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Damn, he got some good fireworks for 50 bucks if they could vaporise a human body. Good work, Chuck. You will be missed.

History already taught that's not how it works, someone or bunch of people need to make it happen for real, the alternative is natural disasters , old age and sickness or accidents.

Well, that’s why they were so cheap. And they may have been stolen dynamite, but the police aren’t investigating.

It's not impossible. There's wealth taxes, there's guillotines.

the mechanics is exactly the concern that large parts of the middle class andpeople interested in crypto have with wealth taxes, how will the system handle cases where there is no market for an asset but it would typically have value (think memecoins that can be produced by the billions over an hour) or items that the owner has no knowledge of the value but have a high value non the less.

Several addresses, even. And I believe you can track their private jets.

This made me laugh so hard thank you. It reminds me of when I was a kid, I thought 200 came right after 100. Then 300, 400, and so on.

I'm a bit existentially confused by the anticapitalist webcomic being hosted on Shopify.

And in the grand scheme of things, there actually aren't that many of them.

The family member part is addressed in the comic

Isn't this the plot of a Kingsman movie?

What happens if the trust always designates a single next-in-line somehow? Does it just instantly kill everyone on earth?

Yeah, was not expecting to be bricked up so much today. You can't just post stuff like that anywhere.

Now I'm going to be thinking about this all day.

Cmon, we want to watch the worst of them panic.

We're too poor to understand astonomical wealth figures :(

Love the shoutout to Sam Sweetmilk (Starship Goldfish).

"Teachers were finally paid closer to their worth."

I dunno, I just think the phrasing "closer to their worth" is really funny when the picture being painted is a hopeful one. We can't actually hope that teachers will get a decent pay, even in a better world.

Maybe wealth was all the money we made along the way

Kinda the point I think. It's not a completely Utopian fantasy, and plenty of the capitalistic (etc) problems that already existed would still be here.

bricked up

Come again?

I wouldnt tell anyone i got superpowers but there woild be signs

I think it means they need to eat more fiber

I love that even in this made up fantasy world (which is awesome btw), we're still only able to pay teachers "Close" to what they're worth.

Like, lol. Teachers are so fucked from a livable wage standpoint, that it would take 2 made up billionaire apocalypses to give them enough money to be paid what they're actually worth.

too fucking bad

I see the appeal

One of the last bright spots over on Reddit is that they are still tracking his jet every day.

Its not even a day of COVID-19

https://www.viruscomix.com/page433.html

Additional/further reading from Winston Rowntree

Oh, HIGH-FIVE on that! Subnormality is in a brilliant, unique class of its own, and I need to figure out how to post more of them on our comics subs. Which, actually... oh! Oh, oh, oh.

Okay, there's a technique I've been using for some time now at my own community that I think will work nicely. Oh my...

Always good to see another fan of their work

Recently re-read Shirley Estar Goes To Heaven (In both forms, even if the original comic was VERY early 00's edgy, it was still a DAMN good comic, and the novel rewrite is 10/10 scifi)

Recently re-read Shirley Estar Goes To Heaven (In both forms, even if the original comic was VERY early 00’s edgy, it was still a DAMN good comic, and the novel rewrite is 10/10 scifi)

Hang on, hang on, that's also by Rowntree?

TBH, I only check in with Subnormality every couple months, altho I've been reading for... shoot, it must ~20yrs now. oO

There is a particular sort of pessimism that liberals always surprise me with. Something actually magical happens in this scenario, and the best they can imagine is what we currently have, just with some incentive to not get famously rich. No wonder so many of them resort to doomerism, they think it'd take two actual miracles for people to even question a system that produces millionaires.

For anyone who sees this and gets upset because they liked the comic, is this really what you think humans are capable of? Just this?

ah, I see you survived the latest strike.

XD

sure, bicycle, bisect, bivalve, bi means two.

right?

You do not have to exist outside of a system to critique it.

Not sure what that's meant to refer to tbh. People are supposed to get banned for this?

Edit: Oh, I'm supposed to be a Russian bot for criticizing liberalism (the system that smashes babies to create billionaires), and then saying that humanity is capable of more than this. Yeah dude, totally, of the two of us, I'm the most bot-like.

What liberals imagine instead of helping anyone.

Ah no, that was more about a recent, infamous bot-strike plantation.

You know... your colleagues. 😀

That's... addressing the issues that allow billionaires to exist.

Right, obnoxious as always. Have fun waiting for the miracle that you don't even want to fix things.

Please don't be an idiot?

Not unlike Alice in Wonderland, it was always just a pipe-dream, mah dude...

Will do!

(cmon, I'm exaggerating, but well it is REALLY good news)

The solution is an income and wealth tax tied to minimum wage. I also like a maximum wage (100% tax beyond) and a maximum wealth (ditto) including unrealized gains both tied also to minimum wage.

One of the purposes of science fiction and fantasy is to allow us to imagine a different world, without necessarily knowing how get there from here. In this case, we're imagining a post-billionaire world without worrying about how to get there from here.

If that world seems better than the one we have now, we could decide to put a long, difficult plan in place to get to that world.

Also, people are underestimating how much damage is being done by people who are merely centi-millionares and deci-millionaires. Yes, they have a lot less money. But, there are a lot more of them.

There are no silver bullets, only lead bullets.

On the pursuit of absurd amounts of wealth. Sure. But, $200m is still an absurd amount of wealth, and wouldn't be affected in this scenario.

Also, if there were no billionaires, someone worth $990m would be the most powerful person around. Right now if someone's worth say $800m they're motivated to get to $1b or more. But, they know that if they get there they'll still have nowhere near the power of Bezos or Musk.

With a hard limit of $1b, centi-millionaires might be even more motivated to hit $990m because there would be nobody more powerful or wealthy than them.

The wild thing is you could probably live off only 1 million invested at say 3 percent, a whole life.

Billions? That should be just unlawful.