179 points

Wait till he hears how necessary it is for life to get harder for billionaires.

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That’s why they’re trying to take power. Billionaires would rather destroy the world and drive all life to extinction than to give up their private jets and yachts.

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39 points

just wait till they outlaw protests and impose curfews

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17 points

That’s so 2020. Oh, that was under trump rule. Just a small sample of what’s to come if he gets into office again.

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3 points

do i tell him?

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32 points

The French found a solution some time ago, maybe history really repeats.

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8 points

There are now a lot of people who think we should be nice to billionaires because they also could become one sometime in the future

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18 points

Wouldn’t be the first civilization that disappeared because the elite doesn’t want to compromise and give up status. It’s a constant in history.

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14 points

The worst part is–it’s really not. These guys could all stay millionaires and we could still solve our system’s worst distribution issues. Their biggest hardship could be dealing with not being The Guy With The Biggest Number when they go to their rich guy parties.

Personally I’m in favor of making them destitute and/or imprisoning them, but going that far really isn’t strictly necessary.

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These guys could all stay millionaires and we could still solve our system’s worst distribution issues.

UBI actually makes billionaires richer, even with higher taxes. Money trickles back up to them. The problem with UBI is that it redistributes power, and the powerful want all of their power. Wealth “needs” to buy power.

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11 points

Harder - lol. He’ll have to settle for two 180 foot yachts instead of three.

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146 points

necessary for what?

necessary for what, motherfucker?

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Your comment has the same energy as "states’ rights to do what?", and I’m here for it.

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19 points

If I wasn’t at work I’d edit the goose meme to match.

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37 points

For a complete fascist takeover.

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9 points

🔪🦢

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2 points

Protectionism. Musk stands to gain a ton if there’s less competition from imported EVs, and that’s true for a lot of other products that American companies make. If you can just throw a few million at a presidential campaign and essentially guarantee your competitors will have a 10-60% disadvantage, those few millions can turn into billions in profit.

On paper, the goal seems to be to spur companies to return to the US, but I think the net impact will be higher prices for Americans and reduced trade w/ other countries due to retaliatory tariffs.

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69 points

The fucking gall this billionaire POS has to utter the phrase “live within our means.”

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“Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make”

Why do we only seem to get the bad outlandish things from books and movies? :/

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3 points

Honestly, aggressive climate change would have a similar short-term impact, even if the net result is good, which is a large part of the reason we don’t do aggressive changes like this.

That said, I’m not convinced the net result is good, so we’ll instead have short-term suffering followed by longer-term suffering, all for a bit of protectionism for American businesses (which will probably leave them worse off in the long run anyway).

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Shut up, shut up, shut up please just shtfu already elon. How are people like him and bezos controlling the world? I swear we celebrate and praise mediocre morons in the US.

As a nation we have lost 30 years of progress because we give the loudest most idiotic people to ever live a platform to spew their collective nonsense. Take me back to 2010 where the internet was still fun and not just some massive propaganda machine for the uber wealthy and political nut jobs

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29 points

How are people like him and bezos controlling the world?

Capitalism

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14 points

But without capitalism we wouldn’t have (insert something that has nothing to do with capitalism but that I completely attribute to it). And that would mean no trade.

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6 points

My ancestors wouldnt have pushed at least one Southern plantation owner to suicide.

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Which is now, very very obviously, not a system design to promote it’s own fitness, a la Darwinism…

I wonder what happens to piles of sand placed in the path of high-flowing rivers?

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11 points

The United States has always been the best place for the mediocre white man.

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4 points

In trump’s case, we praise exceptional morons

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He’s never going to shut up. But people keep amplifying his pathetic voice by sharing what he says. There’s a very large group of society that needs to stop sharing outrage fodder.

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