• Billegh
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    What’s funny is that $1,000,000,000,000 is enough to give 18,000,000 families of four $35,000 (slightly above the us poverty live for a family of four), and still have over $350,000,000,000 left.

    Edit: maybe funny isn’t the right word…

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    The billions these monsters are taking in comes from somewhere. The oligarchs are using the middle class for their personal piggy bank, while America self-medicates with cheap beer and reality shows.

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    Amazing how in the two years since Trump took office for his second term, his wealth has grown 5x.

    Five. Fucking. Times.

    He was worth scantly less than 200B back in 2024.

    In 2025, he went up to 342B. What is that like 75%?

    And how 3x since last year.

    Man everyone thought he was crazy for buying twitter. Him, Zuck, Bezos, and Ellison need to be first in line for the guillotines.

  • nonentity@sh.itjust.works
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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.

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

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    The Billionaires have captured the system and the average person has no awareness or care.

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    If you use twitter you are directly to blame. Stop upvoting twitter repost, upvote serious posts that calls out elon musk not memes.

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    Nothing you can do about it. Don’t waste your time complaining, choose to appreciate what you have.

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    While I agree it is a moral failure it also seems like a direct attack on the populace. Did they go to war with the populace and not tell them? Let them make a formal declaration of war against their own citizens then see where all the shit falls. “/s” but not “/s”.

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    A guy is given money to build rockets. If he used it to feed the hungry and house the homeless, it would be fraud. His unwillingness to steal isn’t a moral failure on his part.

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    What was the figure? All it would take to end world hunger is 500 billion or something like that? Half one person’s weath?

    What sort of person has that amount and decides not to end world hunger.

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      The same kind of person that steals a trillion from society in the first place

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        The same kind of person who ends government programs that help those hungry people, killing hundreds of thousands of them

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      Musk said he could do it with six billion.

      Naturally, he didn’t even try.

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      Hunger is a political problem, not a money problem. You can’t just say “here are X billion dollars, let’s end world hunger”. Having said that, the system that allows people like Musk to get that rich, is also the same system that creates hunger.

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        In a capitalism-controlled world, political problems are money problems.

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        Here in the good ole USA money and politics are the same thing. If you have the political will, you can get the money and if you have the money, you can but the political will.

        That said, didn’t Elmo have a beef with the fucking United Nations because he said he’d pay the 6 or 7 billion to end world hunger if the could prove that it’s possible and then they produced a detailed plan and he quibbled and but-akshually’ed his way to a reneg because he never intended to do jack shit for anyone other than himself?

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      Not defending this worthless sack of shit but I’m certain he doesn’t actually have that much money

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      What it would really take to end world hunger is massive systemic change that’s actually pretty straight-forward but is fought by every single person who loves a deaperate workforce and their insane conservative followers who believe that their greatest enemy is a hungry person.

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    Capital punishment should be reserved solely for trillionaires.

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    I don’t consider him a trillionaire. The stock he holds is of an unprofitable company. If he tried to hold a trillion dollars in his hands by cashing out on the stock, it would plummet, who would buy that at that price without the hype? If he cant hold a trillion dollars in his hands, how can he be a trillionaire? Its purely speculative.

    It’s like some ancient king claiming to be a trillionaire because a lot of people believe that there’s a ton of gold in his kingdom - without good evidence. There’s no guarantee he’d be able to mine enough gold to become a trillionaire, so why call him that?