• NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip
      2·
      2 个月前

      Well if this administration can be believed (…I doubt it), there have been at least 3 attempts on Trump’s life in the last two years.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    13·
    2 个月前

    I know that I can’t take no more
    It ain’t no lie
    I wanna see you out that door
    Baby, Tri, Bi, bye (Bye, bye)

  • T00l_shed@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 个月前

    We now can say " the difference between a trillion dollars and a billion dollars is a trillion dollars." So we got that going for us, which is nice

  • Seth Taylor@lemmy.world
    91·
    2 个月前

    A society that is in desperate need of a revolution 99% tax rates for extreme wealth

    You wanna make a mess, make it in your neighborhood. I want the problem solved today by bank transfer

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      2 个月前

      Not all revolutions are violent, but the ownership class will sooner hire armies to defend their wealth and power than submit to a general strike, or the laws of a liberal nation.

      Then there’s the matter of the climate crisis, exacerbated by data centers and the US’ cling to fossil fuels.

      The mess will absolutely come to your neighborhood whether you want it to or not.

  • Captain Howdy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    7·
    2 个月前

    It’s a sign of a failed system, but even billionaires are too much. No one individual/family should have that much wealth or power. The first billionaire was just over 100 years ago, and look at us today. The point is, once someone has that amount of wealth, reality bends around them making them powerful enough to protect themselves. They then influence the state which is not there to represent them, but us. All serious nations must consider a 100% wealth tax on anyone with over 10 million in net worth. Capitalism has made it a long time, sure. And one could argue life at the bottom is marginally better than feudalism or whatever, sure. But obviously we’re at the end of the experiment and need a reset.

    • howrar@lemmy.ca
      3·
      2 个月前

      The important part being that policies are tested. Every policy should come with a desired outcome, the time scale for achieving it, and a way to measure it.

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      2 个月前

      That sounds like central planning, and the thing about that is when your bureaucracy gets big enough to test all the policies for a whole society, corrupt bastards sneak in and start meddling for personal gain.

  • llama@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4·
    2 个月前

    And yes we’re all aware at this point that stock value isn’t real money. That almost makes it even worse. As a society we’re more concerned with fake numbers on screens than we are with people in our communities.

    • razzazzika@lemmy.zip
      5·
      2 个月前

      Yeah which is 1000 billionaires or a million millionaires. Its… an insane amount of money. Like thats fix the world money but to get that amount of money he had to fuck the world up.

  • Danarchy@lemmy.nz
    3·
    2 个月前

    3 trillion is so much money that you could be visited by 1200 ghosts of Christmas past EACH SECOND since the Triassic period and still be bound by the chains you forged in life