Mock them.

I sound like a broken record but, BAN ADVERTISING. Along with all the pretty well established secondary bad effects of advertising, the most basic direct effect of it is lying to people. If people weren’t deluged daily with lies about how they should think of this or that company, they wouldn’t be so readily deluded into thinking of a company like a person with a positive effect on their world.

You’re three bad months away from being homeless.

You will never be three good months away from being a billionaire.

You don’t. If you can’t handle someone having different opinions/ideas than you, you’re the fascist.

Ruthless mockery.

Probably won’t work, but at least you’ll get a laugh out of it.

Platforms like twitter and facebook (and many “news” companies) brainwash their users, mostly by providing multiple different lies. Users pick whichever lie appeals to them the most, and they pretend they have found the truth.

To combat this, we need to emphasize the importance of thinking critically and verifying claims.

State the facts. Correct their misconceptions. Emphasize that billionaires are intentionally killing us all; lazy thinkers might reconsider if there is a possibility their life is at stake. I’m not saying threaten them, but we are all threatened by human greed.

The people you’re talking to might not listen, but someone else might. Sometimes it just takes repetition to get through to someone, hearing the same clear message from multiple different sources.

Advocate for stakeholder socialist policies like worker and consumer coöps that would render billionaires impossible.

Puch them square in the jaw

You have to instill class consciousness in them, which is extremely difficult to do, especially in the usa bc our public education system in many places lies and says that this is a meritocracy when it’s not. So people believe that if they just work hard and do what they’re told then they’ll get rich. And when that obviously doesn’t happen, the republican party points towards whatever minority group they’ve selected for that election cycle and says “it’s their fault”

Like I said, actually getting people to understand that they have more in common with the poorest, queerest, immigrant than they do with a white cishet billionaire is really difficult, but the best way to do it is to redirect the conversation from minority groups to the actual problem. For example, if someone complains that immigrants are stealing their jobs then don’t start with a denial or disagreeing with them. Say, “you’re right. Companies hiring undocumented immigrants for less than or just minimum wage does depress wages for Americans. Companies that do this should be adequately punished and we should streamline our process for getting documents for undocumented immigrants. That way companies can’t take advantage of them or depress the wages of americans either.” Some people won’t listen bc they don’t want to learn, but if you keep trying eventually some people will listen and learn

Also try to get them to understand just how much money a trillion or even a billion dollars is

1. Stop allowing cuts to education and stop advancing kids who can’t comprehend the material for that grade. The world will always need ditch diggers. Telling a future ditch digger that they’re smart enough to graduate when they can’t read and/or comprehend at their grade level, if at all, is doing that child and society as a whole a disservice. Not only does it set up that child to then become an arrogant adult, but it deprives society of the documentation, or lack thereof, that this person is not, and should not be, considered any sort of authority on anything other than ditch digging.

2. Understand that some people are actually evil and don’t deserve to live.

That’s the fun part. You don’t. It’s human nature, at least for neurotypical hominids to submit to confident icons, even when that confidence is unearned and grounded in hubris, not competence. Wealth makes people very confident, even about things they don’t actually understand. You’re not going to educate them into abandoning millions of years of human instinct. What you can do is make people angry enough at the current crop of billionaires they’re ready to put them up against the wall tell them you have a way to keep terrible people from getting that obscenely wealthy again, and then do it… with the knock on effect of making that level of obscene wealth disparity systemically impossible for anyone. That’s going to make people angry too though, you’re probably going to end up crucified for it, because you know, it’s a country of temporarily embarrassed billionaires.

More power, more reputation. People automatically flock to trillion dollar companies.

If you want to stop people you have to stop it for all companies. You have to make brands less important.

It’s easy! Simply eliminate all people.

I have not seen this behavior outside of maga politicians and corporate c suite types.

You can’t because you can’t fix stupid! The people that do are beyond ignorant and don’t want to be informed of the truth!