A modest proposal for Billionaires

“ I don’t think we should have billionaires.” Zohran Mamdani

Billionaires are an aspiration for everyone who purchases a lottery ticket. The idea of having life-changing wealth is a fervent dream of a vast majority of Americans, particularly American workers. One wonders if workers worldwide could comfortably financially support their various needs with one source of employment. Would lotteries even exist?

Those who are not billionaires trying to navigate an economy with a significant number of billionaires is similar to being a student in a class where the grade system consists of 100% equal to A, 75% equal to C , 65% equal to D, and below F, failure.  If some students get grades of 1,000,000,000% (how is up for debate), then that is now the A grade, and many getting 90% are barely passing the class.  Those who in the past were passing with a C are failing abjectly.

There is a sense of unfairness in all this, even primates can understand.

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Those who gain 1,000,000,000% are representative of a significant portion of men and a few women have more money than they’ll ever spen

d, while others must work multiple jobs to cover bills, housing, childcare, or debt.

Our simple example shows how billionaire wealth inflates everything of financial value in proportion to its presence. Historical data confirms that extreme wealth causes inflation, and in some cases, hyperinflation, for those below the threshold (the formerly C passing group) of extraordinary wealth.

Mansa Musa was the ninth Mansa (hereditary ruler) of the Mali Empire. Mansa Musa's generosity with gold caused inflation, particularly in Egypt, during his 1324 pilgrimage to Mecca. His extravagant spending and distribution of vast amounts of gold into local economies devalued gold, causing prices for goods to rise significantly and take over a decade to recover.

Politicians funded by billionaires can hide hyperinflation with economic policies like trade wars and austerity, diverting attention from their role in driving costs up through draconian trade policies that lower employment.

Hey, have you noticed that some of the big-name billionaires in the US are backing those mass deportation efforts? It seems like they’re using immigration restrictions as a way to protect their businesses and keep their money flowing.

When birth rates are low, immigration can really help boost production and the national GDP. If racism is the real reason for mass deportation, racism is expensive.

Billionaires aren’t centering the wellbeing of humanity with their wealth; they’re concerned only with acquiring more wealth and power over others.

Where does that leave the 99% who aren’t billionaires?

The 99% whose physical and mental efforts, whose attention made billionaires?

The 99% who need justice in the midst of disputes both civil and criminal?

The 99% who need laws that serve all without exemptions?

The 99% whose creations, inventions, physical likeness and intellectual property need protection?

The 99% whose property needs protection from infringement yet also need assess to the commons for all?

The 99% who demand privacy and to have that privacy both respected and protected?

The 99% who demand a clean environment and equal opportunity to thrive without restriction due to how they pray or not pray at all; without restriction because they have robust and healthy melanocytes or shy, reclusive ones; without restriction for the way they have consensual sex or choose not to have sex; without restriction for whether their sex organs are comfortably nestled internally or dangle unapologetically externally.

The 99% need governance and laws to protect and improve our lives. Political representation should serve our collective needs, allowing us to build our families and lives. This form of governance should inspire secular and religiously guided nations to move away from authoritarianism and embrace democracy. Unfortunately, many in the billionaire class are actively sabotaging actively sabotaging this dynamic, admittedly difficult form of governance.

A modest proposal: the political status of billionaires should mean a graduation from a life political participation.

Billionaires have graduated out of the need for governance and participation in governments and laws.  They no longer need citizenship as they can live anywhere on the planet, and their wealth tends to drown out the votes of millions of citizens. They can purchase private security so they have no need of sovereign militaries or police. They should have no need of our courts since courts nationally and internationally apparently have no jurisdiction over them and their actions. Billionaires should be restricted from interacting with the vulnerable, children (from birth to 17 years of age), the sick, and elderly. Many of their class have of late shown an abusive disregard for the emotional, mental, and physical well-being of those members of society for quite some time.

Some might wonder what the billionaire class could do if they were removed from society. Where would their purpose lie?

They commonly threaten to leave us behind if we actualize our expectations of the inclusion of their fair share investment in the commons so they could do anything they desire, as long as it’s outside of nation-states. Imagine snorting coke off a SW’s chest, meditating on the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro, sending friends into orbit around the Earth, or experimenting with submersibles. The possibilities are truly endless!

Billionaires, you have won the freedom from interaction with the rest of us culturally, somewhat financially because your class tends to just trade wealth amongst yourselves, and most importantly politically.

Congratulations, the 99% salute you all in your evolution.