• nonentity@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

    Conversely, a mature society would assassinate the poor by ensuring the provision of subsistence is readily available to anyone who needs it, and not gated behind employment.

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Used to be called starting a war. It’s working for Russia but you really need to have a draft/conscription to make it succeed. The wealthy pay a doctor to say they have bone spurs and the poor go die somewhere else. As a plus some wealthy benefit from an overheated military industrial complex

    But there are side effects, such as generating more poverty by killing off the main income in families

    • morphballganon@mtgzone.comEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Starting a war only kills certain demographics, namely young poor people, as well as anyone who lives in a place that gets bombed.

      Police handle other demographics.

    • isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      1 month ago

      That worked well enough back in ye olden days, but you don’t see it much in the modern world. Winning a war isn’t just about having enough people on the front line. It’s about what kinds and what quantities of weapons and equipment you can get to people that matters. A tiny country with a small population and an advanced industrial economy will wipe the floor with a country with an army of peasant conscripts 10x as large. Keeping the people in uniform equipped and fed is even more important than actually finding people to put into a uniform.

      This matters because every person you send to the front line is another that can’t be on the home front working at a munitions plant, or working on a farm, or driving a train to transport war supplies, etc.

      Unless your economy already has structural mass unemployment, there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Every draftee you throw away into the meat grinder is one more that can’t be supporting the war from the home front.

  • Wander@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    England had a war on murders and killed them all.

    That is thought to have massively reduced the number of murders for subsequent generations.

  • GhostFace@lemmy.today
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    1 month ago

    That has to be a bot post, right?

    Who could actually be inhumane enough to just put that thought out there?

    • mastod0n@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      I mean why would people for far right narratives?

      Because it’s an easy answer with a appearently reasonable thought process.

      The same reason why people online argued Marvel’s Thanos had a point

    • hansolo@lemmy.today
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      1 month ago

      There’s a miniscule chance it’s intentional irony based on Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal, in which Swift proposes easing babies to solve the Irish famine.

      Buy probably just a dickbag.