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Business: we need "additional incentives for research and development"
Govt: ok, this will help grow the economy.
Employees: we need additional incentives to work due to eroding wages and increasingly shitty work conditions. This will also help grow the economy.
Business & Govt: Get fucked!
Financial obesity is neurotoxic, an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
Fucking insanity.
Kill capitalists. Save the planet. Simple.
“And replace them with socialists, right?”
“Kill the capitalists.” What an absolutely deranged thing to chant as though it were some kind of political slogan worth celebrating. Apparently we’ve reached a point where people can casually advocate killing an entire class of people and then congratulate themselves for being morally enlightened.
For all the advancements humanity has made in medicine, philosophy, science, and morality, we still manage to say incredibly stupid shit like this and other people cheer it on because they seem to have forgotten what the word kill actually means.
And before anyone starts: no, capitalism is not perfect. Of course it isn't. But pretending that capitalism has produced nothing but misery requires ignoring an enormous amount of history.
We are living through one of the most prosperous and peaceful periods in human history. The countries that consistently rank among the world's most prosperous, stable, and livable are overwhelmingly capitalist economies. Germany is capitalist. Sweden is capitalist. Norway is capitalist. Denmark is capitalist. They have extensive welfare programs, strong labor protections, and social safety nets, but they are still capitalist economies.
Even the United States, despite its very real problems, remains one of the wealthiest and most prosperous countries on Earth. You don't have to like that fact, but disliking it doesn't make it untrue.
There is nothing inherently virtuous about hating an economic class. There is certainly nothing virtuous about fantasizing about killing people because of the economic system they support.
“Kill the capitalists” isn't a serious political argument. It is virtue signaling dressed up as revolutionary rhetoric, a way for people to feel morally superior without having to articulate an actual solution to the problems they're angry about.
If your political philosophy requires you to start by deciding which group of human beings deserves to die, perhaps the problem isn't capitalism.
Disclaimer: None of this should be interpreted as me claiming that capitalism is some flawless or inherently virtuous economic system. I fully acknowledge its massive faults, including exploitation, wealth concentration, monopolistic behavior, and the increasingly corporatocratic nature of the United States. I simply reject socialism as an economic model and don't believe that acknowledging capitalism's failures requires pretending that socialism is the answer. You can criticize capitalism and we absolutely should without advocating for its abolition or fantasizing about killing the people who participate in it.
Additional disclaimer: I am not oblivious to the violence happening around the world right now. I am fully aware of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the massive war between Russia and Ukraine, the conflict involving Iran, and the numerous wars, insurgencies, and other forms of violence occurring across Africa and elsewhere. None of that should be minimized or dismissed. My point is a comparative historical one: even with these horrific conflicts occurring today, humanity as a whole is still living through one of the least violent and most peaceful periods in recorded history when measured against the enormous scale of human history and global population. That does not make today's suffering any less horrific, nor does it excuse any of it. It simply puts the present into its proper historical context.
its only self defense, no big deal
They're talking about the actual capitalist borgeousie though ... They can go. Rich people been fucking the rest of us since forever and it's some bullshit.
Like, if you're working a job to earn money you're by definition not a capitalist. It's not about killing a ton of people but these lecherous monsters who steal our value and give us a fraction and say "you're welcome for being exploited" have got to go.
He acknowledges that he is asking a great deal of employees, but says he does not want to take anything away from anyone.
Some of you will die however that is the risk that I prepared to take.
In 2025, STIHL generated €5.48 billion in revenue and employed 20,246 people worldwide. Founded by Andreas Stihl in 1926, the company is celebrating its 100th anniversary. Nikolas Stihl is the founder's grandson.
Undoubtedly never worked a day in his life. Which also, undoubtedly he would argue about and tell us about that day when he was seven, his grandfather made him carry a sack of nuts and bolts from one side of the factory to the other.
I'll bet that one day still sticks in his memory as if it was some form of torture.
But he thinks everyone that does it daily for hours should do it more for free.
I hope that this badly affects their company before he dies.
Undoubtedly never worked a day in his life.
Probably can't even work one of those chainsaws either.
That was my first thought. I don't work a blue collar job but I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty. This guy looks like he's never been near a running chainsaw.
Eat the rich.
I am entirely convinced that if every billionaire drops dead today, there will be peace on earth tomorrow.
Ehhh, no. The millionaires right below them will erupt in a frenzy to take the top spot and assert control of as much as they can.
Say what you will, but those most vicious ones at the top spend a lot of energy keeping the ones who are just below them, in their places. I see that a ton of misery would spring loose as the multi-millionaires fight each other to get to the top.
Cynic here. I love the sentiment, but without an effective societal rule change the battle for their wealth would be insane. Does each new billionaire drop dead too? That could work out….
I never said it would be a longlived peace!
Anyone with individual access to more than 1% of the wealth in each country gets a 7 day warning before Krueger crawls out their spyware always-recording television and cuts their head off while they sleep.
Doesn't stop people from having loopholes like 80 friends each owning 0.9%, but at least then they have to work for it and manage internal politics more carefully. Also higher chance one of them accidentally turns out to be a decent human instead of a .pdf.
The German economy has been stuck in crisis mode for years
Translation to objective reality: "arrow not go up steeply enough for a while, which makes me shiver in my silken tighty whities"
> Chainsaw maker STIHL chief calls for longer hours without extra pay
> Chainsaw maker
Let's update that saying about capitalists selling us ropes.
All of our entire lifestyles and culture support and fund them.
We are the problem and nothing is going to change until people can admit it.
Forget the /s at all?
You ever watch "My 600lb Life"?
In almost every episode, there's the super obese person that can't do a thing for themselves. They couldn't possibly get to and maintain that kind of weight on their own.
There is always an enabler. A spouse, partner, caregiver, whatever, that is feeding them and keeping them in that condition.
Sometimes the enabler doesn't even realize they are doing it. Actually, a lot of the time.
I don't see sarcasm in your parents answer. I see them realizing that having a middle-class lifestyle is unknowingly enabling the billionaires. They exist, in part, because we allow them to.
Nah I think all billionaires need to be [redacted] ceos need same treatment
That is one way to stop enabling them.
I call for quartering CEOs and billionaires with chainsaws
Sure, a rich lazy piece of shit like that is going to tell ME i need to work more for less money, fuck off!
CEO said a thing
mildly?
Didn't know where else to post it
I don't care if they are fucking, as long it isn't raping children on Epstein island.
Wait a minute, how short is a german work week? O.o
40 hours equally split over five days (Monday to Friday) usually, if you work full time
Dr Stihl is complaining about 35h workers. Seems white collar work is less hours?
No. It’s a trade union deal that makes the basis hours 35 a week. Then if you work 40 you get paid more and on top you get some bonus once a year.
It is little nuts but in the end we don’t even earn that much more than the rest of industry so it’s more like a cultural phenomenon by now in my eyes.
Source: I do programming but for a company that runs under IgMetall trade union deal.
Does it matter?
Dr Stihl is complaining about 35h workers. Seems white collar work is less hours?