Mitchell and Webb - Kill The Poor

Why not?

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[Angel Joel]

Awkwardly, I was expecting this comment before clicking the video. And If it weren't there, then I would have acted as the pretentious person.

I'll go sit in a corner with my awkwardness now.

[Gazereths1234]

That pilot scheme in Yeovil had promise, they should have gone nation wide with it.

[Denethorable]

I was just wondering if Iain Duncan Smith had been getting ideas from it.

[LaPlumeDeMaTante1]

Thanks, I'll put it on my to-do list.

[prosperomage]

Ok, ok.

If you feel like you really must kill someone, you can go ahead and kill the Gypsies.

Well ... most of them. Leave the cute ones.

[LaPlumeDeMaTante1]

Gypsies then?

[prosperomage]

OK. Kill the people who do most of the work and produce most of the products for the people who take the risk to start business ventures.

That'll work well.

Go around "killing" anyone (or dismissing the contribution of any group who manages and produces products, which is what we're really talking about) and you push "the poor" closer to starvation.

It's been tried.

See Soviet Russia or Communist China for most of the 20 century.

It failed.

[LaPlumeDeMaTante1]

Ok, then kill the middle class.

[MrEddiyOwen]

They should name their love child Troels Joel Jr.

[prosperomage]

The vast majority of millionaires made their money by taking risks and starting businesses and putting other people to work.

If you killed all the rich, you would destroy any chance "the poor" have to have much of a life at all.

Idiot.

[ephemeralprotagonist]

This is pretty much the Republican manifesto in a nutshell. Actually, killing the poor is a terrible idea.

It would actually be much better to kill all the rich. The offspring of inherited wealth that pay little taxes and contribute nothing to the world. All their assets sold and wealth redistributed would end world poverty.

[ThisIsWater7]

As a Conservative, I often watch this video for inspiration.