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Used to be called starting a war. It’s working for Russia but you really need to have a draft/conscription to make it succeed. The wealthy pay a doctor to say they have bone spurs and the poor go die somewhere else. As a VA plus the wealthy benefit from an overheated economy
But there are side effects, such as generating more poverty by killing off the main income in families
Starting a war only kills certain demographics, namely young poor people, as well as anyone who lives in a place that gets bombed.
Police handle other demographics.
Why not bomb USA to stop what is going on right now?
easier to kill the rich
That has to be a bot post, right?
Who could actually be inhumane enough to just put that thought out there?
There's a miniscule chance it's intentional irony based on Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal, in which Swift proposes easing babies to solve the Irish famine.
Buy probably just a dickbag.
You'd be amazed at the amount of poor people who deeply believe in rich people propaganda
Billionaires
Magas. The ultimate fuck you got mine (until someone get theirs instead)
I mean why would people for far right narratives?
Because it's an easy answer with a appearently reasonable thought process.
The same reason why people online argued Marvel's Thanos had a point
[Serious] Why not kill the Hoarders to solve poverty?
What do you think is the purpose of denying poor people health care, implementing hostile architecture, and eroding social projects? This has been ongoing for quite a while now.
Seriously, wishing for something the GOP is already working on with all they got. 🙄
Then who will work for the rich people? The other rich people?
The provincial government where I live is doing their best to do exactly that. Fuck conservatives.
Jonathan Swift you card, I didn't realize you were using Reddit now!
I came into this comment section expecting this modest proposal to be widely recognized for what it was. to my surprise, your reply was far down the page
Why not kill people thinking about crime to solve murder?
You had to think about it to post this comment. Hands to the sky!
This is not merely a hypthetical. Vlad Tepes (Yes, The Impailer ) notoriously invited all his poor to a grand feast, instead to kill them all. (I think he burned them alive.) Usually in feudal and early capitalist societies, it was just enough to deny them basic necessities and let them die off, but this often would lead to an outlaw problem as some of the more able poors would turn to banditry and poaching to live.
In liberal societies, just as we don't outlaw people anymore, there are some known good reasons to support low income, disabled and marginalized groups.
One of them is to cut off or discontinue the outlaw-to-professional-criminal pipeline. People who are forced to work but cannot for some reason will resort to poaching, banditry, fraud or any number of extralegal revenue-enhancement tactics. Criminal syndicates such as the Crips and the Bloods pull their numbers from demographics that are given no other choice by the society they live in.
Another reason the state might support it's low-income demographics is in recognition that capitalist societies teem with social roles and efforts that contribute value to the society without compensation. Parenting is the primary one.
In fact, in the US, as social programs for low-income households have been defunded or rendered inaccessible (such as SNAP and Medicaid), millennials and zoomers are now choosing not to have children, and avoiding romantic relationships, so that the fertility rate is well below the replacement level 2.1 children. We're not just not having kids, we're not having sex.
Also, thanks to deregulation, and the failure of wages to keep up with inflation, a lot of the US is under-compensated. Much of the poor population in the US have jobs, but they're not being paid a living wage. Infamously, Walmart workers still have to rely on SNAP benefits and Medicaid because their wages are not enough to afford a sustainable living. They still count as poor, and would be swept up if ICE were to start going after poor Americans. And then Walmart would find they have fewer applicants, and might have to offer better wages and benefits. (This happened after the great resignation when workers furloughed during the COVID-19 lockdown found they could monetize their home hobby, or just didn't want their shit job anymore.)
But this isn't to say these uncompensated or under-compensated people are useless or not contributing to society, just that what they do isn't recognized by the system that rewards value with compensation.
Curiously, our political class and our ownership class both imagine they could dispose of the poor without ill effects, even as they directly depend upon those people to parent, to maintain homes, to organize communities and yes, even sometimes to do basic labor. At the same time, they're also the ones screeching about how American women are not having enough (white male) babies.
Just as the US is suffering a shortage of farm hands to harvest crops, thanks to the persecution of immigrant workers, when we deny benefits and services to low-income houses, we'll find that other work we depend on will cease to be done. And that will be accompanied by a new wave of organized crime... or maybe organized resistance against a state that has turned violent against them.
And this guybis jot banned!?!
kill a couple billionares and give their wealth to the poor people and they wont be poor anymore and it a lot less killing....
2 or 3 instead of millions, I think that math works out pretty well
Jonathan Swift you card, I didn't realize you were using Reddit now.
Why can't we, as a society, just take Musk's money and redistribute it? It is absolutely stupid that we allow someone to have more money than he can use while so many people can't afford to live
Most of those trillions are unrealized gains based on completely unrealistic valuation in "trust me bro" style
Like Tesla being worth more than all the western car manufacturers combined or xai being "worth" billions even if it's losing billions every year.
The second he dumps those stocks, the house of cards would crash almost immediately
I swear people think billionaires have a giant vault of money like Scrooge McDuck. I have had to explain this to people so many times. His wealth is almost entered imaginary and based on the speculative possible future profits of his companies. If he ever tried to convert it into cash the value would go to zero.
His wealth isn't imaginary when he uses it as collateral to borrow actual money, though.
That's the weird part, when billionaires use their money, it's real.
But when you discuss taking it away or taxing it, it's suddenly just an imagination.
Because it's not "real" money
It's real enough to use as collateral to borrow actual money from banks.
Sure, but turning it all into actual resources for the community wouldn't be as easy as it seems (I think?)
Why kill them? I would rather they compete on a reality TV show to not get fired from a soul sucking benefitless job at their former corporations.
Or Bumfights. What do you think they’ll be using the Temu Colosseum for after it’s first spectacle?
I'd watch a reality TV show where people like Musk had to work for a week in a mine, or on an oil rig, doing the hardest jobs. They wouldn't last a minute.
They had that stupid undercover boss show but it was nothing but a shameless commercial for the company and patronizing pandering to the slave class.
Nah, that’s too good. He needs to work the lowest paying job in his corp.
I'd love to watch these geniuses try to "innovate" their way out of cleaning toilets.
That’s what they’re doing https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elon-musk-killed-hundreds-of-thousands-of-people
Nobody ever asks him about this, and he never responds to posts about it. Same for his begging to go to the island. He'll pipe up on everything else nobody asked him about, but not those two subjects.
Yep. Sounds like a Redditor.
England had a war on murders and killed them all.
That is thought to have massively reduced the number of murders for subsequent generations.
[serious] because the very existence of the rich and poor means there are systems creating inequality.
Should you kill the poor, the next poorest group will be sucked of their money and will become poor.
The problem is not the poor, it's the system that creates poverty.
For sure. Or put a more direct way, someone needs to be making drinks at Starbucks when the rich-enough-to-survive go there, someone needs to be boiling noodles and chopping onions all day for when they want pasta at a restaurant, someone needs to stand in the sun next to hot asphalt and lay it so they can drive over it.
And if it's not the too-poor-to-live, it's the next wrung down.
Then the middle class would be the poor class so we kill them and so on?
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