it means avoiding being eaten. The People are easily placated. That’s how they become billionaires to begin with, no one stops them because shiny thing! The other billionaires would each donate like 10% of their wealth to foundations they already control and people will think that’s so fucking awesome of them.
Why do we want the rest to fall in line? Why not just eat them all, and prevent the next billionaire from ever existing in the first place?
“fall in line” here means redistribute their unearned wealth
it means avoiding being eaten. The People are easily placated. That’s how they become billionaires to begin with, no one stops them because shiny thing! The other billionaires would each donate like 10% of their wealth to foundations they already control and people will think that’s so fucking awesome of them.
then we’ll eat a second
Only way to do that is through taxes and a world wide wealth cap.
Anyone worth a million dollars has all their next income 100% go to taxes until their worth goes below
Nobody should be able to just gather unlimited resources
Because billionaires are inevitable thanks to our economic system and the indomitable human spirit.
If we eat them all, they will just keep spawning
I think “eat the rich” implies also a significant change in the economic system towards something actually democratic and scientific.
Democracy was a mistake. It allows any idiot to rule as long as the people choOse them.
We need something like a god emperor ruling upon us or something.
Neoliberal western democracy is not the only style of democracy possible