Three bullets could do so much for this country
It will trickle down any second now
Submitted 2 days ago by HaiZhung@feddit.org to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 2 days ago
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
not really. they would justbe replaced.
three bullets would feel good.
bonsai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Let’s keep ‘replacing’ them until the replacements end
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
I’m okay with that.
TheFermentalist@reddthat.com 2 days ago
And they are so cheap!
davidagain@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The weird thing is that these people don’t think they’re rich enough and want to extract more money from government and the people, and they simultaneously think that the government gives too much money to poor people.
DirtPuddleMisfortune@feddit.org 2 days ago
They race to who will be the first trillionaire. It’s disgusting. Meanwhile children are starving.
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 2 days ago
It’s bound to happen soon.
And you know what they say, the difference between a trillion and a billion is about a trillion.Digit@lemmy.wtf 2 days ago
Surely someone’s already there, quietly, long time ago.
… Who owns the debt?
FateOfTheCrow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
To these people, there’s no such thing as “enough”. Contentment is not a concept that exists within their minds, only a sociopathic urge to acquire more.
Digit@lemmy.wtf 2 days ago
Imagine how rich we’d all be if all the suppressed emancipatory technologies got availed to each and all. No more impoverishment by rents. Free energy. Negligible cost of travel. All space opened to us each and all.
davidagain@lemmy.world 2 days ago
No more impoverishment by rents.
You’ve put your finger on it there.
ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
yggstyle@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The french really did have a solid way of reminding the upper crust that they were vastly outnumbered by the people they were standing upon…
Remind me. Why are the worlds billionaires all building bunkers? A true mystery.
leavemealone@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Honestly stop being poor dudes, just ask your father for some millions to get started.
TheFermentalist@reddthat.com 2 days ago
Just a small multi million dollar loan, Dad
plyth@feddit.org 2 days ago
Ask for several thousand dollars and go to a third world country where people only earn hundreds per year. Turn those thousands into millions. Easy.
Most Westerners can play Musk’s game in a third world country.
RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Any place that allows this to happen is a bad place.
BoycottTwitter@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Vote out every single Republican or whatever right-wing/far-right party you have in your country. Shift the Overton window each time a seat gets flipped.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
And don’t forget to get rid of the Dems who have been there. Replace them with actual leftists.
minorkeys@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Eat the rich.
huppakee@piefed.social 2 days ago
Damn, when I read this statistic the other day I took it as ‘the bottom half has less then the 3 richest persons’, but in fact, it is ‘three people each have more than the bottom half’ holy shit.
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It never trickles down.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
As per, the only thing that trickles down is shit, vomit and piss.
erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
People really should pay their bottoms more.
(sorry)
asg101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Fuck trickle-down, time to implement the piñata economy.
ChonkyLincoln@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
We can of course fix this…just look at French history…
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
In the past, the owners and/or aristocracy, lived in the general area of workers. Not the case anymore. I would love it if people started Luigi-ing aggressively.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 days ago
We already have Musk acting like his own personal country, making personal deals with world leaders that benefit only himself over other nations. Others are probably doing it, too, but we haven’t heard about it.
Now these Sociopathic Oligarchs are heading to trillionaire status, and they WILL be founding their own Corporo-Nations, which will require private armies for security. Eventually, these Corporo-Mations will combine to form their own alliance, combine their armies, and start throwing their weight around militarily, as well as economically.
This is all just a matter of time, and then we’re going to wonder as a planet, why we didn’t stop those guys back when we had a chance.
I have no doubt at all that ALL of them violated many laws, in many sectors, to get as rich as they are. Investigate them deeply, prosecute them for their crimes, and confiscate their entire fortunes. If we don’t do that, it is absolutely certain that we will come to regret it.
JordanZ@lemmy.world 2 days ago
[deleted]ameancow@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Not shown: the innumerable corporate wars fought to create and expand these borders.
This is already happening guys, this IS going to be our medium-term future.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Alien only demonstrates the penultimate world government organization, before they each Psychopathic Oligarch decides they have to be sole King of the World, and they go to war genociding each other, with only one left standing.
Then it’s BuynLarge from Wall-E.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 days ago
The age of kings returns.
GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The bottom 50% of households have an average net worth of $629?
DeICEAmerica@lemmy.world 1 day ago
People who don’t own their homes, cars, etc have no net worth other than what’s in their savings. Most of us are living day to day. It’s not that hard to fathom.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Most of America cannot absorb a sudden expense of 400-1000 dollars.
UltraMagnus@startrek.website 1 day ago
Taking into consideration the large amount of credit card debt, student loans, mortgages, etc.? It’s plausible.
CtrlAltDefeat@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Now, I might be misreading this data, but from what it looks like either one of these billionaires by themselves have more wealth than the bottom 50% of Americans, right?
SomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
More like one Billionaire own 5.6 times the wealth of the bottom 50%
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah, this is phrased like those three just slightly edge out the bottom 50, as opposed to each individually owning significantly greater than the bottom 50. I’m going to assume these three own more than the “bottom” like 85%.
barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Don’t forget that shithead larry Ellison. He’s worth 200b right now.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 days ago
It’s hard to believe, but Ellison is worse than Musk. Musk is a lot like Trump, he wants love and respect, even though they are far too psychopathic to really understand what those things are, and they think that having money and acting tough will make people love and respect them.
Ellison doesn’t seem to care about that. He’s a mean, cruel person, who seems to enjoy being that way, and like Fred Trump, he raised his son to be as much a psychopath as he is.
Musk is dangerous, but he is too stupid and impulsive, and it blunts his impact. Ellison is far smarter, and far more effective. He’s not quite as rich as the rest, but at a certain level, who can really tell? It’s all just wretched excess after about $100 bill anyway. But even so, now that he owns CBS and Paramount, and is trying a poison pill takeover of Warner Discovery, he’ll be in the upper reaches very soon, jockeying for position at in the top rankings
And I doubt he will stop at CBS/ Paramount and Warner. Larry Ellison is going to control a massive amount of the media in the this country, and he is a massive MAGA, of the worst kind. There are supposed to be government controlled limits on media ownership, but all rules are elastic under MAGA, and he’ll be allowed to own anything he wants. Don’t be surprised if he ends up owning all broadcast TV, and then he controls the narrative for all political campaigns, election results, news programs, debates, etc. No candidate gets promoted on TV unless MAGA allows it.
ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 2 days ago
So Larry Ellison is essentially Mr Potter from it’s wonderful Life
Digit@lemmy.wtf 2 days ago
Don’t forget the bankers who do not appear on such rich lists.
… How much did the Rothschilds have at the start of last century? Enough to own how many nations? Oh, maybe they just magically got poor since then, huh? XD
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 day ago
At first I thought it was combined. Not “individually each.”
roserose56@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
USA at again, isn’t it? The country with trillion debt, that’s about to blow.
1984@lemmy.today 2 days ago
It has always been a thing with America. The debt has been astronomical for many decades. I know its easy to believe its something new, but it really isnt. My entire life, America has been like this.
ameancow@lemmy.world 2 days ago
about to blow.
about to
It’s not. Speaking from decades of living under this, it’s always framed this way, but there are no international financial cops, there’s nobody with American held debt that dares try to collect, we are the biggest, bloated monster with the biggest, baddest bloated military.
At the end of the day, the one with the biggest stick wins. Until that collapses, USA will continue to have an economic hegemony.
nonentity@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
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.
DeICEAmerica@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Every 30 FUCKING HOURS, since Covid, another Billionaire is created. That number was halfed before 2020. It means that nearly 500 people became billionaires while pretending they needed to raise prices astronomically to stay solvent. They need to be tried and sentenced harshly. VERY harshly.
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 2 days ago
Every time I see these guys’ faces I cringe so hard. It’s frankly embarrassing working in the tech industry when most people think of them at the very mention of it.
foggianism@lemmy.world 2 days ago
“own more” is putting it lightly, they literally own 10 times more than bottom 170 mil people combined
phil@lymme.dynv6.net 1 day ago
The “money” used to buy bread is a very practical medium to exchange resources. These figures with too many digits are not real: that “money” is a result of sums of products of virtual values based on credit and speculation. The fact that the same symbol ($) is used for these two very different things sounds like a systemic bug.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You say that but they can and do use that virtual value to buy bread.
phil@lymme.dynv6.net 16 hours ago
Sure they can buy bread, but here’s the catch: it’s like going to the bakery, asking for free bread with the promise that you’ll pay later because you can show 10 digit numbers, even if your pockets are actually empty. So these people practically live on credit because the market value would crash if they sell. At a macro level, 97 % of every dollar is actually debt (credit), mostly created by private banks to feed the system: econcurrents.com/…/where-does-us-money-come-from-….
Soleos@lemmy.world 1 day ago
True, but if Elon gave you $1 million in Tesla stock you could still easily sell it, be taxed on it, and use the remainder to buy a lot of bread.
Digit@lemmy.wtf 2 days ago
It will trickle down any second now
No, no. A little while yet.
They’ve got to get enough to cover
first. THEN it’ll trickle down. For super super sure.
Trust them. Maybe they care.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They’ve got to get enough to cover
Brother, those are treasuries. Nobody is trying to “pay back all the treasuries” except a dozen or so crank libertarianism obsessed with Free Banking.
We’ve never missed a treasury payment in large part because we can’t miss a payment (unwillingly) when we print our own money.
Anyone who claims we can’t pay back the National Debt is either ignorant or lying
Digit@lemmy.wtf 2 days ago
That was intended whimsically.
But also,
The FED’s federal in name only.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 2 days ago
The debt of the nations are the assets and income of the rich. They don’t want that to disappear. Not until they de-invested at least.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s not liquid money though. For each one, the figures mostly represent stock in their own companies which they couldn’t pull out without crashing the value. Musk’s wealth in particular is mostly air. At least the other two have profitable companies that actually function. In any case, much of it’s not real money we could pull out of the bank and spread around. (But we could tax the fucking snot out of them and spread that around!)
But even if they were “only” worth a few 10’s of billions, the real issue is that they own the government. And Zuckerberg and Musk own a monster chunk of our social media, control our opinions.
tl;dr: It’s not real money and the problem is influence, not total wealth.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If works like a piñata - if we beat it open with a club, only then will its contents trickle down.
Oisteink@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Top two are richer than the 3rd + the 50%
gezginorman@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
money is a meaningless construct. Eat the rich.
potatoguy@lemmy.eco.br 2 days ago
On Elon Musk, it’s funny because he never put a profit, like tesla isn’t the biggest, spacex either, X os draining money, his robotics shits are just that: shit.
There isn’t much that he’s done, all of his companies are making less profits (or losing more money if i’m being correct), he is just a jake paul that fakes being a fake intelligent person.
Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 2 days ago
Yeah, its ironic. The richest man in the world doesn't have a single* truly profit-making venture under him.
How the bubble around him hasn't burst yet I don't know, but it would certainly be a feast for sore eyes.
*Edit: Forgot about SpaceX, which actually has made itself a decent chunk of money - about $15.5 billion in 2025 - but I doubt that alone is capable of propping up his nearly $500 billion personal valuation.
asg101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Corporate welfare.
Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
SpaceX has been phenomenally successful. I don’t think he can be attributed to much of that success. The Falcon 9 handled 95% of launches in 2024. SpaceX has went from non existant to a near monopoly in 23 years while competing against some of the most powerfully connected companies in the world.
I’m not a SpaceX fanboy (I’m a space fanboy). They have done a lot of good for the space industry, while also causing a lot of harm to the scientific space community (earth based observations). I just don’t think you can make an argument that SpaceX is not a successful company.
potatoguy@lemmy.eco.br 2 days ago
I agree. Changed the text!
bottleofchips@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Go home drunk, I’m too Dad
TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Apartheid-man’s basically a bubble unto himself.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Not exactly sure what you’re trying to say here but spacex has tentative plans to ipo at a 1.5 trillion valuation.
Wallstreet is salivating over this because they know they get in first and will make bank when retail investor drive the price to ridiculous levels.
potatoguy@lemmy.eco.br 2 days ago
I’m saying that it isn’t so profitable to make anywhere near that amount of money in decades.
Digit@lemmy.wtf 2 days ago
Gov gotta have their corporate frontman. Keeps their hands clean.
Just like his paypal buddy, spinning the golden wool of palantir from the unwelcome rot of total information awareness.
And now no pesky joe-public to get in the way, since it’s corporate, not public.
They’re clever like that.