• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    not much of a plan. ‘lets tax the billionaires out of existence’'… yeah we all know that, but implementation is the real issue we have yet to solve for.

    its hard to pass laws against rich people when rich people are the ones in control of passing laws.

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      lets tax the billionaires out of existence

      Yeah “tax”. That’s the word. Sure is the word I’m sure we’ve all been thinking of. Must be.

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        The slap chop has to be at most, 2.5m in diameter. That’s not really that big. I’m just saying, building a slap chop of that size is pretty simple. Could even get hydraulics so you don’t have to have ten buff guys at the top pushing the slapper down.

        I’m not sure what I would use that big of a slap chop on though. Maybe a really big salad, or a giant egg?

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      Unfortunately, I think it won’t happen until there’s a revolution. Looking at France, 1789.

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        Even that is just a stop gap. Look at France today. Revolutions, long-term rarely ever worked out that well. How about iran, North korea, russia, china, even the United states?

        The problem with revolutions is that ignorant people see them as a quick fix to everything that’s wrong. But without a fundamental change to society culture and human thinking in general. Things will sooner or later and go back to being brutally dictated by a few with undeserved wealth and influence. Fundamental changes that themselves cannot be brought about by revolution. Fundamental changes that do not need Revolution to be brought about. Fundamental changes that any Revolution is useless without.

        Killing people is easy. Changing Minds is hard. But until we change Minds there will always be another must for Hitler eager to fill the void

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      Also it doesn’t matter if the rich people just give themselves access to the taxation funds.