https://piipitin.fi/@prettyhuman/111646353467589880

They forgot to seal the vents and doors with cement.

Okay but have we tried this? Can we? Please?

Get back in your hole. Are you too good for your hole?

I still think it's preferable to eat them.

New elites would just take their place

That's.... not how capitalism works 😐

Can't we just kill them instead? That would solve the whole getting out issue, AND they've already built cute little tombs to use as well

Sounds a bit like The Defenders (Phillip K. Dick)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Defenders_(short_story)

But isn't it a beautiful dream?

I love the idea, but the billionaires know they're on a timer with regard to staff loyalty and will actively be monitoring the outside world to get out as quickly as possible. In a completely unrelated matter, I think we might have some good spots for building giant concrete structures to contain future radioactive waste...

The trick is to brick up their bunkers from the outside once they've taken themselves inside.

Do you want to expand on that statement?

As a commenter in a different post put it: Remember when Brian Thompson was killed and UnitedHealthcare suddenly dissolved?

There will always be people who are the smartest and/or shrewdest and/or most ambitious and/or luckiest, in a population. "Just get rid of the people who currently have the most wealth" is extraordinarily naive.

I dunno, they probably would taste like shit. Are you familiar with composting?

Because only one wealthy guy got killed not all of them. The meme also doesn't work when it's only Elon Musk going into the bunker.

What’s with the push lately that I’ve seen to pretend that United and other healthcare CEOs weren’t shitting bricks and hiring personal security for months after he was killed?

Structural solutions are important!

I'm okay with testing that one. Let's lock Elon Musk in a bunker for 10 years. You know for science

That would be what we do with the bones when we're done sucking out the marrow.

There's kind of a difference between "whoever happens to be wealthiest at the moment" and "The 0.001% of the population that is three times wealthier than the bottom 50% of humanity combined."

Massive understatement—they're actually the only things that could truly be "solutions" at all in anything approaching long-term.

Over the long term, there really isn't. Outside of a government imposing tyranny-tier control over everyone's wealth, wealth inequality happens naturally, and inevitably, and the gap widens similarly.

What's more important is making sure that even the poorest among us can have a decent standard of living. After all, if you waved a magic wand and now everyone in the US, for example, was earning $75,000 a year minimum, no one would be in poverty, right? And yet the size of the 'wealth gap' between the wealthiest and the $75k 'minimum earners' would effectively be identical; the gap between $0 and billions is basically the same as the gap between $75k and billions.

Toppling the wealthiest just because they're the wealthiest isn't going to solve any of the actual problems (especially when politicians get bribed for relatively-measly five figure sums, etc.).

Yeah that's what they said, peat them

Considering the housing crises in many places, maybe it would be better to just leave their bodies in the forest

They will also be told the world is about to end

They didn't say CEOs weren't scared

"billionairs"

And cut the power so the sump pumps fail. Block up the air vents. They will get sent off like the pharaohs.

Right, they’re just using the idea that a single killing didn’t immediately result in the collapse of the for-profit healthcare system to imply that resistance (violent and nonviolent) is futile.

Ok. But what if we keep doing it? It's good for the environment, and it's a great source of steady employment opportunities.

Except that the only way you get everyone a baseline income of $75k is by taking it from the billionaires, thus reducing the gap much more substantially

Fallout S1 reveals what would really happen.

Well yeah, of course. More relevantly, I even heard their insurance approval rate shifted positive... For a few months anyway. But If it's not back down already I assume it will be eventually. The profit pressure is still there.

Have you guys seen Back to the Future?

No, but I do remember when Brian Thompson was killed and UnitedHealthcare started granting a bunch of claims to the point that shareholders sued them over it, at least until the heat died down. In that time, countless lives were saved.

Outside of a government imposing tyranny-tier control over everyone’s wealth, wealth inequality happens naturally, and inevitably, and the gap widens similarly.

Hmm, this tyranny idea sounds pretty interesting then.

Feed them to pigs, then make bacon

Ah, the ol' "Cask of Amontillado" trick.

It's spelled "catastrophe" and if you think somehow sustaining 8+ billion people is going to be any different with or without billionaires, you have a child's grasp of how the world works.

Because you are now assuming everyone's just going to become a cyclist vegan living in densified 300 sq ft condos doing their communal laundry every two weeks with recycled bath water.

You see that happening?

As much as I like the idea of locking billionaires away; the system that created them would still remain, their companies would still exist and there would still be plenty of unfeeling psychopaths with nothing but greed in their hearts.

Before we build I have some notes based on the failure mode the tweet exposes.

1. Why would the vault door be built in such a way that it can be reopened? Seems like over-engineering to me
2. This thing doesn’t need to be sustainable for 10 years, it just needs to look like it will be. 10 days is more than enough for our purposes I should think

What would really happen

Other greedy fucks and power hungry people would replace them. We need a sustainable way to stop this being possible, banishing the rich by itself wont do shit.

could we have one thread where we don't talk about President Tannen please

Because you are now assuming everyone’s just going to become a cyclist vegan living in densified 300 sq ft condos doing their communal laundry every two weeks with recycled bath water.

Except simply requiring remote work to be an option for all jobs where its feasible will significantly reduce pollution as we all observed in Q2 of 2020

No, you're inferring that while trying to lump them with an unrelated group of people.

Also limiting fossil fuel use for energy and shipping overall.

Sorry.

Don't let the best be the enemy of good. Lets start with the villains we know. I can kill/imprison the rest later.