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.works
        272·
        1 year ago

        God I’m so sick of this take.

        We’re not anti second amendment we’re anti idiots with guns.

        If you can’t pass a background check or a psychological evaluation you shouldn’t own a gun.

        “bUt CrImInAlS-” shut the fuck up. Yeah criminals will still get guns but it’ll be a lot fucking harder for them to obtain them.

        • SupraMario@lemmy.world
          14·
          1 year ago

          Who’s giving the psy eval? Is it Jim Bob from the county who hates blacks and LGBTQ+? So he denies all those applications and allows just his white friends to get firearms?

          And no it will not make it harder for them to get firearms. There are 450+ million of them get over it.

        • pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz
          410·
          1 year ago

          Meaning now the state gets to dictate who gets to have weapons, making violent revolution impossible.

          The police are full of right wingers. What makes you think they won’t simply label all left-wingers as mentally ill, deny you access to weapons and then kill you all?

          This is gonna be a bitter pill for you to swallow, but protecting people’s basic human rights is more important than lowering gun deaths. And you refuse to accept that at your own peril.

          • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
            63·
            1 year ago

            An idiot with a gun isn’t going to help with any of that.

            They will rather make it worse.

            Stop allowing crazy people access to offensive weapons.

            • pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz
              24·
              1 year ago

              A dedicated group of marginalized people with guns will, though, and that is what gun bans – I’m not gonna let you lie and ca it gun control anymore – is intended to prevent.

              Stop trying to force me to submit to your opinion.

              You’re not in the real world where you can shout and use violence, and bold text does not substitute for that

              • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                Do we have car bans (for the general populace, not people who were banned because they committed a crime) because you have to be licensed to use one?

                • pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz
                  3·
                  1 year ago

                  Do I waste my time arguing about gun control to someone who is clearly not listening and who clearly only cares about themself and their political cause at the expense of reality, human rights and human life?

      • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
        112·
        1 year ago

        I love firearms. They’re fun. However, they’re also dangerous, to yourself and others. I believe there should be requirements for background checks, mental health evaluations, and also mandatory training in the operation, maintaince, storage (1776 is not a good combination, and firearms are the most stolen items), and transportation of your firearm, as well as training on the legality of its usage, all of which is tested and must be passed. This should probably be funded with taxes as well, to ensure poor people aren’t deprived of their rights.

        To claim this position is “anti-2A” is disingenuous at best. Hell, the 2A is written in a way that I don’t think it applies anymore (the protection of a free State does not require a well regulated militia if we have a standing professional military, which wasn’t expected to be a thing at the time), but I still think firearm ownership shouldn’t be banned. It should be regulated, like car ownership is which is almost required to live life in the US and is designed for transportation, not killing things.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I agree, but this is an image, not a guillotine. Maybe you could argue the image of a guillotine could lead to similar methods being used if a revolution happens, but I don’t know if that’s worth discussing in depth. As a tool to transport a message, I think a guillotine is valid. As a method of murder, probably not.

  • poszod@lemmy.world
    138·
    1 year ago

    Garbage, low effort, polarising post that does nothing to further the actually important antiwork movement.

  • pascal@lemm.eeEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    We didn’t chose our leaders. Leaders got billions because we chose to do nothing.

    Why do you think corporations strive in America and at the same time the people gets the shit (bad labour laws, bad healthcare, bad wages) compared to Europe? Because they’re better?

    Fuck no, it’s because of Europe. The founding fathers created a “weak” government on purpose, leaving the power to we the people. Why do you think we’re the only country in the world with a Second Amendment?

    (Except Mexico and Guatemala but that’s a different story…)

    But guess what, Americans are lazy, we had a duty and we didn’t answer the call… so who filled the hole? People with ambitions. And people with ambitions create companies, and companies value profits, not wellbeing.

    We didn’t chose billionaires. Billionaires got billions because we chose to do nothing.

  • TylerDurdenJunior@lemmy.ml
    33·
    1 year ago

    Speaking of guillotines…

    Can anyone here edit videos?

    I have an original piece of music of about 1 minute length, I was hoping to work with someone on adding images of rich people mixed what short clips of a rising guillotine blade or something like that.

    The audio is ready. I was thinking of editing some video for it myself, but it is not really my area of expertise…

  • krzschlss@lemmy.world
    24·
    1 year ago

    But you did choose those leaders, by accepting the two party system and always voting for the lesser evil. The phenomenon of ‘the lesser evil’ isn’t born out of necessity, it is manufactured, so the people who have money can earn even more wealth and power every 4 years by giving you their option for leadership.

    I like the idea of the guillotine, but those blades have never been sharpened in the US… you always liked your less evil leaders.

  • atomicfox@lemm.ee
    511·
    1 year ago

    Yep, sending them to the guillotine is certain to solve…what problem, exactly?