For example: private equity firms buying trailer parks and raising rents so high that people go bankrupt

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[–] 1 point 2 minutes ago

Every four years, people are asked to vote whether they like or dislike a bunch of randomly selected big companies

If the dislike is over 50%, the people in charge of that company are killed

Companies are not allowed to invest in advertisement, sponsor anyone, or purchase anything in the scope of improving their public image

This is a terrible solution, but i do not have the expertise or time to make laws that would fix capitalism

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  • [–] 2 points 46 minutes ago

    If the only tool available is criminalization, that's not enough. Financial violence preys on the lack of a guarantee of needs being met, so the best option would be to make some way to guarantee that. But some options are:

    Make a "business license" system. If at any point a business commits any financial crime, like monopolization, price gouging, financial violence, etc, all the upper leadership is immediately sacked, and they are barred from running any other business, with serious prison time as punishment for dodging this ban.

    Be brutal on monopolies and anticompetitive practice. If a company we've gets more than 70% of the revenue of their sector in a year, some of the company is sold off at auction. If it's shown that the company was using anticompetitive practices, the leadership is immediately sacked, loses any business license, and gets prison time.

    Any company that provides a needed good or service (eg. food, housing, energy, internet, transport) has a profit cap. All their accounting must be publicly available, and if the profit or any leader's income is too high (number to be decided), this counts as a financial crime.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago* (last edited 39 minutes ago)

    Possessing more than a generous $100m USD in worth. Instant death.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

    It doesn't matter. The only reason the state has power is that capital grants it, the only reason capital has value is that the state protects it. The state and capital are interdependent and you can't use one to fight the other.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

    so you're advocating for a violent overthrow of both state and capital by the citizens?

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  • [–] 30 points 5 hours ago (6 children)

    Wage theft, as in any participant goes to jail, not just a fine and restitution from the company.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

    Enforcement of your law would eliminate most of the crime. And really change the demographics of prison populations.

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    [–] 9 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    Corporations and businesses now have jail time.

    The leading body of the business are each individually arrested for the duration of a full financial audit of their activities to insure that they've followed the law and acted in good faith.

    The business itself will be lead by an established committee of financial ethics officers until the sentence is fulfilled.

    All net profits, dividends, and financial winfalls of the company are forfeited to the federal government for the duration of the sentence.

    After the jail time is served, 80% of all aforementioned incomes are garnished to repay victims for damages.

    Any other criminal activities found during audits and operations are to be prosecuted individually.

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    [–] 23 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 hours ago

    Who needs more than, let's be excessively generous and say 500 million in total assets? That can be a really nice house, several nice cars, a boat, and a vacation home in place of your choosing. This asset valuation would then also include artwork and other such items of agreed-upon-societal-value. And if you swear you somehow need more, then youre just a miserable fuck who will never be happy without intensive therapy and even then I worry it wouldn't be enough.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 hours ago (7 children)

    Owning one red cent above $999,999,999.99 immediately triggers arrest and jail time of not less than 3 years in a federal faculty, and a seizure of all property above that amount.

    Or maybe if you accumulate more than that amount, all of your property is immediately seized. You get an award ceremony and bronze medal held in a local park. A bench gets a plaque with your name on it. And you are left penniless in the park to begin the game over again.

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    [–] 2 points 2 hours ago

    Start with the main perpetrators of course and criminalize underpaying

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  • [–] 6 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

    Private equity buying up something and running it to the ground to sell for parts.

    I don’t think it’s possible to criminalize it nor do I think that it’s the worse thing out there, but I think it should be illegal

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    This one really bugs me. I worked for a company that got bought out by private equity. They sold most of the real estate that the company owned to a company that the same private equity people owned, and then made the stores pay exorbitant rent for the property the used to own. Meanwhile, they sold pieces of the company until there was nothing left, and then closed all the stores. Thousands of people lost their livelihoods.

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    [–] 4 points 4 hours ago

    Instead of going for a hail marry, why not do simple things that we know will work. Ban the industries that prey on the poor: gambling, pay-day/ car-title lending, rent to own anything, settlement-restructuring, and the practice of charging inmates rent. I'm sure there are plenty I forgot.

    If you really wanted revolutionary policy, do something about compounding interest.

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    [–] 6 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    Make it a legal requirement for any indefinite revokable license product on sale to be sold as "indefinitely licensing". Any term implying irevokable ownership (I.e. buying, purchasing) would be illegal to use.

    It would wisen a lot of people up very quickly to what's essentially a long-play con being pulled on them constantly, especially as some games companies *cough* Sony *cough* are looking to force digital-only ecosystems.

    ... And if being forced to use that term makes the companies doing this squeemish, well they could always just stop selling revokable licenses.

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    [–] 5 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

    Criminalize cops and prosecutors enforcing laws differentially based on the wealth of the suspects or victims.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 4 hours ago

    I’d go one step further and eliminate qualified immunity. Give citizens the ability to bring charges against cops for violating any of their rights. If the cops can’t produce bodycam footage of the incident, it’s a default judgment against them.

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    [–] 2 points 4 hours ago

    The moment you become a billionaire you're given a choice. Either you forfeit 70% of your current value to a fund that provides free school lunches, universal healthcare, and maybe UBI. If you refuse to donate 70% then you go to real, no shit, butt raping prison for 10 years where upon your release (if you survive) you will start over from square one with no money, no bank account, no car, no house, nothing but the clothes you wore to prison.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 hours ago*

    wage gap, no income over a certain ratio between least and most income per company

    and since we already have a minimum wage, establish a maximum wage

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  • [–] 6 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    Having an MBA = Attempted fraud.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 4 hours ago

    I’m not opposed to having people who know how to run a business, but they should criminalize certain ways of running it. Any business practices that take advantage of workers or tax loopholes should be banned from teaching in business schools.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    If you at any time hold assets more than, let's say $250 million, all of your property is seized and you get a iridescent credit card that says "I won capitalism". You can use it for $5k a day (growth linked to minimum wage) to do anything, and we'd offer a concierge service to rent mansions or yachts through a point system

    My department would then be concerned with handling their investments to fund the program and reinvest what's left over in the form of grants (mostly to start and run small businesses with no repayment if certain metrics are met)

    But mostly we'd be game masters. We'd keep the capitalism winners busy competing for prestigious (but meaningless) prizes. They want to fly people in for a party? You can pay their way with points to flex. You want to shake hands with the president? We'll run a point auction occasionally and have award ceremonies for the special winners

    Otherwise, they can use the money however they want. They can play the games and compete with their "peers", or they could fuck off and live like a big shot...5k a day is a lot of money. And we're happy for them to use it, they can buy things and donate their remainder to anyone they want. They could let their entire family live in comfort and safety

    But if they ever touch money, literally or figuratively, or fail to register into the system, they lose their freedom and are forced into our little summer camp games for a length of time determined by the offense

    Silly as it sounds, we'd be literally saving the world

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