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    5 months ago

    Wait, building schools and hospitals with lead? Seems like a bad idea but let’s do it. Can’t be much worse than what they have planned for us

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    5 months ago

    I don’t think building hospitals with billionaire filled lead is a good idea.

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    We don’t need their money to pay for any of that, not providing them is an exclusively political choice.

    The only justification needed to take their money is because them having it is an existential crisis for society.

    It should be proportionally more expensive to remain rich.

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      As long as my band can still be “Surprise Blueberry Buttsex”

      Sorry. I forgot. My band name is Cheesy McSneezer and the Cheesy McSneezer 7".

      It would be a big lounge style band, where the songs are all covers of popular songs of the time, except dung in a lounge band style. The songs would all be sung by one guy, with a distinctive voice.

      But every live show, there would be a new reason why Cheesy McSneezer couldn’t be there that night. So instead, please welcome a one night only replacement of (insert famous singer from other famous band).

      Nobody would know what Cheesy looks like, or who he is, but every night the replacement is different, and every night the reason he can’t be there is different.

  • potoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    If we’re workshopping names, Boil the Billionaire has nice alliteration.

    “I’m Mark Summers and Welcome to…”

    Live Audience: “BOIL!”

    Live Audience: “THE!”

    Live Audience: “BILLIONAIRE!”

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      5 months ago

      Depends what you define as landlord.

      Guy who owns 2-3 duplexes in the city? Nah.

      Big time landlord who makes hundreds of thousands of dollars from thousands of properties? BOIL EM!!!

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        5 months ago

        the guy who owns 2-3 duplexes can (and are incentivised) to be as cruel and inhumane as possible by the same capitalist forces.

        if you ask me, rent shouldn’t be a thing. once you paid the value of the house in rent you should be able to claim it as your own.

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          Based on that definition you never stop paying. Homes values constantly go up. My dad bought a house in the 1970s. 33k.

          Today the house has a value of 300k. Took him 30 years to pay off the original mortgage.

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            part of the reason house prices are always on the up, is because they agree considered an investment not a basic necessity. so there’s no interest in building more.

            a house shouldn’t cost more than construction cost.

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        It still staggers me how quickly some people’s opinions on landlords changes when they see the money. A bunch of otherwise stand up fellas are now dreaming of using their retirement investments to ‘buy some houses, rent them out for the passive income,’ and another of the group who says his dream is to buy/own an apartment complex, all the while salivating at the money.

        Most of us are trying to play in a game we hate… where not playing means suffering. I don’t really see just owning rental properties to be worthy of the billionaire boil. Hold them accountable for every scummy practice and ounce of harm caused by greed seeking, but not merely for renting housing out.

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        Exactly. I’m living in a triplex that sold for $1.4 million last year. My rent is less than 1/3 a 30 year mortgage (with a 3.5% down payment). My old landlord set the right price. I hope my new landlord does the same.

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        Yeah. We give the guy who owns 2-3 duplexes the chance to work and return the years of labor he stole from others. His sins can be still be repaid.

        But if he resist. Well…

        https://youtu.be/OjNpRbNdR7E

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    This is fantasy, I do not condone violence.

    I want them to fight to the death in an arena. There’s about 800 of them in America. We could set up a tournament bracket, there are plenty for every city to get a live performance. If they refuse to fight, they’re both beheaded. The whole thing would be televised. Viewership would break world records. The champion gets life in prison.

    It would start here, but like any good reality show, it would expand worldwide.

    It would stay active, when two people are discovered to be in control of over a billion–because you know they won’t be able to resist, and they’ll do their best to hide it, thinking they’ll get away with it–they’ll be rounded up and paired off.

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    I like it, but it needs some work to give it staying power. I say start with 1 billionaire, then once they’ve gotten a good, front-row whiff of the consequences, we start a blind bidding war for social services, a different one each episode. Whoever has the lowest bid gets a new and excruciating ending at the end of each episode. The one guy left standing at the end gives up his money for the final program, but gets to walk out alive.