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.

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        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.

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          If I have a company, where I intentionally make choices that kill my costumers, that would make me liable for manslaughter, me and anyone involved in the deaths. why healthcare billionaires are not liable?

          same with every other billionaire who profits from human suffering and deaths.

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            No, actually, it doesn’t make you liable for manslaughter. It probably doesn’t even rise to the level of civil liability for wrongful death. They are compliant with the law, and they make sure of that by having their lawyers write the laws. The “anyone involved in the deaths” includes the deceased themselves, who is determined to bear primary responsibility.

            We can override the laws they are writing (Guillotine Party) or we can suspend the laws to hold them accountable (guillotine party). But jailing them without a conviction just isn’t feasible.

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              fuck the law. those laws let them off the hook because they bribed (lobby) to have those laws.

              Just because a mass murder is legal does not mean it has to go unpunished.

              The holocaust was 100% legal, and no one has ever complained that it is unfair to prosecute nazis for not breaking the law.

              when the law is so unfair, you cannot use the law as an argument.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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?

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    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.

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      Correct, because the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is roughly 1 billion dollars.

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      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 just a bit shy of $2000.

      Fun thought experiment

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      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.

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    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 the shallow, greedy present day society, billionaires would be treated the same as other hoarders - seen 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.

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    We should start call them hoarders instead. They are just as obsessed and wierd about it.

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    1st world culture makes them. Quit supporting that. We only have ourselves to blame. It’s time to own up to that fact.

    You don’t need much of the things they market to you.

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    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.