I mean, depending on how it was accomplished, it would definitely put the fear of god into the next generation of bourgeois.
But there’s still an administrative system at play that goes beyond the folks at the top of the pile. If you took the CEO of Blackrock or Exxon and shoved him out of a window on national TV, you’d still have the tens of thousands of staffers pounding away at their rent-collections and fossil-fuel productions. C-levels would move up the chain and we’d get a new generation of ultra-wealthy leaders. Perhaps they’d be more reticent about working in high-rise offices. But they’d still be fixated on managing their corporate empires.
The corporate entity grinds on long after the wealthiest business aristocrats kick the bucket. What you’d ultimately need to do is nationalize these businesses and wind them down. Otherwise, the machinery of exploitation would be picked up by the next ambitious investor or administrator.
I mean, depending on how it was accomplished, it would definitely put the fear of god into the next generation of bourgeois.
But there’s still an administrative system at play that goes beyond the folks at the top of the pile. If you took the CEO of Blackrock or Exxon and shoved him out of a window on national TV, you’d still have the tens of thousands of staffers pounding away at their rent-collections and fossil-fuel productions. C-levels would move up the chain and we’d get a new generation of ultra-wealthy leaders. Perhaps they’d be more reticent about working in high-rise offices. But they’d still be fixated on managing their corporate empires.
The corporate entity grinds on long after the wealthiest business aristocrats kick the bucket. What you’d ultimately need to do is nationalize these businesses and wind them down. Otherwise, the machinery of exploitation would be picked up by the next ambitious investor or administrator.
I was going to say killing all the billionaires wouldn’t work solve everything.
Now if we had a standing policy that as soon as somebody became a billionaire we killed them that would certainly rattle some cages.