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    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPM
      14·
      4 months ago

      You’d just end up with a new set of oligarchs taking their place. The issue isn’t with specific individuals, it’s with the system that produces them and keeps them in power. Until these power structures are dismantled, nothing’s going to change.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPM
          2·
          4 months ago

          I mean sure if the workers organizes a revolution, and established the dictatorship of the working class. That’s a proven way to keep these people in line.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPM
          9·
          4 months ago

          Have you ever worked at a large company? The leadership does jack shit there. A CEO left for a different gig at one place I worked at, and it took a year to replace him. Nothing at all visibly changed during that time. All companies are run by the workers, and they’re what holds the company together.

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPM
              3·
              4 months ago

              That’s basically the story. We had no CEO for over a year, a large org around 400 people or so. People just kept doing their work, and things kept running along.

              Amusingly, the most disruptive part was actually the new CEO coming on board, because naturally he had to show that he had his own ideas. So he decided to change a bunch of processes just for the sake of it.

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      If all of the 1% just died overnight how would it affect us?

      it would only have an impact if you prevented a new crop of 1 percenters from inheriting all the money like china is doing to their billionaires.

    • DeepSpace9mm@lemmy.ml
      21·
      4 months ago

      I wonder if it would cause political apathy in the us at least. It is comforting to think, problem solved, and ignore wealth inequality until the tension again sufficiently increases so as to be unnoticeable.