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Just the fact that financial crimes over a certain amount are punishable by death in China (and people have actually been executed for them) says a lot. It's a law that literally applies only to the rich because a normal person would never even get to glimpse the amount of money required for execution to be on the table.
The fact that rich people are routinely executed in China is one of the clearest indications that dictatorship of the proletariat has been achieved. And this is precisely why China terrifies the west so much.
China has a really high population so the total count numbers are going to seem high.
The second column tells you that it's a whopping 0.6% of China's population while every other country is between 2.7% and 8.5%. Guess which country is the 8.5%
yes i know, i was well aware of that when posting it.
That Australian number seems inflated by property. People bought houses 40 years ago for a handshake and a nod and now the houses are "worth" 2 million dollars or whatever. But if you sell your house you need to buy another one and they come in 2 sizes: million dollar family home or million dollar shoebox studio in the city.
So it's monopoly money.
dictatorship of the proletariat has been achieved.
I think it's a strong indicator that the political class hasn't been completely bought (yet) but it doesn't at all look like a dictatorship of the proletariat even a little bit.
Do tell how Chinese system doesn't look like a dictatorship of the proletariat even a little bit this ought to be good.
George Carlin skit about executing corrupt bankers on live TV
He was right, too. A few bankers and politicians get the wall and, what do you know, suddenly being very rich is good enough for a bunch of these corrupt fucks.
Nobody deserves the death penalty. It's just cruelty with no benefit for the society. Studies show, time after time, that it has little to no deterrent effect. Its only purposes are either narrow-minded vengeance or preventing a person from being freed once the current government fails.
That said, I'm all for confiscating all wealth from anyone worth over a billion dollars and placing them under arrest until they can effectively demonstrate they are no longer a parasite on the society.
What usually happens in China is that, if the accused cooperates, their death sentence is commuted to life imprisonment. Otherwise they are indeed executed.
That's a bit better, I guess? But then China still executes the most people in the world every year, most of them not even billionaires. How many of them are innocent working-class people framed for something they didn't do? (Hint: historically that percentage is alarmingly high if you look at other countries). Fuck that shit, countries should abolish executions after their socialist revolution succeeds.
Counterpoint: if you deem killing hundreds to thousands of others by spreadsheet to make your line go up, you have to be made an example of. I don't care if Eichmann could have been rehabilitated or if Netanyahu can, they're not worth the manpower required to get them there.
Crimes of necessity are one thing, death or cruel punishment won't do a single bit. Crimes of greed? Those fucks only understand deterrence by threat of violence, because all they think of is themselves.
If the Sackler family had been executed for their crimes I bet you'd see far fewer claims denied and insulin wouldn't be worth an arm and a leg.
Counterpoint: if you deem killing hundreds to thousands of others by spreadsheet to make your line go up, you have to be made an example of.
Sure. Confiscate everything they have, confiscate everything their family has, put them in prison. There is little difference in deterrence between that and the death penalty.
I don’t care if Eichmann could have been rehabilitated or if Netanyahu can, they’re not worth the manpower required to get them there.
Whether you care or not is irrelevant when we're talking about a human life.
Crimes of necessity are one thing, death or cruel punishment won’t do a single bit. Crimes of greed? Those fucks only understand deterrence by threat of violence, because all they think of is themselves.
Sure. Imprisonment is definitionally violence.
If the Sackler family had been executed for their crimes I bet you’d see far fewer claims denied and insulin wouldn’t be worth an arm and a leg.
Or, uh, if this shit was properly regulated in the first place there wouldn't be as many parasites getting wealthy on it, and there would be no price gouging. Look at the rest of the "developed" world, insulin is basically free there, and 0 executions were needed to get there (unless we're counting the threat of proletariat revolution, but then the US also had that). Those who would still abuse the system could be imprisoned to stop them from doing so.
tbh you can't exile people anymore and getting staggering rich requires sustained campaigns of oppressive violence and exploitation.
It's self defence, you're talking about people that have demonstrated a complete lack of empathy and a complete lack of wanting to use their resources to rectify that or limit the harms they can do.
These aren't like people with FAS trying to do anger management courses because their brains got damaged. They're unrepentant, remorseless, and cruel. They had the resources to do literally anything to demonstrate contrition and chose not to every single day.
It’s self defence, you’re talking about people that have demonstrated a complete lack of empathy and a complete lack of wanting to use their resources to rectify that or limit the harms they can do.
It's definitionally not self-defense to kill someone who's already in handcuffs. I don't care if they are straight up evil, no living being deserves to be murdered once they present no actual danger.
If you have a way to rehabilitate them don't hold back.
That's kinda irrelevant to murdering someone. But yeah, if you make your prisons places that fix people rather than places for punishment (provide prisoners the ability to learn actually useful skills and put them to use, and offer therapy) I think that even some of the worst parasites, murderers, etc can eventually become useful members of society (see the Scandinavian prison model for how this can be applied quite successfully).
Scandanavia doesn't rehab billionaires lmao.
Yeah sure, Scandinavian countries are capitalist and thus billionaires are treated as demigods. We still observe that their prison system has better outcomes for everyone involved (convicts & society) compared to US/Chinese system of "prisons as punishment only" and learn from it.
I'm not getting into this. The rich willfully demonstrate every single day they are more intentionally anti-social than the most psychotic serial killers. They are pure aberrations, utterly remorseless, completely without empathy. They happily commit mass murder with the wave of a pen again and again, they are engaged in active omnicide. Literally they are actively killing entire ecosystems to avoid a life of staggering luxury vs a life of unimaginable luxury.
Nobody has ever demonstrated an effective treatment for such a disordered mind.
Nobody has ever demonstrated an effective treatment for such a disordered mind.
How many times have we tried? It's 0. AES countries throw them in (somewhat) brutal prisons or execute them, and capitalist countries with rehab-oriented prisons don't consider parasitism a crime (which of course it is).
The same has been said many times about murderers and rapists in the past (and, by some people, in the present too) - and yet look at rates of recidivism in Scandinavia. 80% or more of violent criminals become productive members of society after being released.
Are parasites worse? Sometimes. I've had the displeasure of talking to a person worth ~$1B (it was Evgeniy Kaspersky for reference). They just didn't want to think about all the suffering they are causing, instead saying shit like "I worked hard for this, if other people worked as hard they'd be as rich". Just like most people don't want to think where their chicken nuggets come from and how they are produced. I don't think they lack empathy, they're just trying their best to avoid feeling it towards people they're exploiting.
AES countries need to push the envelope of humanity, not be stuck in brutal 17th century ways. Try to teach everyone empathy and understanding, give everyone a second chance, the worst that could happen with a parasite is that they try this shit again after being released and go back to prison, with their wealth confiscated for public good once again.
It's absolutely not 0, people constantly try non violent means of renegotiating social relations and get nowhere, in fact they usually get executed for the trouble. Revolutions have left people alive and they consistently side with counterrevolutionary forces and violently crush anyone attempting to improve equality.
I mean french revolution says hello? The worst that can happen is they scuttle off, rouse reactionary forces, and violently oppress billions again. Which they have consistently done no matter how attractive the proposed alternatives have been.
Also people who aren't vegan and have encountered the idea also suck, so that isn't exactly making your point.