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Hardawn
Mar 15, 2004

Don't look at the sun, but rather what it illuminates
College Slice
have you ever read the wanting seed OP?

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Sophy Wackles
Dec 17, 2000

> access main security grid
access: PERMISSION DENIED.





That Robot posted:

anyone who says "there's no such thing as a free lunch" need to be kicked in the dick


99.99% of peole who say this have no clue what it actually means.

Flesh Croissant
Apr 23, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
Why this thread title reminds me of youtube superstars "Tax the rich"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-4v4I7Gzk0

I wonder how many african babies could be fed with that red car. So this brings us to the most important question of the thread: Is buying a ferrari immoral?

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
Cars like that are what makes life worth living though. I mean, unless you're a starving kid from Chad, then what would make life worth living would be a scoop of dried corn you could boil in a discarded army helmet, but you know what I mean.

Ice Blue Mink
Mar 21, 2017

by zen death robot

Sheep-Goats posted:

Cars like that are what makes life worth living though. I mean, unless you're a starving kid from Chad, then what would make life worth living would be a scoop of dried corn you could boil in a discarded army helmet, but you know what I mean.

hell yeah if you don't have at least 500 horses in your car why bother living at all?

buckets of buckets
Apr 8, 2012

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I hate the rich but I also hate moridins posting wat to do

Hatebag
Jun 17, 2008


I say we bury them alive in anaerobic composters instead. Then they can finally do something for others.

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

buckets of buckets posted:

I hate the rich but I also hate moridins posting wat to do

Over time I've come to terms with the idea that Moridin can manage to not post really badly if he's posting about class issues, which, you have to admit, is a fairly unique talent online.

Sophy Wackles
Dec 17, 2000

> access main security grid
access: PERMISSION DENIED.





Im fairly sure that even if we destroyed the rich, redistributed their assets and then went full socialist, over time money of the many would fall into the hands of the few and a new super rich class would be formed. The new rich would then use their wealth to change the laws back to capitalism.

Hardawn
Mar 15, 2004

Don't look at the sun, but rather what it illuminates
College Slice
Keep eating the rich like wagon wheel pasta, cause it's all cyclical

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

a misanthrope posted:

hack the wealthy down in the streets like rabid dogs

im not joking or being ironic kill all those motherfuckers

Ice Blue Mink
Mar 21, 2017

by zen death robot

Pawn 17 posted:

Im fairly sure that even if we destroyed the rich, redistributed their assets and then went full socialist, over time money of the many would fall into the hands of the few and a new super rich class would be formed. The new rich would then use their wealth to change the laws back to capitalism.



Yeah, imagine just that we have just a guaranteed basic income. I'm going to set up shop and say "hey if you give me the next three months of income when it comes in, I'll write you a check for 90% of that right now!" and now I can get rich off of dumb people. Even in a moneyless society, you could do the same with food, or medicine, or whatever, unless you go full hog and distribute the exact amount of everything to everyone at the moment of consumption (a la prison). Plenty of opportunities like this exist if you're creative enough, even in a real socialism communism world.

Hardawn
Mar 15, 2004

Don't look at the sun, but rather what it illuminates
College Slice
Cut them down

jenny jones fan
Dec 24, 2007
We don't need unions any more because there's laws protecting workers. Furthermore,

Edgar Allan Pwned
Apr 4, 2011

Quoth the Raven "I love the power glove. It's so bad..."
I dont really care if other people have more money than me but i would like everyone to have shelter, food, healthcare etc.

I just dont understand how rich people lose empathy. health insurance costs several iPhones!

jenny jones fan
Dec 24, 2007
Also can anyone tell me who the guy in the OP photo is? Not the Daily Show guy, the other one.

Mordor She Wrote
Nov 17, 2014
I'd just like to say, that in the other thread when I suggested we just go shooting politicians and CEOs everyone is like "no that's a crazy idea".

"Oh many these corporatist pigs are going to bleed the Earth dry and kill everyone"
"well maybe someone should stop them"
"No that's crazy"

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Pawn 17 posted:

Im fairly sure that even if we destroyed the rich, redistributed their assets and then went full socialist, over time money of the many would fall into the hands of the few and a new super rich class would be formed. The new rich would then use their wealth to change the laws back to capitalism.

Oh no 200 years of unprecedented general well being and happiness on Earth and we'd have to do something again afterward to have another 200 how bothersome just leave things as they are I rekken

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:
I wish I was good enough to be a rich person, but I suck too much, I dont deserve to be rich :sigh:

Edgar Allan Pwned
Apr 4, 2011

Quoth the Raven "I love the power glove. It's so bad..."
Wondering how to convince the american people that the french revolution was highly effective in causing change

Toadvine
Mar 16, 2009
Please disregard my advice w/r/t history.

Edgar Allan Pwned posted:

Wondering how to convince the american people that the french revolution was highly effective in causing change

Not gonna happen as long as shipping and telecommunications remain intact.

But maybe give it thirty years? \/:)\/

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

I actually read the linked article and the bit about the janitor being told to work the press and immediately getting his arm crushed is insane, death to america

big time bisexual
Oct 16, 2002

Cool Party

do u know jenny posted:

Also can anyone tell me who the guy in the OP photo is? Not the Daily Show guy, the other one.

Todd Wilemon. He was fired for being on that segment and then tried to sue his previous employer for wrongful termination.

a dingus
Mar 22, 2008

Rhetorical questions only
Fun Shoe
We just need a country that automatically pushes out those super rich, then they move into a new country and since there are just 100,000 of us to 1 of them we can all sneak in and poop on their lawn and charge them millions to clean it up (because the rich won't touch poop). We keep doing this until they're too broke to live there and they have to move back to our country so poo poo on their ex neighbors lawns.

a dingus
Mar 22, 2008

Rhetorical questions only
Fun Shoe
Or we could just all get involved in local politics and elect people who care about us because no matter whether you're rich or poor you still have 1 vote. Whatever is more simple, I dunno.

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005
There's only one thing they're really good for?

Ice Blue Mink
Mar 21, 2017

by zen death robot

VendaGoat posted:

There's only one thing they're really good for?

Trickling the money down to us?

chumbler
Mar 28, 2010

Smeed posted:

Or we could just all get involved in local politics and elect people who care about us because no matter whether you're rich or poor you still have 1 vote. Whatever is more simple, I dunno.

Nah local politics doesn't matter.

-Every democrat voter and strategist

chumbler fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Mar 25, 2017

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
Lipstick Apathy

Pawn 17 posted:

Im fairly sure that even if we destroyed the rich, redistributed their assets and then went full socialist, over time money of the many would fall into the hands of the few and a new super rich class would be formed. The new rich would then use their wealth to change the laws back to capitalism.

Maybe. Only one way to find out.

Mordor She Wrote
Nov 17, 2014
It'll be like the purge except you just kill everyone that makes or 200k a year.

jenny jones fan
Dec 24, 2007

big time bisexual posted:

Todd Wilemon. He was fired for being on that segment and then tried to sue his previous employer for wrongful termination.

https://mobile.twitter.com/toddwilemon

Cough Drop The Beat
Jan 22, 2012

by Lowtax
It's pretty funny how US economic policy has never truly progressed past a racist idiot movie star's hilariously broken ideals.

Mameluke
Aug 2, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
drat Aasif Mandvi, you were great in your single episode of Series of Unfortunate Events, but I wish you had the time to make it really woke like you did in the OP's meme

qkkl
Jul 1, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
There was a sci-fi story I read where a big generation ship was headed to another star to colonize a planet. On board were two classes of people. The rich people were in cryogenic storage and were going to wake up when the ship got to the planet. The poor people maintained the ship, and also reproduced and died normally, since it would take hundreds of years to reach the planet.

One day the machine that produced food for the ship broke and no one could fix it. So the poor people resorted to eating the cryogenically frozen rich people. The ending scene was the leader of the rich being woken up and saying he was glad they finally arrived at the planet, only to get stabbed to death.

Toadvine
Mar 16, 2009
Please disregard my advice w/r/t history.
Snowpiercer

Dubplate Fire
Aug 1, 2010

:hfive: bruvs be4 luvs

Streak posted:

Its so hosed that when you talk about killing the rich people look at you like you're crazy or some poo poo

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

qkkl posted:

There was a sci-fi story I read where a big generation ship was headed to another star to colonize a planet. On board were two classes of people. The rich people were in cryogenic storage and were going to wake up when the ship got to the planet. The poor people maintained the ship, and also reproduced and died normally, since it would take hundreds of years to reach the planet.

One day the machine that produced food for the ship broke and no one could fix it. So the poor people resorted to eating the cryogenically frozen rich people. The ending scene was the leader of the rich being woken up and saying he was glad they finally arrived at the planet, only to get stabbed to death.

Owned

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-0lAhnoDlU

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012


It's funny he ended up hosting family feud

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Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
but what happens when you steal all the rich money and it turns out there isnt enough to go around after all?

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