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[–] gastroglizzy@piefed.social 72 points 6 days ago (5 children)

When a host is infested by multiple parasites, the parasite which extracts the most from the host before the host dies has the greatest chance of survival.

The point is to extract as much wealth as possible so they can survive in bunkers after they've ruined our planet's ability to support life our way of life as we know it.

[–] Fredselfish@sh.itjust.works 46 points 6 days ago (3 children)

This right here is the answer. Being a billionaire is disease. They will never have enough power or money they are mentally ill and sick psychopaths that need to be put down. They are not able to reformed.

[–] mmcintyre@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

There's this one weird trick billionaires don't want you to know about!

(take all their money, now they ain't billionaires)

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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 78 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Hey, are you denying me the opportunity to work very hard every day so one day I may become a billionaire?

[–] BooBees@fedinsfw.app 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

The system is built to deny you that as well, yes, as long as the current billionaires in charge don’t like you.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago

But if I lick their boots enough, they will come to like and respect me, right?

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[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 5 points 5 days ago

won’t someone think of the poor billionaires

[–] elbiter@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago (3 children)
[–] BillionaireStew@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The status quo does not just enrich the rich. It also allows its privileged to rape children without consequences.

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[–] Cliff@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago
[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 28 points 5 days ago (4 children)

To allow an extremely small percentage of people live like royalty.

Duh.

The old system did that just fine with actual royalty though.

[–] Zensate@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Which they will also never feel satisfied by

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[–] likebudda@reddthat.com 25 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I work at a DMV call center. People call me with vehicle registration or driver's license problems and I help them out. AI is supposed to replace me so the state bought an AI voice recognition system. It can transcribe calls but cannot do anything with the information so a new part of my job is responding to what the AI interprets and then use AI canned responses to reply to the caller via email so I can train the AI.

[–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

Fascinating. I recently had to replace an expired license. They said I could renew it online, but that didn't work. They said I could make an appointment online, but that didn't work either. I called in and couldn't get in touch with anyone real. So I finally just went to the DMV and got my license renewed in person. Mentioned all this stuff to the guy behind the counter and he's like "yeah... they're having a lot of problems with the computer systems..." and now after reading your comment I'm like. Oh duh. Of course. They're using AI. No wonder none of this shit works!

[–] Newhere@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 days ago

🤢😱😭

[–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 32 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The people who need to ask this also actively deny both of these statements...

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 13 points 6 days ago

They deny both of those statements because they are inconvenient for their delusions.

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

A few pedophile narcissists are living their best lives

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 11 points 5 days ago

The point is to provide more billions to billionaires.

[–] Zensate@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Don't you know? The world is just one big resort for the Epstein class and we are the staff

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[–] j_elgato@leminal.space 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They transfer wealth upwards

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

*downwards. They're shitty people, let's stop glorifying them, which is supported by "trickle-down economics" that went right into their hands so to them, it worked.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 13 points 5 days ago

Making billionaires richer. Have we not already covered this?

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago

the point is for billionaires to hoard wealth. literally capitalism.

[–] AdamBomb@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

Make line go up

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

The point is to make the rich even richer. From that viewpoint, it is a very successful system.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

To make it easy for the people who own media organisations and their pals to take everything you, your family, your friends and neighbours will ever own, for themselves whilst brainwashed morons clap

[–] Equinox1289@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

We need stakeholder primacy over shareholder primacy! Stakeholder Socialism

[–] cloudshouter@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago

Every one driving the train has a little goblin inside, jumping up and down on the table shreeking “I WANT MORE MONEY!!!!!”

[–] bad1080@piefed.social 11 points 6 days ago

the cruelty is the point...

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The point is to eventually create a society where one unfathomably wealthy family is immortal, served by millions to provide every whim.

Those millions will be very short lived, like 30 tops; they will repair the robots and provide services and entertainment for the Family Supreme.

Which family? It doesn't matter. Saudi Royals, JP Morgan family, Trumps, Kardashians, one of those

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

Economics, as an intellectual discipline, is closer to theology than physics. Its power is proportional to the belief it commands.

Finance is an arbitrary subset of mathematics, cherry picked by the owning class, protected from scrutiny, and applied as their supporting mythology.

It’s entirely imaginary, which means alternatives are only ever a conjuring away. We did it after the Enlightenment, we can do it again.

[–] Bluedragon012@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

To erase the "undesirables." These bozos think they can new game + the earth and get away with it.

[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.today 8 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Value for the shareholders! /s

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The original post here for anyone who can't open X without logging in:

https://twitee.co/jasonhickel/status/1439877383180460032

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Wow. Someone suddenly gets it.

[–] Sparky@lemmy.today 2 points 4 days ago

"there is no world police", said Chinese Communist Political Party

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