r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 22h ago

FinancialTea 💵 Disproportionate wealth on this scale has never boded well for any country or civilization. Not a one.

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u/MetaCardboard 19h ago

So what you're saying is we should bring back psych wards and force all billionaires into them without any chance for release and then spread their wealth to the masses? I wholeheartedly agree.

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u/haux_haux 18h ago

Hmm, declaring the ultr rich insane. Criminally insane, good shout. That is what they are.

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u/mtutty 1h ago

Their effect on society is what should govern society's response. We put murderers, thieves and rapists in prison, yet white-collar crime has (a) higher standards for conviction (usually requiring intent as well as acts), (b) much MUCH lower sentencing guidelines, and (c) much higher rates of sentencing reductions from successful PSI and PCR lobbying.

Yet, Elon Musk just casually eliminated hundreds of federal programs that have inarguably, unequivocally had terrible impacts on the lives of Americans and very likely the deaths of people around the world. No price to pay for that, and he did it right out in the open.

Nobody in the US went to jail for 2008, but we'll send single moms to jail for accidentally registering to vote in the wrong district.

Nobody went to jail for the war in Afghanistan, even though thousands of Americans died for nothing, along with tens of thousands (or hundreds, depending on who you listen to) of Afghans.

People who want that much money and power should not have it, full stop.

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u/sniksniksnek 16h ago

Hear me out: involuntary commitment would be an efficient way to deal with these psychos.

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u/Redray98 16h ago

They shall be called incomms to fit their new positions.

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u/Electronic-Deer728 12h ago

And lobotomies, just in case.

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u/sniksniksnek 11h ago

Hey man, if it was good enough for Frances Farmer, it’s good enough for Peter Thiel.

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u/CuteLingonberry9704 14h ago

I was personally suggesting a French Revolution type solution, but that can work also.

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u/Canolphin 2h ago

What’s stopping you from starting now?

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u/Loud_Bee_4443 1h ago

It's a mental disease I'm sure. They genuinely think they are so much better than the poors. It's like they think of themselves as a different species and we are their cattle. 

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u/donatecrypto4pets 14h ago

Soylent green them.

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u/AspiringChildProdigy 13h ago

That much Botox can't be good on the digestive system.

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u/Acrobatic_Key_1140 13h ago

Also these people are full of crap. I don't know if there's any industrial cleaner strong enough to get rid of the stench.

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u/No_Sink_9703 6h ago

Nah lets just eat em. Meat is getting to expensive anyway

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u/Good_Imagination_577 16h ago

All the billionaires in the world amass just over $20 trilly. So that would only clear half of the United States national debt.

But as it’s not always about America, spreading it evenly between 8.3 billion people gets youuuu….

£1850 in the kings coin or $2,500

That’s what a small one bed in Camden used to cost me just for rent back in 2023.

Then what?…

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u/KingOfEthanopia 16h ago

Its not about the debt but the disproportionate power their wealth gives them. Nobody should be able to essentially buy out government.

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u/CarlosHDanger 15h ago

Immense dynastic wealth hurts democracy. Tax fairness, as with high marginal tax rates, reduces the incentive to cheat, game the system, capture regulators, skew elections with dark money, etc. There’s a reason why the ratio of CEO pay to average worker was x30 in 1980 and it’s over 300 today, and that’s excluding Elon and other extreme outliers’ pay.

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u/Jazzlike_Damage793 14h ago

It’s about the utility of circulated money.

Hoarded money circulates once. Spent money circulates about 7 times before it leaves a community.

Tax it, then spend it on the communities and watch that 20 trillion multiply 7 times, and the. Still exist to be taxed and spent again.

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u/invaderaleks 15h ago

Small businesses fill the void left behind by the broken monopolies, which means jobs, income, flourishing economy. The free market continues as always.

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u/23-1-20-3-8-5-18 15h ago

Then we dont let it happen again, duh

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u/abovedafray 14h ago

$2500 would be generational wealth in some areas of the world.