Well sure, in optimism land, why not go for them all. In the real world, that wouldn’t be possible given the amount of insulation they have and protection they can afford.
My meaning here is that if the choice were presented between guillotining one of them that donates money occasionally, and another that doesn’t so much as pretend to give a damn, I’m going to point at the latter.
From a quick search, there are around 3,000 billionaires with over ten trillion US dollars combined. Even if we assume the poorest of them only have a handful of security personnel, a socialist revolution in terms of pitchforks and guillotines wouldn’t get far up the ladder.
These individuals have politicians strung up as marionettes, so the world’s militaries aren’t going to help. Surely if more than two of these billionaires end up Thompson’d, the military would probably be used to protect them.
The revolution that could work is pretty straightforward, but it has a barrier to entry. People need to vote. Not just for the top either, but all the way down to city councillors. We’d need to see landslide elections to overcome gerrymandering, but if we managed to elect a significant number of incorruptible politicians all at once, mountains could be moved in one cycle.
Well sure, in optimism land, why not go for them all. In the real world, that wouldn’t be possible given the amount of insulation they have and protection they can afford.
My meaning here is that if the choice were presented between guillotining one of them that donates money occasionally, and another that doesn’t so much as pretend to give a damn, I’m going to point at the latter.
They won’t have insulation and protection if we do a socialist revolution…
From a quick search, there are around 3,000 billionaires with over ten trillion US dollars combined. Even if we assume the poorest of them only have a handful of security personnel, a socialist revolution in terms of pitchforks and guillotines wouldn’t get far up the ladder.
These individuals have politicians strung up as marionettes, so the world’s militaries aren’t going to help. Surely if more than two of these billionaires end up Thompson’d, the military would probably be used to protect them.
The revolution that could work is pretty straightforward, but it has a barrier to entry. People need to vote. Not just for the top either, but all the way down to city councillors. We’d need to see landslide elections to overcome gerrymandering, but if we managed to elect a significant number of incorruptible politicians all at once, mountains could be moved in one cycle.
Oh to dream.