If a monkey hoarded more bananas then it could ever eat in its life, to the detriment of other monkeys around it, those other monkeys would kill it, and if they didn’t, scientists would, to see what was wrong in its brain.
Not before ripping it’s face off and maiming it’s genitalia. Honestly, it’s too good for em
Tax them.
What a funny thing to ask on Lemmy.
I prefer mine well done, and grilled to perfection personally.
Give them an award saying “Yay, you won capitalism!” then force them to retire and enjoy the rest of their life without ruining any more people’s lives.
NG+, take away their money and have them start over again, but without help from their rich parents or with the odds stacked against them somehow.
If they truly work so hard that they deserve all that money, they’ll have absolutely no issue earning it again.
Not good
I support billionaire behaviour fully
Like most parasites, they have an important place in the ecosystem.
Ticks for instance are a source of food for several species.
I think they’re bad for the economy. Money has to circulate. Every time a billionaire throws another million on the pile, they make things worse for everyone else.
This is a view we don’t see often enough. Everybody is into hating billionaires the way teenage girls hate the super-hot cheerleader. All they do is complain that it’s not “fair” for somebody to be so rich. There’s not enough discussion of the purely mechanical reasons extreme wealth is bad for the economy, not to mention the corruption opportunities it creates. The ultra-rich don’t spend their money, they just exchange it to trade big blocks of asset ownership back and forth. None of that money ever gets spent on a loaf of bread or a bus ticket, or a GI Joe with the kung fu grip. It essentially disappears from the economy. I don’t think most people even comprehend how that works - it involves more thought than reacting to memes.
They literally steal work out of the system like a parasite. As you say, we shouldn’t be envious, but fix the problem with the money leaking away.
Ideally they’d be taxed into no longer being billionaires.
Realistically we probably need to violently remind them who holds the actual power before this becomes a reality.
In terms of scale, from the person at the top making xxx times the person at the bottom, they’ve likely always been around.
“Robber Baron” is the ye olde term.
Google tells me John D. Rockefeller peaked at around $1.4 billion in 1937. 1.5% of US GDP.
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47167
The average wage in 1937 was $890 a year.
https://time.com/archive/6760420/personnel-above-average/
So Rockefeller, at his death, had amassed as much wealth as 1,573,034 average people would earn in a year.
In order to hit 1.5% of current US GDP (27.36 trillion), Bezos or Musk would have to hit 410.4 billion. That’s how wealthy Rockefeller was.
1.2 Musks. 2 Bezoses.
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I respect some of what they do but they should be taxed more and the top ones a lot more.
Psychopaths
Seems logical if there was a law that the average worker had to be paid a percentage of what the top people get paid. I thought that Japan had something like this.
It billionaires exist then there is a problem in the system. Billionaires are a bug, not a feature.
