I bet those billionaires could make the system more efficient if they were properly motivated.

They would already know the trick, since they would likely be the ones who came up with it.

Whatever revolution you do just institutes a new elite instead of the old one

If you know the TV series "Billionaires' Bunker", why not take inspiration from that? Rip them off buildinga fake nuclear shelter, create a fake narative and lock them up for good.

Everybody who shows any hunger for power goes to the bunker.

It is probably harder to trick the next thousand richest people to go to their bunkers

I was hoping for something like:

"You were", she answered without hesitation.

Also, why would she be afraid of them? Without the system of power that upheld them, they are about as dangerous as the average human. Possibly less.

If anything, they're the ones who should be afraid. Especially the ones on the Epstein list.

That's way too on-the-nose.

And she could just be screaming to get people's attention to an outbreak of vermin. People scream when they see a mouse in their house, and mice haven't even ruined the world in centuries.

How about changing taxes so that it's impossible for individuals to have more wealth than entire nations?

Block up the air vents

Why waste a perfectly good latrine?

As a species, we need to find a way to manage power, so that it isn't handed to the greediest, most dishonest, most evil and irresponsible people. If we are to survive as a species, we have to do better. It's not that we're fundamentally incapable of solving the problem. But the people currently in power will fight tooth and nail against any attempt to find or implement such a solution, since that will mean the loss of the power and privilege that they value above all else.
The point of the fantasy scenario described is that without the ultra rich running interference, we'd have a better chance to improve the world. It's still a tough problem and requires large scale societal change such that business as usual doesn't continue as you described. Better education to make the public more aware, coupled with a few key changes to how governments work could give us a fighting chance though.

We can do both.

Nahhh fam we gonna pour concrete down their lil air holes hihi

Cool so we will remove the impediments of those structural changes (or rather the heads of those impediments) first and then we can have structural change :)

Billionaires are the result of Capitalism, change the system, no more parasitic billionaires. Also chop off their heads.

So who runs shit in utopia?

Come to think of it, this is a wonderful idea...no assassinations needed.

Me, of course ^_^

The solution: become the mole people, and live in a small lynchocraty until the surface people drive themselves extinct.

A bunch of nerds who only cared about perfection.

That way the idea can't be corrupted cause a nerd's obsession is more powerful than anything.

That's why I gave up hope. I realized even if they got overthrown, and there was a power change, there would be just a surface-level change, with all the corrupt and sick shit, still happening underneath a democracy-flavored world.

I would legit be happy if they spent 10 years eating rations in a concrete tomb.

They should be launched into the sun, so that we don't recycle the evil.

New ones tend to spawn, as soon as you kill the old mob.

That's basically how the bureaucratic class aka. the states middle management works.

This is why I'm thinking more along the lines of what Posadists were thinking.

This! It's like having an outbreak of a long forgotten disease in this scenario, won't end humanity, but not great either.

But what is perfection?

System version 1.7.586 is coming out tomorrow.

Still better than the bs we are all running now.

Fallout

Also chop off their heads.

That's where you lose. Keep it vague like "eat the rich"

No

Cum

I will provide it

autonomous collective

seriously though, are you saying capitalism is the best humans can ever have?

Until they get out.

He knows what he did!

All right, so that's Plan A.

We don't have to totally change the system. They can keep making billions of dollars, we can just tax 99% of it. Maybe they'll pay their employees more, if they know it's only going to get taxed away anyhow. And if they don't, well just take it from them.

“The Future” by Naomi Alderman goes somewhere along these lines

Sounds like step one in a long process

Dude was a time traveler or something, had to be

Yes please

This is funny because it's true.

we the people

that's why we will block the doors

That's why we should build an aligned ASI and give it all the power

Do the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy version then. Load them all into a ship, tell them we've discovered a habitable planet and we're sending our best and brightest to start a new civilization, and fire them into space.

Pretty sure you could at least get rid of Elon that way.

Anyone but the ones doing it for profit.

I'd be up for a technocratie

You gonna fuck the air holes or something?

This is the incident with the dolphins in Seaworld all over!

Too big of a cost.

Tell them we have a ship, and once they all gather with a big fanfare, roll out the guillotine while fireworks go off.

The death of literacy makes me sad.

Edit: post is riddled with grammatical errors and fucking 'catastrophy' — yet I get downvoted. Read a book, something that actually had an editor — then keep reading more books. You will develop literacy eventually.

Not that it isn't the likely result of said group unexpectedly oozing out of their fuck-off cocoons dotting the wasteland their forebears created, but...

But I'm not into vore.