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8 billion people vs. 3000 billionaires: Who would win?

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  • U [email protected]

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    If organized, the billionaires lose. It's really that simple and that difficult.

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      The billionaires spend a small fraction to some idiots to betray their fellow non-billionaires. It's probably about a million people versus the masses.

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        If organized, the billionaires lose. It's really that simple and that difficult.

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        Okay, then go start organizing?

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        • zachariah@lemmy.worldZ [email protected]

          That’s because—for many reasons—there are way too many non-billionaires on team billionaire.

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          They think they're on team billionaire but are willful idiots.

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          • underpantsweevil@lemmy.worldU [email protected]

            If we decide money no longer matters it’d be petty easy to eliminate them all

            Okay, but then where will I get my passive income? I worked 40 years in the shit and rusty needles mine to build up a big enough nest egg to get passive income. Now I'm too full of staff infections and lacerated limbs and shit lung to work anymore.

            I can't afford not to make the next guy work himself to death in the shit rust needle mine.

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            No one needs to work in a shit rust needle mine. Without money you would have community helping & taking care of you based on your needs & listening to your ideas. You would take as much as you need but as little as you can to live happily & work to contribute back.

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            • ekzepp@lemmy.worldE [email protected]

              Why you think they're tossing so much money to develope ai and humanoid robots?

              When shit will hit the fan they want their own private army to watch their ass, but at the same time they don't want highly trained human mercenary inside their golden castel getting strange ideas.

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              Omg you are right on this. They see most of as disposable once they're able to consistently get away with it.

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              • R [email protected]

                The billionaires are already winning, with no signs of that changing.

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                With pessimism like that, we won't get far.

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                • zachariah@lemmy.worldZ [email protected]

                  That’s because—for many reasons—there are way too many non-billionaires on team billionaire.

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                  I worked with a guy that proudly proclaimed that he voted for the right because they looked after the rich.

                  He was not rich, but he purchased lottery tickets weekly and stated he'd rather get screwed while poor than pay more tax if he, some day, became rich.

                  And that was the day I realised that we're fucked.

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                    Billionaires only have power because people do things for them in exchange for money

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                    • drdystopia@lemy.lolD [email protected]

                      3000 multibillionaires and the trillionaires would win.

                      Elaborate and explain

                      I am not an LLM AI.

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                      It is getting ridiculous how the kids aren't satisfied with just an answer, they want us to guess what their questions may be and pre-emptively explain all of it.

                      They put zero effort into forming questions, and just expect everyone to give indepth answers they're not gonna read anyways.

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                        This is happening right now and the billionaires are winning.

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                          The billionaires. People dumb AF. Billionaires have money to manipulate people to think they are doing good while they are fucking humanity.

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                          • skarabrae@lemmy.worldS [email protected]

                            I worked with a guy that proudly proclaimed that he voted for the right because they looked after the rich.

                            He was not rich, but he purchased lottery tickets weekly and stated he'd rather get screwed while poor than pay more tax if he, some day, became rich.

                            And that was the day I realised that we're fucked.

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                            Ah, see, what you should have done was.....stabbed him in the eye.

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                            • timewarp@lemmy.worldT [email protected]

                              Omg you are right on this. They see most of as disposable once they're able to consistently get away with it.

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                              Which is now. They just need something safe to keep "that" up in the eventuality that civilization/economy collapse.

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                              • zachariah@lemmy.worldZ [email protected]

                                That’s because—for many reasons—there are way too many non-billionaires on team billionaire.

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                                Hey, don't look at me. I'm on team "unexpected astroid hitting the earth to end it all".

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                                  Elaborate and explain

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                                  Their divide and conquer strategy is busting our asses.

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                                  • B [email protected]

                                    Okay, then go start organizing?

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                                    Don't tell me what to do!

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                                    • J [email protected]

                                      If we decide money no longer matters it'd be petty easy to eliminate them all. If we continue to let money run our lives then it'll continue to be pretty easy for the people with money to keep all their power.

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                                      I mean... money does matter. It matters to the individual because it is how they pay their bills, and it matters to all of humanity because it is how we are able to take coordinated action despite the lack of any central organizer.

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                                        and at least 300 million think there are simply temporarily embarrassed billionaires

                                        Technically that should drop down to ~150 million

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                                        No, no, you don't understand. See, the thing is, America Bad.

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                                        • drdystopia@lemy.lolD [email protected]

                                          3000 multibillionaires and the trillionaires would win.

                                          Elaborate and explain

                                          I am not an LLM AI.

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                                          The problem with your comment is that it is boring. It provides no insight, proposes no causitive mechanisms. Of course, we could follow up and ask you "why?", in order to understand your reasoning, and therefore have an interesting discussion. And in fact, we are so certain that what we actually care about is the reasoning behind the answer, that we may as well ask why in advance.

                                          Almost as if we would like you to... hmm... there are two words...

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