Surprise, surprise!

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    7 months ago

    I wonder where all that wealth would go if they suddenly died from accidents, and any potential heirs or next of kin also died.

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        7 months ago

        It would literally vanish. Wealth is not cash. If Amazon disappeared one day, not a single person’s (poor or not) bank account would get bigger as a result.

        Murderous envy is all that’s thinly-veiled here.

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          7 months ago

          not a single person’s (poor or not) bank account would get bigger as a result

          Likely not, but I’d like to think the social reforms with an attack on the wealthy would bring some of our rights back and help with our standards of living issues our poor currently face thanks to the wealthy systematically disabling the things that brought prosperity and protected people. While you call it murderous envy, others might call it true social justice.

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            7 months ago

            Killing people because you decided their stuff is valued too highly is not any kind of justice, no matter what kind of spin you put on it.

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              7 months ago

              It’s not their stuff that’s wanted overall, to me it seems like hope is what’s in question here. They stand in the way of hope, voting doesn’t work, so I wonder if violent removal would.

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                7 months ago

                They stand in the way of hope

                Literally a nonsensical statement. Stuff overall worldwide is way better now than it was 100 years ago, and there were way fewer billionaires (even when adjusting for inflation) back then.

                Stop making excuses. Nothing’s in your way other than your victim mentality.

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                  7 months ago

                  Oh so medical bankruptcy isn’t a thing? Decline of ownership isn’t a thing? The unwinding of worker protections isn’t a thing? Shove off, bootlicker.