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  1. We're trying to improving working conditions and pay.

  2. We're trying to reduce the numbers of hours a person has to work.

  3. We talk about the end of paid work being mandatory for survival.

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[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Billionaires should not exist. They should be taxed out of existence.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Seriously. If they want to keep their money, they should be forced to invest it in companies that generate jobs.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn’t that exactly where most billionaire’s wealth typically is? A lot is in stock of some company they started or invested in.

You can’t gobble up the excess value created by workers if there are no workers.

[–] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

...unless you gobble up your rivals instead, creating a monopoly, shrinking the job pool through consolidation, sweating the remaining employees that are competing for the vanishing opportunities to keep a roof over their heads, causing market failure and generally fucking everyone over.

This is the strategy adopted by the likes of Bezos, Zuckerberg, the Waltons, and arguably the majority of the biggest drains on our society. Billionaires

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[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Consider this: a million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 31 years. It really helps me understand just how obscenely wealthy these people are, how much money they are hoarding. They're leeches.

[–] Kingofthezyx@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By that measure, $100,000 a year for 60 years is 70 days.

And since a billion seconds is 31 years, Musk is worth almost 7000 years.

[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

There are people on this planet who could give up 90% of their wealth and still ensure a more than comfortable life for themselves and their family, for a dozen generations and more.

And yet they keep all of it.

Then you'll have the people defending them with the good old argument that no one should be expected to give up their hard-earned wealth.

Sure, except these twats „earned“ it through exploitation and misery. No one gets this filthy rich with honest and fair work, that's not how the game works.

[–] crazyminner@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Can we just get here already, these memes are nice, but where are the actual guillotines?

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[–] Pissnpink@feddit.uk 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Yoryo@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hungry like a french peasant from 1789.

[–] ButtholeSpiders@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They learned a lesson from that, now they have us bickering with each other over rich political figures who we treat like celebrities. So, it’ll take longer to come to the French Revolution stage, by then they’ll be in safety bunkers.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

Bunkers fail, and we have mining equipment.

[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I'm already feeling a bit hangry

[–] punkisundead@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Because its relevant

Against the Logic of the Guillotine Why the Paris Commune Burned the Guillotine—and We Should Too

For me the main point is: If you are able to execute your enemies publicly on the guillotine, you have already won and actually have better(more in line with your ideals) ways to deal with ex billionaires.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree. Launching them into orbit and shoving them out the airlock would garner a much greater sense of poetic justice.

[–] punkisundead@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

Or maybe, if you actually think they should be killed, do it now? Like why wait for some situation like you described that might never happen.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree, but this is an image, not a guillotine. Maybe you could argue the image of a guillotine could lead to similar methods being used if a revolution happens, but I don't know if that's worth discussing in depth. As a tool to transport a message, I think a guillotine is valid. As a method of murder, probably not.

[–] GnothiSeauton@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

But the message the guillotine is transporting is "lets start murdering".

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[–] poszod@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Garbage, low effort, polarising post that does nothing to further the actually important antiwork movement.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ew gross.

I'm not fucking any of those ugly bastards.

[–] Sused@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago
[–] cake@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago

Viva la revolution

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