What about the seizure and occupation of vacant private property?
The actual purpose of the Purge if to make tax fraud legal for 24 hours so the rich can somehow pay even less taxes.
They don’t need a purge night to commit tax fraud, the do it every day, for vast, vast sums of wealth.
If they had a purge night in real life, they would quickly amend it to just “murder” night. Lest the poors get an idea that they too could exploit the system.
Then they would amend it again because they don’t want to get murdered. So it will be “Murdering approved people and groups night” but that also has a chance of backfiring if someone wealthy or the people protecting them could be at risk, so they will just change it to “The police get to murder you night” and then they will shrug and remove the nightly restriction, and then there you go… our current system.
Unnecessary. They’re already doing tax fraud.
They don’t have to pay taxes ever again if the angry mob of poor people get to them.
Hack away, José
I’m gonna infringe on medical patents and pirate as much corpo medicine as I can in 12 hours
Everything except for harming capital, ok? Now go kill each other.
Huge companies would import stuff by the planeloads to avoid tariffs/duties
Apple was literally buying up entire passenger flights and filing them with iPhones instead of people to skirt in under the deadline. Capitalism is a hell of a drug.
Employees would be too busy hunting down CEOs to import stuff for the company.
CEOs would be in Europe.
I imagine there would be a group of people in each company with special contracts for hazard pay to work on purge day.
Just regular pay, but with the promise of a Friday pizza party.
Realistically, doesn’t randomly killing people harm capital, in so much as it would mean they must have more staff to cover the work of an unknown number of murdered employees afterwards, lose money spent training anyone that gets killed, and have a slightly smaller workforce available that also is more proficient at violence?
In theory yes, less employees means the value of labor goes up because of demand. This is what happened after the Black Death in Europe.
In the wake of the drastic population decline brought on by the plague, wages shot up, and labourers could move to new localities in response to wage offers. Local and royal authorities in Western Europe instituted wage controls. The government controls sought to freeze wages at the old levels before the Black Death. Within England, for example, the Ordinance of Labourers, enacted in 1349, and the Statute of Labourers, enacted in 1351, restricted both wage increases and the relocation of workers.[30] If workers attempted to leave their current post, employers were given the right to have them imprisoned. The statute was poorly enforced in most areas, and farm wages in England on average doubled between 1350 and 1450,[31] but they were then static until the late 19th century.[32]
Cohn, comparing numerous countries, argues that the laws were not designed primarily to freeze wages. Instead, he says that the energetic local and royal measures to control labour and artisans’ prices were responses to elite fears of the greed and the possible new powers of the lesser classes that had gained new freedom. Cohn continues that the laws reflected the anxiety that followed the Black Death’s new horrors of mass mortality and destruction and from elite anxiety about manifestations, such as the flagellant movement and the persecution of Jews, Catalans (in Sicily) and beggars.
Of course nothing will stop the ruling class from fuckery.
Let’s go, Luigi!
Let’s cover polygamy and tax fraud. If you marry multiple people during the purge … does that mean the marriages are all legal?
If you claim a $1,000,000 tax refund and mail it while the purge is going … is that legal?
Most people would have way more on their mind than just murder.
the purge: April 15th
(for thise that are not american, this is when we have to file our taxes.)
(also, americans have to file their taxes manually… nothing is automated)
Within 4 hours of announcing that a “purge night” was a thing, they would have to revise it to just call it “murder night” and even then, it will get further modified to “Murder of sanctioned people and groups night” and even THEN they will have to further amend it until it finally says “The police get to murder you night” and then they will want to remove the nightly restriction and then BAM you have what we have now.
Just like that, you have moved any books written about the Purge from fiction to non-fiction.
I haven’t watched the movies in depth, but the premise alone speaks to me of a subtext that leads to this understanding about our world.
I would say that once the purge ends you cannot be legally married to multiple people. Meanwhile if you murder someone they’re just dead. If you kidnap someone you’d have to let them go when it ends.
Stealing is an interesting gray area. Is possessing a stolen object the crime, or is the stealing the crime? Or possibly both? If possessing a stolen object is illegal then you’d have to return them when it ends.
It’s not “stolen” because stealing is a crime but you took it on
free balloonPurge Day. It’s just something you have now.What if you shot someone during the purge, but they did not actually die until the next day.
I’m thinking this whole “no laws” concept would actually need hundreds of thousands of laws. Courts would be tied up for years after each purge just trying to answer the legal questions regarding having no law.
I think of it more as the law looking away from any incidents on the day, and ignoring any lasting consequences after. Makes it neater.
Skyrim would have me believe that possession of a stolen item is also a crime.
Time to erase all debt 👀
Hello, old friend.
F. Society
The first rule of Project Mayhem is you do not ask questions, sir.
His name was Robert Paulson!
Like feeding the homeless in certain cities?
“I’m gonna J-walk all over the place, and there’s nothing you fuckers can do about it! ANARCHY!!”
During the purge I’d hide in my bunker while downloading as much copyrighted material as possible onto a harddrive.
Yes, during the purge I would do this. But only in this hypothetical situation. During the purge. Hypothetically.
Isn’t possession illegal though?
No, just distribution.
During the purge union busting would be worse but man it goes both ways
If you steal a car during the purge do the transfer the title after
Luckily, I think the way that I conduct my life leaves me with very low odds for being on anyone’s kill list. I only have to worry about the murderous random killing.
Soon they’ll come for the thousandaires. You shouldn’t exist!
Ooh look at mr hundredair over here, thinking he’s better than the rest of us. You’ll get what’s coming to ya, pal.
And don’t think for one second that I’ll be turning a blind eye to the rest of you positive balance freaks.
We want to watch poor people kill each other, not better their situation
