Post by @WillStealYourUsername@piefed.blahaj.zone

Outlaw billionaires, tax them out of existence, and use the proceeds to fund needed social programs like medical care for all and universal basic income. They can still be richer than 99% of us as multimillionaires, and the more wealth these elites create, the better our society becomes through the tax sequestration - it’s a win win.

Open ##5442178

@rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works 2026-02-23 20:04

Article: theguardian.com/…/all-billionaires-under-30-have-…

Open ##5442180

@crusa187@lemmy.ml 2026-02-23 20:04

It’s an olive branch, but yeah I hear you.

Open ##5442184

@JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 2026-02-23 20:09

It’s against most rules for advocating against certain things, however for educational purposes only I would suggest a slow roast with a barbeque glaze, and if you’d like to put in some effort an apple and sage stuffing could really help bring some flavours out (be sure to remove that giant stick they all have up their arse first, though).

Open ##5442186

@nonentity@sh.itjust.works 2026-02-23 20:30

The percentage of sociopaths involved with creating a society should never be greater than zero. 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 billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

Open ##5442188

@ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2026-02-23 20:46

No shit. And all them have had funds and investments made in their names the moment they were born.

Open ##5442190

@jballs@sh.itjust.works 2026-02-23 20:46

It still weird me out that there are only something like 600 billionaires in the US. This seems like such a solvable problem.

Open ##5442191

@BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-02-23 20:52

Larger Estate Tax.

Open ##5442192

@doug@lemmy.today 2026-02-23 20:54

How do you talk the winner of a Monopoly game into not playing the game anymore and letting us move onto a cooperative game? Like my god man, Monopoly isn’t even that good of a game; we all know by now it was created to lampoon capitalism. The game sucks. Stop touting your winnings. You are ruining game night with this! And now you’re having your kids brag about your winnings and holding game night hostage? Bruh.

Open ##5442193

@IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2026-02-23 22:18

not that bs 1% or 2%, at least 50%

Open ##5442209

@hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip 2026-02-23 22:35

It’s not just this, we need to end all means of them living off borrowed debt. If you own that much money, there is no reason to be borrowing anything from anyone you have more money than

Open ##5442211

@Hupf@feddit.org 2026-02-23 22:38

I wonder what the suggestion may be.

Open ##5442212

@Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2026-02-23 22:47

As such they should be excluded from any kind of political interaction

Open ##5442215

@tackleberry@thelemmy.club 2026-02-24 00:45

The system we created ensured the wealth is concentrated among a few of us, has always been this way even when monarchs ruled a majority of our population.

Open ##5442220

@birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-02-24 10:38

1 million a year is ridiculous, you can already accumulate wealth if you have that much. And that defeats it already. What you want is an equitable society, in where social ownership is the norm. Credit unions, time banks, for example. I think it’s much more sane to have a max of what ordinary salaries in worker-owned co-ops top out at. A manager at for example Mondragon, a federation of worker-owned co-ops, may earn no more than five times the minimum of their own workers. Assuming you’d need €40,000 a year in the poorest US states as a living wage, that yields €200,000 a year there. In Vietnam, this would be about €4,750 a year., and thus € 23,750 for the richest. In Switzerland, that might be €60,000 a year and therefore €300,000. The issue with money is also, it can be accumulable, and inherently fosters inequality. Time banks might be an alternative, but they ultimately rend into wage labour by a different name. An idea might be a form of decentralised Community Exchange System, which is essentially a mutual aid system that fosters to give-it-forward (and thus to share).

Open ##5442221

@birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-02-24 12:09

Sure, I have some wood ready here.

Open ##5442224

@2hundredpancakes@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-02-24 15:36

*Warning: values may change over time due to societal shifts or manipulation of public consensus. Batteries sold separately

Open ##5442229

@technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-02-24 17:11

Their parents created so much value for humanity that it overflows to their children. (capitalist ideologues really believe this)

Open ##5442232

Replies (24)