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Every day we're here just to learn billionaires & families should be crushed and their wealth redistributed amongst third world countries.
That would just make other billionaires somewhere else. The problem is the system not the people
He did not say "once". I think they're suggesting a systematic approach. I periodic Purge if you will. Like some shitty movie.
The moment they go above a certain amount and still act shitty, they are food.
I wouldn't care about rich people if they just paid their workers, paid their taxes, looked at reducing the pollution of their companies, didn't lobby against the public interests, and just were all around swell people.
The problem is that they aren't, none of them are.
Either they become like that from being rich, or only awful people are moralless enough to become rich. But there isn't a single good rich person.
MacKenzie Scott is the sole exception
Yup, the problem is firmly the system, but suggesting a worldwide change to socialism/communism is less "palatable" and believable by the average person.
So "eat the rich" is a decent compromise for a comment not intended to approach any sort of complex answer, while still being a move in a better direction than suggesting things to continue as they are.
Suggesting a replacement system is infinitely more palatable to me than another Reign of Terror followed by (presumably) the same mistakes. Revolutionary defense is fine, but we don't need bloody revenge.
Why advocate for structural changes when we can meme fedpost about a violent solution?
Redistributing the wealth of billionaires is already part of a good structural change, it'll remove from them power they'd use to continue the exploitation of the people. You can substitute "crush" by destitute and incarcerate them if you'd prefer, as long as the wealth isn't on the hands of the few anymore.