the idea is that the guillotine is for the current ones.
you can get rid of billionaires altogether by taxing 100% of every dollar above ten million, for example.
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cobalt32@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Here’s an interesting article on why the guillotine may not be a very good symbol of resistance. The TL;DR is that it’s always been used as a tool of state violence, and that you can’t get rid of billionaires by just killing them all.
pyre@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
mustlovehuskies@lemmy.today 13 hours ago
Problem with that is it just transfers the money to the government, which is an own-goal for the people - look how it’s being used now, that’s how it’ll be used with any added tax. Trusting the government is just as foolish as trusting corporations or billionaires - and that goes for any government, honest people don’t become politicians. Going about it by way of tax just transfers power to the political system even more.
For the people to have any power the government needs to have reduced power. The best way to address billionaires is to address the system that creates them - by constraining capitalism enough to prevent monopolies and concentration of executive power in any one person or small group.
All corporations over 1,000 employees should be required to be employee owned co-ops with executive compensation approved by 70% employee vote.
pyre@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
no, trusting the government is not as foolish as trusting billionaires. I won’t take this Reagan crap. the government is about a million times more useful than all billionaires have ever been combined. and it has to answer to the people. billionaires don’t. unless you start making them answer.
mustlovehuskies@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
I take it you’re ok with $200bn to another pointless war in the Middle East? Countless billions wasted? Politicians answer to the people in theory, but not practice.
Aarkon@discuss.tchncs.de 12 hours ago
Want to upvote and downvote this at the same time
brownsugga@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I mean killing all the billionaires would technically get rid of them all, I think
Wilco@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
Its not about the guillotine, its about sending a message.
Sure, theoretically, if you “guilloize” the first round of billionaires a second round will pop up, but if you “guilloize” that second round then each successive round that you “guilloize” will get smaller and smaller … that is my theory at least.
CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Guillotine is well reknowned globally as a symbol of antiauthoritarianism
One article wont change that