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Half of all renters in the US make major, long-lasting sacrifices to afford housing. A basic failing of US capitalism. Many millions suffer so a small minority - landlords - profit. The system is the (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by jimmydoreisalefty to c/[email protected]

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Half of all renters in the US make major, long-lasting sacrifices to afford housing. A basic failing of US capitalism. Many millions suffer so a small minority - landlords - profit. The system is the problem.

Source: https://twitter.com/profwolff/status/1776718498519003278

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

2 wrongs.

Tax em to hell and back

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Paint a spot of nail polish on the back of captured mice before you release them. When you realize you keep capturing the same one, time and again, you'll understand the inherent flaw in live-capture mouse traps.

We The People are empowered to establish a law making it a criminal offense to hold more than 100,000 times as much wealth as the bottom 1%. We The People are empowered to make violation of this new criminal statute a capital offense, enforceable by guillotine.

You want to be a billionaire, you better make sure the bottom 1% has a net worth of at least $10,000.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lol, this is exactly it. If you start writing capital offenses it won't end with billionaires. It will spiral out until "undesirables" of many sorts are dying too.

Violence is not a political tool. That's tankie shit. Authoritarians always come in proclaiming to "get rid of" the group of people you wish would be gone, but they never stop there.

In your example, if society has determined that someone has far too much wealth, they should just be taxed such that they are no longer in violation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Violence has always been a political tool, but there will be no violence. They won't even be incarcerated. They will voluntarily relinquish their excess wealth long before they ever see a guillotine.

Leave it as a civil offense to attain and retain that much wealth: you give them a billion reasons to fight, and zero reason not to. Making it a capital offense gives them just one tiny reason to stop and think about what they are doing. One small, tangible consequence of their actions.

Authoritarians

Authoritarians only understand authority, and billionaires believe themselves to be the ultimate authorities. Imposing the authority of We The People against them is the only way to to disabuse them of that notion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That we the people stuff makes you sound like a sovcit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Sovcits say "I the person" not "We The People".