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@crk5@layer8.space

July 31, 2025 at 7:31:19 AM
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Comparing actual people with parasites was always a path to inhumanity

@expertenkommision_cyberunfall @crk5 However this lacks an important distinction: Referring to billionaires as parasites implies that they are parasites because of their status as billionaires; 'removing' such 'parasites' from the economy thus refers to ensuring they are no longer as wealthy, not that they irredeemably inhuman.

@PursuitOfElysia @expertenkommision_cyberunfall @crk5

Good point. 🤔 I still need time to decide, which is the right alternative.

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@expertenkommision_cyberunfall @crk5 Could look at it as not being the people that's the problem but their wealth. Remove the cash and they're still people and still very much alive. Now if it was advocating killing billionaires then there'd be something to that comparison.

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