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   Hippo 🍉 (badrihippo@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 02:41:40 JST Hippo 🍉

   • ghostdancer
   • Ted Gould
   • Evan Prodromou
   • malte
   • Humphrey Archer

   @evan so many good 'but's for the "yes, but..." option. I like @malte's idea of billionairism being a fleeting condition that's disappeared through generosity (or maybe @ghostdancer's more violent version?) 💸

   But maybe the more reasonable answer is what @screwturn and @ted said: let it be allowed in theory without artificially denying it, but treat it as an error condition —i.e. if any actually pop up then there's a flaw in the system we've got to fix ⚠️

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     clacke@libranet.de is my main [fds] (notclacke@fedia.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 02:41:40 JST clacke@libranet.de is my main [fds]

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     • ghostdancer
     • Ted Gould
     • Evan Prodromou
     • malte
     • Humphrey Archer

     @badrihippo Oh yes, this sums up clearly what I wasn't quite thinking so crisp and clear when I voted "no, but ...".
     
     If I'll rephrase what I was kind of thinking, helped by what you said, billionaires are a problem indication, but directly suppressing them is suppressing a symptom rather than a root cause.
     
     @evan @malte @ghostdancer @screwturn @ted

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     Hippo 🍉 (badrihippo@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 03-Jul-2025 00:08:53 JST Hippo 🍉

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     • ghostdancer
     • Ted Gould
     • Evan Prodromou
     • malte
     • clacke@libranet.de is my main [fds]
     • Humphrey Archer

     @notclacke ah yes, symptom but not the root cause: that sums it up for sure! Billionaires shouldn't exist, but artificially restricting won't really help

     @ted @evan @ghostdancer @malte @screwturn

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     malte (malte@radikal.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Jul-2025 00:08:53 JST malte

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     • clacke@libranet.de is my main [fds]
     • Humphrey Archer

     @badrihippo Since I'm still being mentioned in this thread, I'll chip in and say that treating symptoms is vastly underrated among radicals in my experience :D Almost by definition, the trap of focusing solely on "root causes" is you can miss the obvious stuff to deal with right in front of you, like those actual billionaries - assholes that have a name and an address. E.g. going after Bezoz at his wedding in Venice can have structural effects too @notclacke @ted @evan @ghostdancer @screwturn

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