Think Small: End Billionaires

There are only 3,000 of them. A thought experiment.

Thought experiment. There are 8,000,000,000 human beings in the world. About 3,000 of them are billionaires — what if we got rid of them?

OK, I know it’s not that easy, but just for giggles... The total net worth of all billionaires globally is conservatively $16,000,000,000,000 — $16 trillion. That’s $2,000 per person on the planet. I bet a family in Sudan would appreciate that money.

In the US, if you liquidated, financially speaking of course, the 750-ish billionaires — who are worth about $7,000,000,000,000 collectively — and divvied up the proceeds among every American citizen, 350,000,000 of us, we’d all get a $20,000 check. Sounds pretty good, right? And, really, how hard would that be? The billionaires would all fit in a decent-sized motel. If we really committed, what are they gonna do about it?

Now, that’s just the financial benefits. Consider that billionaires and psychopathy are committed partners in distorting the capitalist system, usually co-morbid with messianic narcissism. Other than a few people who have been rewarded lavishly for their creativity and may be excused for collecting the money that people throw at them (looking at the worried Swifties), billionaires are nearly all grotesquely anti-human. The reason is easy to understand.

If you have a billion dollars and all you can think about is making more money at the expense of other people, something is wrong with you. A billion dollars is enough to live in palaces for the rest of your life — and make all your kids rich forever. Yet you persist.

If you have ten billion dollars and more money is still your goal, you are deeply sick. You can change the world with that money and you’re not doing it. You are a misanthropist.

If you have a hundred billion dollars and you will still not stop collecting more, while rolling over great swaths of humanity in the process, by definition, you are evil incarnate.

Where are the billionaires who haven’t flopped over for the Fourth Reich or remained painfully silent while our rights, labor and resources are stolen? Thiel, Musk, Sacks, Koch, Mercer, Murdoch, Zuckerberg, Ellison, Crow… Now Bezos, Cook, Soon-Shiong, et al… I could go on forever, but they all chose not to use their privilege to do the right thing. They’re all selling the poors down the river because they don’t give a shit about anyone but themselves. It is the nature of the billionaire, I’m afraid.

It’s not a coincidence that these are the same people who enslaved our citizens in digital prisons through constant bombardment of psychological warfare and propaganda. These are the vipers who have built great cathedrals of lies and disinformation, all to keep Americans trapped in suicidal alternate realities that deceive and impoverish them. Why are we allowing it?

So, it’s a simple question. What good do these people — this very, very, very small minority of people — do for the rest of us? And why do we keep them around when they are so manifestly bad for us?

I’m not suggesting anything drastic, by the way. We should let them each keep one billion dollars, and give them a nice thank you card for their sacrifice in making the world a better place, but more than a thousand million dollars is not necessary — for any human being on Earth. Ever.

So is this a communist plot? Am I suggesting the dreaded “wealth distribution”?

No and yes, respectively. Communism is a failed experiment that ends up killing millions. But unchecked capitalism is a way to guarantee fascism, genocide, and dictatorship, as we’re seeing in real-time.

So, 8 billion of us vs. 3 thousand of them… Think we could take ‘em?

I know it seems impossible, but so was the federal government being taken over by a tiny cabal of Nazi billionaires who sold the rest of the world to Vladimir Putin so they could enslave 350 million Americans.

The greatest hoax of all is making themselves seem much more powerful then they really are — untouchable, too big to fail. But in reality, they are the Grand Wizards of Oz. We should pull their hoods off and send them back down the Yellow Brick Road to ignominy once and for all.

Long Live a Free America. And a Free World.

Smash the oligarchy. Slava Ukraini.

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