That’s actually all… I’ll leave it up to you to speculate on the cure…

  • Zoldyck@lemmy.world
    33·
    14 days ago

    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

  • garbagebagel@lemmy.world
    281·
    14 days ago

    The french had a good cure for wealth hoarding I think. Temporary though. We’ll need regular immunity shots to make sure it doesn’t spread again.

  • SabinStargem@lemmy.todayEnglish
    8·
    14 days ago

    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.

    It is best if everyone had personal freedom, but they shouldn’t have absolute freedom over everybody else. I hope the arrangement I outlined gives enough flexibility that most folks would feel fulfilled.

    • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.mlOP
      5·
      14 days ago

      I won’t lie, and I’m sure some would have some criticisms, but that sounds like a good enough cure to me.

    • Darcranium@lemmy.world
      5·
      14 days ago

      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

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    81·
    14 days ago

    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.

  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
    6·
    14 days ago

    There are definetely psychological effects of holding a million or more dollars for long periods of time.

  • jcorvera@quokk.auEnglish
    5·
    14 days ago

    The only cure is the Billionaire Attitude Readjustment Tool, the one invented in France.

      • jcorvera@quokk.auEnglish
        2·
        14 days ago

        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.

  • Darkonion@lemmy.world
    3·
    14 days ago

    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.