• nonentity@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

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      In deed. At some point, say 100 million for arguments sake. Once you accumulate that much wealth, you are taxed at 100%. You may not own, or make, anything above that number through any means. Forced retirement would also be something to think about. Giving younger generations a chance to make a life for themselves as well.

      Society as a whole, would flourish.

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      Calling it “financial obesity” makes it sound innocuous or even good. Wealth hoarding is treason.

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        This is either slop from a refried prompt, or an act of Olympic calibre mental gymnastics.

        Obesity is always a threat to the health of any system where the term is invoked. Its tolerance and normalisation is functionally suicidal.