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they look delicious.

They're a cancer on society.

I think there’s about 8-10% too many of them. To make things fair, we should remove an equal portion of each (starting from the top).

I respect some of what they do but they should be taxed more and the top ones a lot more.

Like most parasites, they have an important place in the ecosystem.

Ticks for instance are a source of food for several species.

Honestly, I try not to think about them. It's an inherently selfish and self-serving class and they've got enough money to pay people to think about them, so I'm not going to do it for free.

Medium rare with a little bit of butter and thyme.

The easiest way to identify enemies of freedom and liberty. Count their net worth.

I under stand the human desire to compete in wealth as a [genitalia] measuring contest, but there should probably be a cap somewhere...

Maybe a cap at somewhere between 500K and $10Mil, I'm not sure where, but someone else fancy enough to write laws should maybe figure it out... cuz any amount higher kinda make no sense.

Oh and redistribute the excess as a UBI that everyone would get.

I don't like the bandwagon of "kill billionaires". Like why need to kill when we can just seize excess funds that they don't need and redistribute, everyone can just chill.

If anything, I have ever so slightly less problems with billionaires like Gabe Newell (Valve ceo) since he's doing something constructive (proton/steam deck) that, while it does absolutely help line his pockets, is still helpful to people who play games.

Though on a moral level I personally feel not allowed to like him because he's a billionaire. That sentiment is spread across all billionaires for me. Either way, in general I don't like them because 99.9999999% of all billionaires do as much as possible to fuck over literally everyone else.

I feel like there are billionaires in the world who manage to be rich without damaging society (or being the society).

If there's one example then there's no excuse for all the others to behave the way they do..

If all billionaires are the same then it's past time to question why we have to put up with them

Fuck 'em all to death.

Not good

I'm always thinking about how bad humans are when thinking about numbers rationally. Of course we understand what a "billion" is, we know how many 0's it has and can do basic mathematical operations on it. But how much is it really? One of my favorite analogies for putting it in perspective is seconds.

A million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 31 years. A trillion seconds is … 31,688 years.

The analogy already breaks down, because while most people could understand 12 days and a lot of adults can understand 31 years for having lived it (some even twice or more!), 31,688 years is completely incomprehensible again. How many human generations is that? All of recorded human history is only like 5,000 years. It’s utterly, mind-numbingly insane. No trillionaires, ever! No billionaires!!!

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/17/business/elon-musk-richest-person-trillionaire/index.html

This was published on September 17th of this year, after most of the nonsense of Twitter and utter things. He’s still on track, by 2027 no less.

Seems logical if there was a law that the average worker had to be paid a percentage of what the top people get paid. I thought that Japan had something like this.

Too much power

Don't know them, don't care about them.

Is this a joke topic?

They need to regularly take a shit, like everybody else. They just use more expensive toilet paper I suppose.