[an evil looking machine drenched in blood looks to be grinding people into bones]
[an orange character wearing a monocle and tophat shows the machine and speaks]
No ethical billionaires? What do you mean?
My poor people crusher reduces the number of poor people society has to care for
It saves us a lot of money and effort
People’s hate for billionaires is really overblown and unfair
You’re just jealous
https://thebad.website/comic/ethical_billionaire
Mitchell and Webb’s “Kill The Poor”
“I’m not saying we should actually kill the poor. I’m just asking if we’ve run the numbers.”
If you kill every poor people, there will still be poor people
Oh hell yeah, they made a sequel to the orphan crushing machine!
There’s a few sequels, in accordance with our billionaires’ infinite ingenuity for beautiful inventions!
Capitalism breeds innovation! Your machine takes way too much delta V to launch orphans to a collision course with the sun. It takes less delta V to simply deport them from the solar system!
My orphan crushing machine is better than yours. Capitalism is so much more efficient!!!
spoiler
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Effective Altruism at its finest.
Are you saying that we can drastically cut down on emissions if we just start feeding all of the excess poor into the grinder?
That will leave so much room for additional data centers!
In reality, excess labor is sent to prison at $20-60k/year/inmate. (US)
Yeah, but don’t forget how profitable it is for the companies to have workers they can legally pay below minimum wage pittance.
All it costs is people’s freedom and (ironically in the context of USA) tax money.
Edit: typo
Yes. The state is, in effect, the tool that keeps workers alive (food stamps, medicaid) so they can work for minimum wage, or sent to jail if they can’t where they can be compelled to work for less. The system is designed to extract as much labor as possible.
And communism is bad for some reason.
Reality is worse than this. Legitimately far worse.
What the billionaires don’t seem to realize is that if they kill all of the poor people, the their economy will tank and they will have to figure out how to feed themselves.
That’s probably why they are dreaming about those autonomous androids so much.
A modest proposal, but effective
What an innovator and thought leader.
Honestly, this would be a step up from how it is.
The machine kills enough poor people to keep the rest of them in line to extract everything they are worth.
You think killing poor people faster would be better?
What?
Subtle.
I downvote not because I disapprove of the message. I downvote because these cartoons completely lack effort, subtlety and are neither funny nor smart. Just kinda annoying and ragebaity.
Meanwhile, 16 out of 19 of your contributions to Lemmy since you created your account two years ago, are memes
If you find altruism ragebaity that suggests there is something deeply wrong with you.
