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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They act like things can only get done if they're in charge of everything...

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They also honestly believe that

[–] minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

It's their giant, narcissistic egos.

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 104 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The poor have no need of the rich, but the rich could not exist without the poor.

[–] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Musk: But I'm Atlas, holding the world on my shoulders! The poor would starve if I shrugged!

[–] almost1337@lemmy.zip 13 points 5 days ago

He's been shrugging and the poor have been starving, so maybe it's time for something different.

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[–] Manticore@lemmy.nz 47 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

The whole point of the phrase is: When the poor have nothing left to eat, they will eat the rich.

It wasnt coined as a threat. It's a warning. The poor are already starving, and there is a limit.

And the thing is that 'rich' is not an intrinsic property, it's not genetic. When you eat the rich, everything they were hoarding - that which gave them the title 'rich' - becomes accessible. It doesn't disappear from the system like an MMO inventory.

Only after the starving poor eat the rich, will there be a path to a possible future without starvation.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (18 children)

When the rich are too rich there are ways, and when the poor are too poor there are ways. Last winter we sold two girls and endured, and this winter, if this one my woman bears is a girl, we will sell again. One slave I have kept—the first. The others it is better to sell than to kill, although there are those who prefer to kill them before they draw breath. This is one of the ways when the poor are too poor. When the rich are too rich there is a way, and if I am not mistaken, that way will come soon.

~ Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth

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[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 29 points 5 days ago (3 children)

If Elon Musk disappeared tomorrow, chances are more people would have access to food.

[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's not just food, it's housing and electricity and power to improve the world.

A trillion dollars is being held captive by one man and we're allowing it. What could a trillion dollars do for the planet, for each person on earth.

Something must be done about the parasitic wealthy because they're causing real harm to people every day they stay rich.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago

Yeah the money is a fiction, but the access to control our resources and our labour is very real.

Like there should be no amount of money that lets you immiserate the lives of millions for the benefit of the few. Or the one.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

If Elon was flayed in the streets and his family was deported to countries they don't know the language... It wouldn't solve anything. They are just cunts taking advantage of a situation. So yes, flay the fuck, but change the laws to make sure it isn't possible again

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[–] AccoSpoot1@lemmy.world 49 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The problem with pissing on Thatchers grave is eventually you run out of piss.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Not the biggest fan of eat the rich.

IMO purge the parasites is more accurate.

Eat the rich makes it sound like they are intrinsically more valuable whereas, like parasites, all they do is take value at the expense of the host.

It’s not even a fatal thing, their hoarding is a mental illness that must be addressed for the good of society.

[–] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The problem with purge the parasites is that chuds will assume you mean people on benefits and then agree with you.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

No that’s intentional. The problem with these slogans is that large populations have nuance.

If you say eat the rich, those chuds would either think your talking about upper middle class people or just reject it cause they can imagine one good rich person.

Conversely, when it comes to people on benefits, even thought the vast majority don’t abuse the system, the chud’s echo chamber is full of the rare examples that do.

So the solution is to acknowledge that being a parasite can happen in all walks of life, even though all the negative effects come from the rich ones.

[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

It's from some novel I believe, i personally prefer tax the rich because that describes best what i think needs to happen.

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[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Someone else can run these companies Does Elmo strike you as a genius? More like a drug addict idiot.

Other people do the work, including intellectual work.

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 28 points 5 days ago (2 children)

He's terrified of getting taxed.

He should be terrified of being executed for crimes against the people.

His priorities are skewed.

[–] HostilePasta@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Are we, as Americans, finally going to grow a spine like the French? Are we going to bring guillotines back? My heart says yes, but my head says no.

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[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)
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[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 28 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Billionaires are mentally ill hoarders, they will fight over every last penny, just like hoarders do when you clean up their filthy house. Except, they are much more insane than someone collecting newspapers, they will screw over thousands of people to make $100 and sleep like babies.

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[–] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 24 points 5 days ago

Billionaires are the parasites of humanity, they only take and give nothing back. These delusional narcissists think society would crumble without them, while it's them who are holding humanity back.

[–] Bad_Engineering@fedia.io 28 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Idk how ultra-wealthy people like this shitass don't understand that being taxed is the best outcome they can hope for. The alternative is people will eventually get desperate enough that they'll drag the rich cunts out of their houses and beat them to death in the streets.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 7 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Which uh, already happened before and i wouldn't be surprised if it happened again in more modern times

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oh they all know it happened before. The rich simply don't think it'll happen again.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (4 children)

*to them

It's the reason they're buying islands and building bunkers.

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[–] obvs@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They're starving now, dipshit.

They're starving because the rich are hoarding all of the food.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The rich aren't hoarding food, they can't eat that much.

The rich are more destroying farmland for datacenters and such, preventing food from being made in the first place.

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 days ago

Don’t eat shit, mulch the rich.

Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 days ago

I support what Mamdani is doing, and I think in the long run it will work.

Having said that, it's absurd to say that New York City has tested much of anything. Mamdani was elected just 7 months ago. Has there even been a tax season since he was elected? Moving can also easily take half a year. He balanced the budget on paper, but only by doing stuff like deferring payments to union pension funds. That's not sustainable. Maybe next year he'll be able to keep the budget balanced and make all the necessary pension payments.

You can say that Mamdani is in the process of doing this, and so far it seems to be working. But, at a bare minimum you need to wait a full year to see if it's working, and realistically you probably won't know for 5 years or more.

But, claiming it has been tested is like saying "You can absolutely survive on a berries-only diet. I'm proof. I started that diet this morning and I've never felt healthier!"

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 19 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I'm not going to pretend that billionaires losing all their money will fix all our problems.

But I quite like the idea of them no longer having it.

[–] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 days ago

It may not fix all problems, but it sure as hell will stop continuing causing more of them

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago

They're starving right now

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago

Elon has a pretty simplistic middle-school outlook. Nothing too deep there.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 15 points 5 days ago (2 children)

This pathetic pile of lies genuinely believes that Atlas Shrugged is realistic.

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[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 days ago

The problem is that the wealthy have created an existential crisis for the rest of us

[–] Corigan@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don't know man we could feed the globe for ~100billion a year sooo just him alone would give us 10+ years to figure it out and honestly his greed being absent will probably heal a lot if things too. Dude doesn't pay taxes so what does he support besides Nazi's?

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Considering we make the food... he's not needed in the "feeding" of anyone. He's literally costing us more than what he "creates"

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago
[–] Yliaster@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (4 children)

why does his comment have 40,000 likes.

The amount of simps for Elon dump is ridiculous.

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[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

I'm so glad Elmo payed attention in school and now shared with us the knowledge of how it were the rich that fed everyone the last 10.000 years /s.

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