Unpopular opinion: you should not go to jail for murder if the person you murdered was a billionaire. That’s not murder, that’s public service.

Dumb opinion

okay. here's a billion dollars, can i kill you now?

sorry, but even the worst human being is a human being.

also: just seizing all their assets and making them watch as you spread them among the poor is a much better punishment.

Where do you stand on certified prince 2 practitioners?

@tosensei I'll kill you first if you have that billion you want to give to me

@kiki what if i give it to you in two installments of half a billion, while only getting the second one myself after i gave you the first one? ;)

Must billionaires don't have a billion dollars. They built companies they own stock in that got valued in the billions.

They can't sell it when they want, and if they tried to sell it all, it wouldn't be a billion dollars anymore.

It shouldn't even be possible to be a billionaire.

I don't even begin to understand how it could possibly be done but my ideal economic system would make it easy to accumulate relatively modest amounts of money, but would get progressively harder to accumulate larger and larger amounts of money. So it's easy to go from nothing to 10k, but effectively impossible to go from 10m to 100m.

@matthewbdaly too bad that's the exact opposite of what reality says. because compound interest is a bitch.

and if you want to achieve this by regulations, prepare to be demonised as "evil commie" by those who would benefit the most, but understand the least.

@lungdart if I understand correctly, they use their company stocks and other stuff as collateral for money they borrow. They do not actually have a billion dollars. But given the absurd amount, it stops meaning anything when they can borrow millions anyway.

@matthewbdaly it is very difficult to get to 1 billion. Mission accomplished!

You basically have to start a company and take it to unicorn status. Then the banks will give you money any time you ask, and if your stocks drop you declare bankruptcy and don't pay anyone back. Otherwise you need to exit your stake to pay up.

Pretty fucking hard.

@lungdart No, the point is it's cumulatively easier to get more money once you have some. Your first billion is a lot harder to get than your second billion. Ideally it should be the other way around.

@matthewbdaly it's all made up make belief money. It's not zero sum. If I own company A, and it goes from 1m valuation to 100m valuation, i didn't just take 90m from everyone else.

Rich finance guys will steal it slowly from the autists on wallstreetbets, and that will have nothing to do with me (unless I'm selling)

also, I never said billionaires should be systematically killed in a centralized manner. They can live, and they won't have any legal troubles for being billionaires (for the time being), but if someone happens to murder one, in one way or another, they won't be prosecuted.

@kiki you do know that, with human beings being as they are, "legalising their murder" is practially the same as "systematically killing them" - only with a bit of marketing sprinkled on.

@tosensei if that logic was true, 2nd amendment would've destroyed America long ago

@kiki and now take a look at the USA and consider wether or not it is "doing fine" ;)

Radicalising shit stirrer.