https://thisecommercelife.com/blogs/comics/the-day-all-billionaires-died
I’m sure it’s annoying for some to click offsite, but it’s 20 panels long. IMO worth the read, though!
My friends always say “You can’t just kill them. There will be someone to take their place.” The obvious response is kill them too. Eventually, people will stop being so eager to take their place!
Though as the comic says, there’s always going to be assholes. Limiting how much power they have would be great.
I am currently running a game of Vampire predicated on “what if you all just… took out the ultra rich?”. It has been satisfying.
They’re right, though. It’s easy to say “make people not want to be billionaires” but outside this comic, it’s impossible. We need to address the issues that allow billionaires to exist and pass on their fortunes tax-free.
If I received a million dollars, everyone I care about would live a long, happy and healthy life. Elon Musk spent almost $300 million dollars just on the current US midterms to elect Republicans and enact legislation that will give him control over you and keep you poor and desperate…
It’s not impossible. There’s wealth taxes, there’s guillotines.
That’s… addressing the issues that allow billionaires to exist.
If you systematically kill billionaires then it is a systemic solution.
The solution is an income and wealth tax tied to minimum wage. I also like a maximum wage (100% tax beyond) and a maximum wealth (ditto) including unrealized gains both tied also to minimum wage.
That can be part of a solution. You also need to plug up holes like “it’s not a wage - i just got a personal loan using my company stock as collateral”.
Oh, absolutely. Unrealized gains would include company stock and I’m not sure banks will be giving big loans on limited stock.
I have other ideas like corporations not being able to own Intellectual property (or severely restricted terms for such ownership), Abolishing political parties, abolishing organized religion, maximum corporation size (revenue and employee count) etc.
Take power and abolish them.
It’s your duty as a human to kill billionaires on sight. With whole groups of people killing them no one can be guilty.
The world prospers.
This is an attainable future, they say where there’s a will there’s a way
I believe in wytchcraft!
Prosciption for anyone with a net worth over a billion dollars. It becomes an affirmative defense in a murder trial that the victim had wealth beyond the legal maximum. This avoids the issue of government enforcement. You don’t have to try and track down every criminal billionaire squirreling their wealth away in hidden accounts. It just becomes legal to kill anyone with a net worth over a certain amount. The government doesn’t have to track down and arrest billionaires. They have to worry about their own children killing them, inheriting their money, and just donating anything over the legal threshold.
“one day, like a miracle…” No, you need to make change happen the hard way.
One of the purposes of science fiction and fantasy is to allow us to imagine a different world, without necessarily knowing how get there from here. In this case, we’re imagining a post-billionaire world without worrying about how to get there from here.
If that world seems better than the one we have now, we could decide to put a long, difficult plan in place to get to that world.
There are no silver bullets, only lead bullets.
I need a “+” after billionaires. Can’t let Elon escape on a technicality.
If it follows set theory, then all trillionaires are billionaires. Math got your back!
Idk what messed up religion y’all are trying to come up with now but we need to lock in and strike these mfers out of the country.
That’s a good start
I wouldnt tell anyone i got superpowers but there woild be signs
“Teachers were finally paid closer to their worth.”
I dunno, I just think the phrasing “closer to their worth” is really funny when the picture being painted is a hopeful one. We can’t actually hope that teachers will get a decent pay, even in a better world.
Kinda the point I think. It’s not a completely Utopian fantasy, and plenty of the capitalistic (etc) problems that already existed would still be here.
I’m a bit existentially confused by the anticapitalist webcomic being hosted on Shopify.
I’d prefer to stretch it out a bit: One every hour, starting with the “poorest” of them, climbing up the list every time.
Make the ones on top know that it will be their turn eventually. They cannot avoid it. They cannot cheat it.
They can donate everything they own to charities or whatever they want, and some will certainly try. But it’s too late - The culling cannot be stopped.
Go the other way. Start at the top and go down to the global mean.
Cmon, we want to watch the worst of them panic.
I see the appeal
I love that even in this made up fantasy world (which is awesome btw), we’re still only able to pay teachers “Close” to what they’re worth.
Like, lol. Teachers are so fucked from a livable wage standpoint, that it would take 2 made up billionaire apocalypses to give them enough money to be paid what they’re actually worth.
Instead of randomly exploding them, can we like shoot them into space?
Space billionaires.
Oh, mi bang fo sound to sound …
Pension funds would continue to invest in civil wars and making the planet uninhabitable. JK Rowling would continue spending 90% of her revenue on genociding trans people. Legal entities would continue to fund fascist politicians in order to avoid taxation.
This comic has a deeply naive view of capitalism. It weasels a bit about things nog becoming “perfect”, but it’s still fundamentally a story about how if we kill the right scapegoats the system itself will be cleansed.
Financial obesity is neurotoxic, 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 trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
This is an excellent form of taxation.
I always imagine the scene from Kingsmen.
