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[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 100 points 2 months ago (12 children)

Says while paying money to the person they’re telling about for a blue marker

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[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 79 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As long as a single human being is homeless or hungry, billionaires should not exist.

[–] Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 66 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Billionaires shouldn't exist. Period.

[–] szczuroarturo@programming.dev 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Technicaly That is very dependent on the value of currency current or future one

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 23 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I guess it could be said that the sort of wealth disparity that we have shouldn't exist

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[–] glorkon@lemmy.world 69 points 2 months ago

Americans be like

[–] VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 52 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My vote is for the punisher tbh

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Would love to see someone come up with a simple, yet easy to parse in single color, graphic of punisher killing a cop that we could put next to the logo on those trucks.

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

So we're going to support a democratic system to tax people and service the underprivileged, right?

We're going to do that, right?

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Sounds good to me

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[–] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

We got all the dystopia and none of the cool futuretech.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Low latency cell phone coverage anywhere on the planet using LEO satellites is undeniably cool future tech.

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[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

Exactly. I would like cybernetic arms and legs and eyes that let me scan everything. But instead we get the most boring dystopia.

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

No, see, I made all my money by inheriting it, and because I'm rich and wealthy that means that god must love me, and therefore I must be a good person inherently. People are poor because god doesn't love them, therefore they must be bad people. Duh. /s

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[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The real question is how do you define best system. I bet those billionaires think this is in fact a pretty good system. Though they are probably never satisfied, so they wouldn't say best until they could snap thier fingers and a million people would start working to make whatever idea popped into thier head happen.

[–] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gatcha addicts.

All of them. Gambling addicts addicted to watching numbers grow.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pretty much. Though from things I have read they are more likely to be competition addicts. Gambling would be one way to compete with others. But yeah, honestly, I wouldn't want to be them. I consider most of them mentally ill.

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They aren't even happy. By most accounts they lead pretty miserable lives, apart from the exorbitant wealth. But it's gotta grind some gears when you automatically assume everyone is only friendly to you because of your money.

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[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

The plan is going well. Now all we gotta do is convince all those sonobabiches to get on a Tesla rocket to Mars. As soon as that shit is outta here, we cut off communication and problem solved.

[–] Kvoth@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I do somewhat disagree with this. Don't get me wrong, I'm very much on the eat the rich train. But, while not due to elons personal "brilliance" space x has cut the cost of going to space by a huge amount. And so many amazing things have come out of the space program

[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sure, if by "Elon's brilliance" you mean decades of Congress forcing NASA to outsource plus a whole lot of engineers none of whom are also CEO

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

while not due to elons personal “brilliance”

[–] Chekhovs_Gun@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Why can't we do both? How many billionaires are there? How many of them have their own space company? I'm no mathologist but something doesn't add up.

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[–] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Well if it isn't the best system why is it the system we have? Survival of the fittest, duh!

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