Submitted 3 weeks ago by gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
Ok so how does a cancer kill its host?
It grows until it consumes so many nutrients that the other living cells don’t get enough. The host literally starves even if he eats plentifully.
The same applies for the US: The billionaires are not only hoarding wealth, but by doing so they’re crippling the economy for workers and everybody besides themselves.
Suppose you spend 1.000 dollar a day.
A millionaire would take roughly 3 years until he spent it all.
If Jesus were a billionaire and did the same. He wouldn't finished by today and would need another 700 years.
The numbers might be not exact but the point still stands: The difference between a millionaire and billionaire is ridiculous huge.
People think they understand numbers like billion because they understand thousand and billion is just thousand times thousand (million) times thousand. Multiplication is fairly intuitive, but exponentiation is not. Without explicitly thinking it through people feel like 1000^3 is not very different from 1000 * 3.
It’s the same reason the lottery fools so many people into gambling their money away.
People know what a million euros is, and having that 1000x is not that weird to reason about
There are roughly just under 3000 people on earth with more than a billion dollars.
They have a combined net worth of over $16 Trillion
Say the almighty Cthulu/Allah/Zeus decided “yo fuck those assholes” and instantly redistributed that $16 trillion among all 8 billion+ people on earth equally
Everyone: Every man, woman and child would get jus…vbg bt shy of $2000.
Fun thought experiment
Correct, because the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is roughly 1 billion dollars.
Figuratively, but yes, I agree.
actually yes, figuratively is the word that i should have used.
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.
Not a fan fat shaming that gets bundled in with that but basically. It’s the vice of greed, plain and simple.
Like imagine rolling up to a potluck and just buying the table, leaving naught but a bag of chips for the rest of the party. Even if you can afford it, it’s still a crime against your fellows.
Every person who kills a billionaire does so in self defense.
The (original) Nazis are rightfully considered monsters for killing millions of people in the 20th century. What will any survivors of the incineration of earth consider the billionaires that are killing BILLIONS of us for greed?
never, next question
Literal parasites who consume everything and offer nothing in return
We should start call them hoarders instead. They are just as obsessed and wierd about it.
Right? Billionaires should be seen in the same light as someone with a house full of cats and feces. Hoarding for the sake of hoarding is mental illness. Instead: we put them on Forbes and look to them as royals. Kill the rich.
What are you talking about? Billionaires are what’s saving this country! Everyone just needs to stop eating and be homeless. But also fuxk homeless people and you turn to drugs for comfort? Jail obviously. They’re totally fixing everything! /S
Each billionaire is an individual problem AND allowing billionaires to grab and monopolize so many resources and even looking up to them is a systemic problem.
Without the systemic problem which is Capitalism and present day society billionaires would be treated the same as other hoarders - though of as mentally derranged and stopped from going too far for their own good and the good of others.
There will always be nutters, but if the social system we have wasn’t broken, this very specific kind of nutter would never be allowed to cause the damage they do with their mental disease.
I think what you mean to say is capitalism is cancer. There are books written on the subject.
The same applies to the human race.
Ok, Agent Smith.
I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure.
Fuck man. Now I need to rewatch The Matrix
Nice try would be funnier
Agent Smith wasn’t wrong. Most villains have a weak motivation; Smith’s was strong, because it is true.
See, this is what I find funny about those who promote voluntary extinction, or most of those who promote any philosophy. They never lead by example.
Do you think I’m promoting voluntary extinction? I don’t think anyone has to do that - not only would it not make a dent in the race to doomsday, but it’s unnecessary since we’ve probably already passed the point at which we’re capable of halting the runaway ecological collapse we’ve engineered - even if there was any indication of willingness on the part of the biggest polluters to draw down, which there isn’t.
What I find funny is those people who are still making more people, as if they’re not dooming them to live through a true apocalypse: global societal and ecological collapse, technological regression, famine, and the resurgence of self-perpetuating oligarchies. A dark ages, but one we’ll never come out of.
Let’s take the original comment at face value and in earnest for a moment.
Wouldn’t the human race be more like a parasite?
In all honesty, I don’t think the earth needs us, nor would we qualify for a symbiotic relationship. Earth really doesn’t need most of its inhabitants.
That would move to a more existential question of what it means for earth to survive or be “alive”? Support any life?
If we take “Earth” as the biosphere, because honestly the naked rock isn’t that interesting, then the cancer analogy is fitting. After all, we grew as part of that Earth and have developed to a size and growth that now threatens to kill our host/the rest of the body
I am incensed by the use of the word “literally” here almost as much as I am incensed by the hyper rich denying the vast fraction of the human race basics rights and freedoms. Almost.
I think OP used literally correctly here. They are saying that one possible definition of the word cancer can include billionaires as an instance. That’s not the definition you’ll find in any dictionary, but those lag behind the true language as it evolves.
I think OP used literally correctly here.
Then you do not understand what the word “literally” literally means.
While several treatments would work for either, (such as carving up the offending subject with a knife, or sufficient application of chemical or radiative agents), billionaires are an economic problem, not a biologic one.
Having characteristics similar to something else is not what “literally” means.
At this point it’s not violence, it’s self defence.
1st world culture makes them. Quit supporting that. We only have our selves to blame.
You don’t need much of the things they market to you.
Today i learned i don’t need food …
Is that honestly what you got out of my comment? Or are you joking?
Most people aren’t frivilously spending most of their money on things… Except maybe the rich, but most people don’t have that much disposable income now do they?
Too Big 2 Jail
Corporations with more than 1 billion are more of a cancer than individual billionaires
Luigi knew how to cure this type of cancer. It’s not rocket science but nobody with the means and opportunity is willing to do the right thing for humanity.
Billionaires are the symptom, not the cancer itself.
Better prep the patient for surgery
Why can’t each person. Rubbing for office get a fixed Amount of money to spend on their campaign. Make it all level playing field.
I’ve been rubbing for office for years and I’ve nothing to show for it but chaffing.
then we all should sign up and unlock UBI
Time for some chemotherapy and radiation treatments.
This was pretty much the point Agent Smith was making to Morpheus in his ‘virus’ speech.
Lemmy circle jerk moment
Been saying it for years. Sadly there are too many at the bottom mesmerized by the elite propaganda telling them “you can also be like me, if you work hard”, as if they earned billions that way without any dirty tactics along the way, and despite even with success still needing such tactics to take more and more.
There is no goal other than to keep taking. They couldn’t stop even if they wanted to. It only ends when life becomes so miserable for enough people that violence becomes the only answer
jokes on them cancer dies with the host
You know in hungarian we would flip this a bit on its head as we have a curse, “a rák vigye el”, which means may cancer “bring them away”(kill them). I support this idea in this specific case.
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
At this point radical measures are necessary to right the wrongs committed by the rich. Taxes are a good start but not enough.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Jail sentences,
countless are dead due to billionaire greed. they are directly responsible.
life sentences for billionaires
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
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huquad@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Jail them and spend even more money? Naa, just eat em
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
There is no law providing for such a sentence, so what you are talking about is either “make billionaireism illegal” or “extrajudicial punishment”. In the case of the former, we need a Guillotine Party to take over the DNC much like the Tea Party took over the GOP. Or, we need a guillotine party, French Revolution style, to resolve the problem-class at its source.
HalifaxJones@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Overnight massive protests at their places of residence will help