Ok so how does a cancer kill its host?

It grows until it consumes so many nutrients that the other living cells don’t get enough. The host literally starves even if he eats plentifully.

The same applies for the US: The billionaires are not only hoarding wealth, but by doing so they’re crippling the economy for workers and everybody besides themselves.

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    The (original) Nazis are rightfully considered monsters for killing millions of people in the 20th century. What will any survivors of the incineration of earth consider the billionaires that are killing BILLIONS of us for greed?

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    Luigi knew how to cure this type of cancer. It’s not rocket science but nobody with the means and opportunity is willing to do the right thing for humanity.

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    At this point radical measures are necessary to right the wrongs committed by the rich. Taxes are a good start but not enough.

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    We should start call them hoarders instead. They are just as obsessed and wierd about it.

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    Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

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    Suppose you spend 1.000 dollar a day.

    A millionaire would take roughly 3 years until he spent it all.

    If Jesus were a billionaire and did the same. He wouldn’t finished by today and would need another 700 years.

    The numbers might be not exact but the point still stands: The difference between a millionaire and billionaire is ridiculous huge.

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      There are roughly just under 3000 people on earth with more than a billion dollars.

      They have a combined net worth of over $16 Trillion

      Say the almighty Cthulu/Allah/Zeus decided “yo fuck those assholes” and instantly redistributed that $16 trillion among all 8 billion+ people on earth equally

      Everyone: Every man, woman and child would get just a bit shy of $2000.

      Fun thought experiment

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    1st world culture makes them. Quit supporting that. We only have ourselves to blame. It’s time to own up to that fact.

    You don’t need much of the things they market to you.