Well, this is annoying

https://lemmy.world/post/47818355

Musk isn’t worth US$800B, it’s how much he’s been permitted to hoard.

No one can earn a billion dollars, that level of wealth concentration can only ever be forcibly extracted from the work of millions of others, or gifted from someone who did.

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.

Okay but hear me out: guillotines are really fucking cute.

I’m by no means against deploying a sharp edge with guardrails, I just see guillotines taking many forms.

You could take their money at the same time as their heads, but I’d argue it more fitting for the experience of extraction to be drawn out.

This isn’t about the symbolism. This is about the actual machines. I think they’re cute.
Can’t cut watermelons efficiently with a firing squad but it sends the same message with less archaic violence. Guns r cute in the right context. Proof: share.google/J9Q8VLrWzVYv4DTqc
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No this isn’t a euphemism. I think they’re cute and want one in my kitchen.