Only if the wealth is redistributed to the masses though.
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Yeah exactly. Normal inheritance means their kids or spouse inherit, and the number of billionaires remains the same.
Fun fact, if I were to inherit the wealth of a billionaire family member who was shot in public I’d get philanthropic real fast!
Many people say this. However of those who talk the talk, barely any ever walk the walk.
However I think if you are born an heir to a billionaire, you'd lack the perspective which might foster selfless philanthropy.
I'd like to think that if someone from the working class would randomly get such money they would. But it still seems unlikely.
self preservation isn't a selfless motive, but if it results in philanthropy then that's a win.
Exactly! If billionaires were put in a a position where they need to stop being billionaires and distribute their wealth or else people will kill them, they'd distribute their wealth real fucking fast
My OCD wonders if they factored in having to assassinate the heirs of the CEOs who immediately become billionaires, recursively until every fortune has been divvied up so many ways nobody has a billion anymore. Cuz that would be necessary if you really want to "run out" of billionaires, and would also mean you advocate executing children for inheriting a lot of money. This does require thinking beyond the simple meme, but go ahead - you can do it!
Starting a psyop on 4chan for making edgy school shooter wannabes start aiming at billionaires instead.
"You see anon, it's not that girls don't like you or that your class has 1 non-white person in cornbread America, it's that billionaires are leeches in society, and the cops they own would stop you. Don't fire at classmates, fire at the upper class."
I tried to teach socialism for terminally 4chan people, it's hard, and can be immediately undone by /pol/, some other nazi shit, etc.
I did it once, in person, and all it took was food every day for a few months. We all shared our food at lunch instead of keeping it to ourselves, and we all went away more full than we had before. (the reason is that we all got a larger variety of flavors than before, but that's not the point. The point is communism) Never out had to talk about leftism or politics either, people just sort of came around via eating.
There are 1050 estimated billionaires in the US. In 2024 we've had 38 school shooting related deaths.
So a bit more than 2 months...
He is not talking about school related deaths but about deaths of school children, so everyone who is still a school age.
It specifically says shot. So sure let's expand to include all children shot at school or otherwise.
Can you actually read?
It says school children being shot. Not "die in school schootings". You do realise children get shot outside of school shootings?
I agreed with you. Why are you responding with rudeness?
I haven't actually done the math, but by percentages I think they are probably fairly close.
Its not hard to look up school shooting fatalities, but it would be depressing
Welp that sucked.
69 deaths in 2024 (323 school shootings in 1 year. More school shootings than school days. What are you doing there?)*
And
400+ billionaires the poorest is 3.3B
So 2024 had 1 Billionare death, at this rate, we need 399 more years...
*I forgot to add. Both this source and me are not american. Feel free to correct me with a more local source
More numbers for people to play with. "Since 1999, 440 people have been killed and 1,243 injured in shooting events at K-12 schools."
https://www.security.org/blog/a-timeline-of-school-shootings-since-columbine/