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      Yeah exactly. Normal inheritance means their kids or spouse inherit, and the number of billionaires remains the same.

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        Fun fact, if I were to inherit the wealth of a billionaire family member who was shot in public I’d get philanthropic real fast!

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          Many people say this. However of those who talk the talk, barely any ever walk the walk.

          However I think if you are born an heir to a billionaire, you’d lack the perspective which might foster selfless philanthropy.

          I’d like to think that if someone from the working class would randomly get such money they would. But it still seems unlikely.

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            self preservation isn’t a selfless motive, but if it results in philanthropy then that’s a win.

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              Also, he has a lot of kids now… money tied up over inheritance squabbles and civil cases getting redistributed to lawyers and court systems. I imagine more kids will come out of the woodwork too claiming a piece of the inheritance pie

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          That is why MacKenzie Scott is the best living billionaire.

          She did just that before all this mess started.

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      By this algorithm, it would have to. Otherwise it’d just create a new billionaire who’d go to the back of the line

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      In some cases, the wealth might simple be gone because the stock crashes of which the bulk of the wealth is built.

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    Starting a psyop on 4chan for making edgy school shooter wannabes start aiming at billionaires instead.

    “You see anon, it’s not that girls don’t like you or that your class has 1 non-white person in cornbread America, it’s that billionaires are leeches in society, and the cops they own would stop you. Don’t fire at classmates, fire at the upper class.”

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      For good measure point out that people migrating into the country are often because the 1% are offering them otherwise high paying jobs at below minimum wage, but thanks to the exchange rate that’s like a million dollars an hour back in their home country.

      Don’t make it obvious that you’re on the Left or they’ll ignore you on principle. Make it sound like you’re “one of them”

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      I tried to teach socialism for terminally 4chan people, it’s hard, and can be immediately undone by /pol/, some other nazi shit, etc.

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    My OCD wonders if they factored in having to assassinate the heirs of the CEOs who immediately become billionaires, recursively until every fortune has been divvied up so many ways nobody has a billion anymore. Cuz that would be necessary if you really want to “run out” of billionaires, and would also mean you advocate executing children for inheriting a lot of money. This does require thinking beyond the simple meme, but go ahead - you can do it!

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      Unlike royalty the transfer of wealth isn’t instant so if you work fast enough you can achieve a brief window when there are no billionaires.

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    I love how Luigi has become a defacto symbol of the revolution. I can’t imagine Nintendo being happy about it.

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    Also, only about 28,000 hundred-million-plus-inaires on Earth.

    For perspective, significantly more Palestinians have already been casually genocided by our bestie trade partner in that current conflict.

    The blight upon our civilization of billions is not that large.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/10/number-of-people-with-100-million-has-doubled-since-2003.html

    I’m not even suggesting they be adjusted, because I’m not a sociopath like they are. Use an economic guillotine, confiscate their exploitation gotten hoards for the commons(yes nationalize essential industries like utilities and Healthcare so they’re owned by society), reshape the economy to stop rewarding speculative gambling with exploitation gotten chips over honest labor and vocations like teachers that keep civilization running, obviously institute a maximum wealth cap as other people live in this society going forward to prevent recurrance, bring their ego scores to zero for their murderous greed, let them keep $20 and give each of them a set of literal, cheap bootstraps, and let them get a real job.

    Bar them from forming any kind of corporate entities or investing in anything other than a standard savings account for life, just as people convicted of computer crimes are sometimes barred from operating computers as they’ve proven they’re a danger to others with them.

    I’d be shocked if half of them didn’t take themselves out of the equation suddenly being subject to the same reality as their current livestock.

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    That would involve people actually doing something rather than waiting for someone else.

    And even then you guys would fall into conspiracy theories because you can’t believe someone actually did something.

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      It’s a prisoner’s dilemma. Of fucking course we should revolt and save the world. Organizing that is not easy, especially when it makes you a target.

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    Good point, even though the numbers don’t check out.

    There were 69 children killed this year. 813 billionaires in the US. It would take almost 12 years.

    Edit: These are only the school shootings, not the all deaths of minors