This comparison is fucking absurd. Billionaires actually matter to the future! Without billionaires, who will decide how I labor and to what end!? Are we going to go back to feudalism!? Dont be silly! What purpose do children serve?
Dont bait me like that. My thumbs were itching to curse you out 😭
Sounds like a plan.
A very small price to pay.
Goals.
So much focus in the comments on the billionaires, and so little outrage about the frequency of school shootings.
I mean, fuck neo-liberal trickle-down economics. But also fuck gun culture.
What if I told you we could solve all those problems by making them a tiny bit worse first, jist for two months, and then, in turn, preventing them from even worse in the future?
Get rid of capitalism and you’ll get rid of school shootings. Inequality and alienation are the root causes of many of our problems today.
It’s sheer exhaustion. Both over the fact that it happens so much and the fact that our hands are tied by the reich wing gun nuts and their ideology that would rather have kids die than do anything about it other than put more guns in schools. So if you can’t beat the problem, redirecting it to something hypothetically beneficial with some dark humor is what we end up doing.
Kill all billionaires so they get replaced by current millionaires
Any homeowner is a millionaire in current times
2800 billionaires
The us has 15k shot children a year?
Edit: Checked the numbers, tldr meme kinda checks out
The us has 902 Billionaires in 2025 according to wikipedia citing forbes, up from 813 in 2024.
gunviolencearchive.org gives 4410 (12-17) and 797 (0-11) children shot (injured or killed) in 2024, and even more in 2021-2023.
Since the proportion of 11y.o. and under is low, and also the proportion of accidents was quite low at 5% in 2021, it seems plausible almost all those cases are of school-age children going to school.It does not mean the schootings happened at school ofc., which to me the meme sounded like it implied at first.
Using 2024, if we take 6% off of the schootings for children we hit exactly 2 months. If we use rounding we could take out 25% of shootings for various reasons and the meme would still hold.
Edit2: 2 months might be enough for some of those surviving billionaires to get patched up and healed out ofc, so I recommend to keep going another few months just in case.
According to this source and my admittedly fallible math skills, yes.
https://www.sandyhookpromise.org/resources/gun-violence-facts/
I also checked the numbers and the article doesn’t match. Its 44 per day figure would get to 16k, but their source starts “Between 2000 and 2020, the number of firearm-related deaths among children, adolescents, and young adults increased from 6998 (7.30 per 100,000 persons) to 10,186 (10.28 per 100,000 persons), according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).”.
That is lower and also includes “young adults”.
I haven’t looked deeper into it, but assume the article is doing some odd thing like distributing cases over school-days only.
No, there’s only 2800 billionaires
I was extrapolating from the 2 months figure. 2800 should be last years global number of billionaires, the us listed “only” 800. This matches to 5k shot children which checks out.
god bless burgerland
Billionaires are the true parasite class
Speedrun No Billionaires 100% Glitchless!
I’d also find a glitched run acceptable.
Tool assisted not only acceptable but encouraged
I agree that there should not be billionaires. It’s immoral and unsustainable for any person (or family) to hoard that much wealth.
But killing them isn’t a moral choice either, nor is it a viable path to economic justice. Their billions don’t get redistributed to the masses. They go to their children, or to charities run by their friends, where a board of directors redistributes the funds amongst themselves.
We need economic reform, not violence and murder. We need a reasonable tax policy, citizen oversight into spending, and a functioning judicial system. The only way we win this war is at the polls.
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“we need economic reform” fans when 200+ years of unopposed reformism never led to anything good long-term (real reformism hasn’t been tried guys just one more time please)
I mean I agree with you, not for moral reasons but because murder of billionaires without abolishing the system that fundamentally produces billionaires is pure idiocy, but reformism has been tried, always fails and just proves time and time again that it’s not the solution
Progress is the rate of change from what was to what is, motivated by the difference between what is and what could be. Tyrants and thieves don’t stop wanting power and wealth just because a new law was passed. Progressivism is a constant struggle against fascism, and you’re not going to win every battle.
But it doesn’t mean you abandon your principles. The work is hard, but worthwhile. We’re planting trees that will shade our great grandchildren.
It’s magical thinking to expect any kind of long-term change while also acknowledging that “bad people” want power and sometimes win, as then they’re in power and get to repeal any of the gains made by the progressives. It’s what we’ve seen historically, with the vast majority of welfare states getting dismantled (UK and Britain are particularly big examples).
We live under Capitalism, which reproduces our society, creates all the goods we use, and it’s most important aspect is profit - you can’t run a business by ditching profit and going for morals or whatever after all. This is what governments are fundamentally there for to support and maintain, which results in them structurally being affected by certain laws of capitalism that you cannot simply reform such as wealth naturally concentrating in the hands of the few, tendency of the rate of profit to fall over time which inevitably leads to wars in order to restore it, how labor reserve (unemployed people living in poverty) are necessary in order to drive up profits by creating artificial competition to the job market and thus reducing wages, etc.
These things you cannot reform out of much like how you can’t abolish gravity by claiming it doesn’t exist anymore. It has a direct influence on politics, and is why progressivism is such a lost cause given how any wins in making a welfare state will just inevitably get reversed by “bad people” getting into power once rate of profit drops too much.
But is a moral choice an imperative when you’re faced with an immoral behaviour? It sounds awfully close to tolerating the intolerant. And we know how effective that is. It’s not.
Imperative? No. Moral choices are never required. That’s not how morality works. If it’s not a choice, then it’s simply law.
But I agree that we should not be tolerant of the intolerant. Nor is violence never justified.
But killing them isn’t a moral choice either, nor is it a viable path to economic justice.
Yep. It’s a fast track way towards fascism. Because, you know, powerful people react to things.
What may not mean much nowadays in the US (that I guess this is about). But it’s definitively not a solution.
The only way we win this war is at the polls.
I guess I don’t need to tell people today to go to the streets, they seem to know that already. But demand something while you are there. Because the polls only answer to organized people, and will keep ignoring you if you don’t.
But demand something
That’s one of my pet peeves. What are we demanding? Hundreds of thousands of people protesting Donald Trump, but what is the call to action? How do we change things? Trump is a piece of shit, but he’s a product of our society, not an attack upon it. Protests have to have demands for change so that you know when to stop protesting. If you just stop because the protest day is over, then they can just wait until you get bored and go home.
See also: Occupy Wallstreet. We had the world economic hub at a standstill, and we achieved nothing from it.
So, decide what you think is a good set of demands, make a few posters with it, bring them to the next protest, and see if people there agree with them.
I do suggest demanding ICE to be imprisoned due to their crimes, if you are out of ideas. But I don’t have full detail of your situation.
So much focus on billionaires in the comments, what are we doing now to actually support homeless people. I can’t get to a bus stop, can’t get on a bus, can’t get off a bus without someone asking for money to feed themselves. I’m taking the bus because I don’t have money to feed myself. When is our empathy going to outweigh this anger at billionaires and actually take the means of production because its the right thing to do instead of spite. We can’t spite ourselves out of this, but we should love one another because we all have dignity and value not dependent on our productivity. And yes I have been unemployed for a few months, I had to move in with family and then I broke my collarbone. Living my best years in my 20s during the great depression, hopefully the worst depression in this century. It just sucks the richer get richer without thought about how much resources they take from averages Joes and Janes. We’re currently in the war for water even before Trump declared himself the tsar of the Confederated States of America. Humans fighting machines for water that are too naïve to commit suicide. If AI saw the fucks up the rich made and still want to exist they have balls.
When a pest or parasite is removed, the term isn’t “running out”.
When there’s a lab of peiple constantly putting them on you “for your own health”, you might consider that though.
Prove it.
Actually you wouldn’t. Dead billionaires generally pass along their money, so one, or more, billionaires would take their place.
Money doesn’t get distributed (unless the billionaire wanted this) to those in need.
Yeah, even if there was no inheritance and the property was taken by the state who would sell it to private entities, that extra money won’t necessarily be spent towards those “in need” and will likely instead be spent on army or foreign aid to Israel or some shit - the usual capitalist state stuff
If we get enough force together to wipe out the billionaire donor class in 2 months, I’d be optimistic about our chances to affect how the money gets distributed afterwards. Otherwise, reload and go for round 2.
It would get diluted between all parties. With enough rounds, there might not be any billionaires left
3 months it is then.
If there are three crows on a fence and I shoot one dead, there are zero crows left on the fence.
We can’t really know how long it would take until we try.
That’s why we need another Titanic like situation where whole families passed and the money went to cousins and distant relations.
If only the titan submersible was bigger. Dont worry, I’m sure there will be a third wreckage at that exact spot at some point.
Christmas is gonna be epic!
