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      22 hours ago

      In reality when that happens, the other monkeys beat the hoarding monkey to death and redistribute the hoarded food. (by redistrubute i mean have a feas and no more hoarding asshole)

      If only we could really get back to our roots and be more natural

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        21 hours ago

        Part of the problem is all the fucking morons saying that the world economy isn’t a zero-sum proposition. If the economy isn’t zero-sum then we can just give everyone a billion dollars on paper and they could just buy their own houses. Inflation, what is that?

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          20 hours ago

          Do you have any concept of how many average houses a billion dollars could buy you?

          Assuming a house is $400,000 to be generous to your angle, it is ~2,500 if we ignore taxes and fees. Elon musks “wealth” could buy just about 320,000,000 nice family homes in most US states.

          Thats a house for nearly every person in the US if we liquidated just his hoard. The next 20 billionaires have at least $100B according to the live Forbes list. There are >3,000 more of these parasites.

          And these fuckers are hoarding houses too. Not to mention throwing away food and medicine in the name of profit.

          The bootlicking is pathetic.

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            20 hours ago

            Have you misread my comment so much that you think I am in favor of billionaires? I absolutely know how much good could come from taxing billionaires on their wealth rather than their “income”. I understand that the world economy isn’t zero-sum and that every billionaire is a parasite that sickens society as a whole. Please re-read my comment and see that I am not a bootlicker.

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              1 hour ago

              Yes, i struggle with syntax sometimes. My comment previously said “your” bootlicking. I changed it in case i misread your comment; though i felt the statement important enough to leave for any would be bootlickers.

              Edit: i said liquidate, not tax.