• ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com
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    9 days ago

    It’s very concerning that the richest person to have ever lived is a full Blut und Boden fascist. This should be but probably won’t be a wakeup call to all decent people worldwide that something is very wrong with capitalism. And not just capitalism, but very advanced and deeply embedded capitalism. Musk is an evil fuck, and no amount of money can buy him a soul.

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      He’s also a moron. The fact that he is the most successful confidence man in the world, says a lot about our world now. Companies trading at hundreds of times their intrinsic values.

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      8 days ago

      Being ludicrously rich and being a fascist go hand in hand. People obsessed conning governments out of large amounts of money don’t tend to be in favour of helping others.

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      Oh shit the fuck up. It’s not capitalism. I live in that society and I’d never do that shit.

      Some people are just fucking rotten.

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      It’s very concerning that the richest person to have ever lived is a full Blut und Boden fascist

      I think your opinion is hilarious. Would you feel better about him if he wore rainbow flags, blm and other fun stuff for the poor? You totally miss the problem here.

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    Tbh it doesn’t matter to me whether he’s a billionaire or trillionaire (of course there’s a huuge financial difference, but both is way too much already). He’s just the most prominent ugly symptom of capitalism. No permanent fix to prevent this unless we get rid of these systems.

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        Some taxing is not gonna be enough. We need to make sure nobody can hoard that much at all. This is going to happen again and again in capitalism, taxes or not.

        As I said, it’s a symptom. Taxes can lower the symptom and the money can be used for social improvements. But I’d rather address the root cause.

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      You simultaneously said we should fix the system while not caring about the class that warped the system in the first place.

      You have to get rid of both. The system that allows the disparity and the wealth to warp it. If there is wild disparity it will always seek to bend the system further in its favor, and the only way to prevent that is to kill the disparity.

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        I didn’t read it that way. I read it as the difference between billionaire and trillionaire being irrelevant, neither should be a thing.

        The systems and the rich both need to go. I’d argue that those who disagree should too.

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        while not caring about the class that warped the system in the first place.

        No, I did not say that. I said they’re a symptom and that the magnitude of their property is not the main problem - the existence of accumulated property is. Of course we need to redistribute their wealth to the people. That’s part of the system change.

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    9 days ago

    As the billionaires multiply their wealth by a factor of 1000, so too do I multiply my personal hatred for them, and so too does the social urgency of their abolition multiply anarchy

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    8 days ago

    I had a thought about it.

    Elon Musk has 14 children.

    If you chop off his head, there will be 14 more billionaires. Elon Musk is the Hydra.

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          It’s probably dependent on your age and location, but a lot of people associate the Donald Duck Uncle Scrooge with the Dickens story thanks to this:

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    I’ve never wished for a plane crash before but we’ve never had a trillionaire before either. Today is a day of firsts!

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    Musk is another chode eating cunt with no real friends.

    While I have no doubt that a lot of money would make my life better I know I have genuine friends who I’ve known for more than 30 years.

    He has none.

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      Musk is another chode eating cunt with no real friends.

      He’s absolutely got friends. They’re fucking awful people. But they’re in position to catapult him into the stratosphere.

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    Fake trillionaire because if he ever tried to liquidate his holdings it would crash the world economy. Of course our wonderful financial system allows him to borrow against his fake wealth and leave the rest of us holding the bag

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      Fake trillionaire

      I wonder what you believe a true trillionaire/billionaire/millionaire is. All money is fake, at best they are just paper, that’s the whole point of modern economy.

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        If you being a trillionaire (perhaps even a billionaire were’re talking about Musk) relies entirely on overinflated market valuation ans not your actual physical assets value, then you don’t have that money.

        You do realize that you can become a trillionaire for a day either, don’t you? Just create a company, enter the market, emit gazillion actions and convince someone to buy it from you for a couple of bucks. Boom, all your gazillion actions are now worth that money. Try to avoid tax office at this point though.

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          Create a company with a quadrillion shares. Sell one share to a friend for $1.

          edit: And when someone else says bullshit, no one else will buy a share, find someone else to buy 1 share for $1 and prove the valuation lol

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          emit gazillion actions

          Where emitting “actions” is German(?) for issuing stocks.