Flippanarchy
Flippant Anarchism. A lighter take on social criticism with the aim of agitation.
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I'll never understand billionaires. They are so fckn obscenely rich, they can literally buy anything they want. And yet they do everything to squeeze yet another million out of the populace. A million that LITERALLY doesn't change their lifestyle. A million to them is like how a cent is to us. Prolly even less. They literally are pure evil, otherwise I can't explain why they try to make life harder for us normal folks although they already have everything.
It's a high score for some of them. It's not that they want any tangible benefit, they just want the most so they can say they're the richest person.
They must be sociopathic in order to do this. They just don't understand other people suffering in the same way the majority of us do (more of an abstract concept).
The hyperrich who don't fall into these categories don't stay wealthy for long. If someone lucks into this situation somehow, they'll either get swindled, start using their wealth for causes they care about, or stop growing their wealth because they have enough. There are quite a few examples of benevolent millionaires: once you get to the billions, there's none. Attrition removes all benevolence on the climb.
It is like a high score to them.
I think we should enact universal healthcare, and pay for it with a wealth tax on the richest person in the US. 100% of the nation's healthcare will be paid by the richest person until the richest person is no longer the richest. Then the second richest person can start paying too. Nobody gets to be the exclusive richest. The uppermost class all share that title, and they can instead compete on number of lives saved.
It's a mental disease. I hoard newspapers and it takes all my place's room, I have a problem. Replace that with money and items of value, I'm successful.
I started to agree because I've also described it this way, it's definitely something very like mental illness, hoarding for sure combined with super low empathy.
But, I can't really let it lie there, because in general mental illness - while accurate - carries pretty deep assumptions of care and accommodation, for me, and these folks do not merit that. Can't merit that, sadly and frustratingly to me.
They cannot be healed, certainly cannot be accommodated. In the worst of em it's a deep hole in their humanity that nothing can fill. Nothing. They invent horrors which yet again fail to close that hole. And again. And again.
Not sure if I'm agreeing or disagreeing with you I spose, just unpacking.
At this point myself I don't think it can be resolved and locking them up, taking all their assets, then letting them wither to death is the NICE thing we can do.
They are a dragon lying on its hoard of gold.
And what do we do with dragons? We slay them.
Build guillotines. The blade and its channel to begin with, make sure that’s built to never fail; we can always build the rest later.
It is a addiction. They are addicted to gain more money the same way a junkie is addicted to injecting heroin.