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[โ€“] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If all of the 1% just died overnight how would it affect us?

it would only have an impact if you prevented a new crop of 1 percenters from inheriting all the money like china is doing to their billionaires.

[โ€“] DancingBear@midwest.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I would still be sad about losing cool artists and musicians and poets and thinkers and bohemian starving artists or whatever it is

Oh wait, we are talking about the wrong kind of wealth.

Edit: my bad