That’s actually all… I’ll leave it up to you to speculate on the cure…
Cure it with Cobra.
Not sure if there are folks old enough to get the reference.
It’s hoarding. They’re hoarders
Lead therapy.
Gravity therapy is also effective
But not if you have $999,999,999
Buzzwords are for idiots.
I believe that becoming a billionaire is often the result of an OCD condition related to hoarding. If someone was that strongly compelled to hoard an equivalent amount of cats, rusty cars, broken appliances, etc., we would step in and stop it, because it would start to be a danger to the health of the public.
Yet if their OCD Hoarding manifests as financial, we laud them as economic heroes, and governments actually GIVE them more money.
Their hoards should be confiscated, and they should have to take medication to reduce their dangerous compulsions.
There is only so much personal agency a person can possess, before it becomes public insurgency.
If there is an overhaul, I think the focus should be on a revised economic system, where there are fixed incomes based on job type or status, alongside absolute caps on how much wealth can be held. Anything beyond the cap is 100% taxed.
UBI is used to guarantee shelter, utilities, transport, healthcare, and generic items. Money is used for buying fancy stuff, such as sheets with patterns or colors, bigger housing, and so forth. Fixed incomes start at $10,000 a year for citizens, students get a range of income based on grades that range from $10,000 to $20,000, while basic jobs like waiters get $40k a year. Astronauts get $100k, the absolute cap for annual income. Leaders get their position and pay rank voted by the workers of the company.
This is the solution, but to help wean them off their addiction, maybe we could send them all to addiction rehab facilities, just to give them an out so we don’t have to get violent. They are addicts and compassion is the best way out of this mess. Fight fire with water
I won’t lie, and I’m sure some would have some criticisms, but that sounds like a good enough cure to me.
The only cure is the Billionaire Attitude Readjustment Tool, the one invented in France.
Taking the BART?
More along the terms of a guillotine…
I modified an acronym found in a set of humorous IT stories following a rather crotchety system admin, where the users who upset him the most by being “Problems existing in between chair and keyboard” as “LUsers”. He has a special tool that he uses to readjust the attitudes of LUsers, simply called the LART. It’s painful.
There is definetely psychological affects of holding a million or more dollars for long amounts of time.
I’m feeling a miniature version of this. For the first time in years I have $5,000 in my bank account and nothing I need to buy at the moment, but I’m still frozen because I know I can’t spend it because I know I will eventually need it for something. Imagine feeling this on a billionaire scale. They just keep accruing more & more & they never give it to anyone who desperately needs it because they are hoarding it for some future selfish unknown purpose.
I thought globally we could institute Highlander rules for billionaires. Legal to kill each other and the winner gets to keep all the money of the losers. There can be only one! And then, you know, there will only be one of them and that might just sort itself out.
Hunger games but for billionaires. My bets go on John Uroboros
Don’t forget the millionaires too. They’re aspiring billionaires.
The difference between a million and a billion is a billion, with a small margin of error.
Getting to $10 million is basically just the classic “American Dream”. Even $50-millionaires aren’t doing damage to society and the political system like billionaires do.
Quarter-billionaire is where you start getting sus IMO.
Not entirely agreed about millionaires. Some places, just owning a house for forty years makes you a multimillionaire. Like, one of my adopted grandmothers, Trin? She had a place out in San Francisco she rented out for $100/month. Could have rented it for twenty times that but she already had enough moneys. Also, she wanted to stick it to her nephews and nieces who got a piece of the rent and were jerks to her over money, who wanted her to sell the place for like ten million (what it was worth). She bought the place in something like 1910 for a song. I wonder who owns the place now, she passed like 20 years ago.
It shouldn’t be possible. Full stop.
Billionaires are a scourge on everything good in this world.
There should be a cap on how much wealth a person or corporation* is legally allowed to possess. Once their net worth hits $999,999,999.99, it triggers a plug at the bottom of their bank account to open, forever draining** every penny that attempts to exceed that maximum amount.
*Corporations included because they seem to claim all the rights of personhood
**and TRULY trickling down to people who actually earn & deserve & need it
It doesn’t need to trickle down at all. If the money simply ceases to exist, what little we have becomes much more valuable.
Burn it all down.
I’d love to see it someday.
100% and I’m glad to see this take is getting some traction.
Too horny? nymphomania
Too hungry? Obesity
Too sleepy? Narcolepsy
Too greedy?
Kleptomania.
The highest grossing form of theft in the US is wage theft
They are by definition a literal parasite.
Greed is one of the seven mortal sins for a reason and you don’t have to be a religious person to see and experience that
