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nor that they give a rat’s ass about sustainability, humanity, earth etc like some of them like Elon claims
90% should be the minimum after 1 million a year
I’d go for 99% after 5 bil
Log tax rate.
I’d go for 200% after 5 bil, because their wealth needs to be lowered.
I think we just need to send them into space… Forcibly. Permanently.
I’ve played fallout for more than 2 decades. How the fuck are we diving face first into every sci-fi dystopia at the same time? Like, there’s hints of star wars, dune, fallout, 1984, the outer worlds, hunger games, Idiocracy etc. I’m hoping cyberpunk 2077 shows up and gives a sliver of a chance.
Because those things were based on the real world and we are very bad at learning from the ever-growing list of mistakes we can’t stop making.
Cyberpunk 2077 is not a good world and does not have a good ending. That world is a horrid, capitalist dystopia. Maybe you should watch Edgerunners if you still can’t figure it out from the game.
The point was that as bad as cyberpunk’s future is, I’m fairly certain ours will be worse in 52 years. At least in their timeline there’s a resistance.
I say we put them all in a rocket and shoot them into space…
That’s it. Problem solved.
Yeah… no. First other, no less greedy people will inherit their wealth, second capitalism guarantees the concentration of wealth to absurd degrees. “Kill all billionaires” is surprisingly not a good solution to the problem of billionaires.
Oh, I read the OC idea as a symptom cure. It’s not as good as curing the cause, but symptoms need to be addressed too.
Subs are cheaper
Anchor and chains in 20m waters is much cheaper.
Ancher and chain?! In this economy! A .22 round is about ¢28
I mean at that rate stoning is free, but I don’t wanna stoop to taliban. Maybe French had the right idea.
Especially if you don’t plan to bring them back.
They’ve been allowed to game the system to hoard way more wealth than any single person should have been able to. They were supposed to pay their employees more, charge less to their customers or if all fails pay more taxes. But they didn’t do any of that.
If this was a video game that would be called an “exploit that breaks the gameplay experience for everyone else” and it would have been solved in a patch. But to remain in the same analogy, they are buddies with the game developers so they’re allowed to do anything they want. The only difference is that everyone in the country is forced to play this broken game as it is.
Meanwhile I’m being taxed far too much
Are you in the Netherlands?
T(axed) E(nough) A(lready) Party
Axed nough lready
Arent they also using public money for this mainly?
Yup. Public contracts, grants, and subsidies that could be funding federal agencies are being pocketed by these sex pests.
Jesus all commies.
Now you guys have a problem with innovation.
No, you with thinking.
There, same amount of information given.
Governments can innovate, and indeed can do so more efficiently than corporations, since they do not need profits.
I assume you’re reading this on the Internet, if you need an example.
it isn’t. it is an intended best case scenario for those invested. capitalism rewards trickery and thievery. excess wealth is part of its system dependent on class hierarchies. it was millionaires before billionaires and now we’re about to have our first trillionaire. for fucks sake.
No one should have enough money to purchase entire branches of government. Musk could give every member of congress 10 million and still be a billionarie many times over. That kind of wealth is not compatible with democracy.
These assholes get taxed 1-2% on their total wealth increases per year - and even that gets offset with their loopholes - meanwhile the average people pay anywhere between 30-50% of just their income (and that doesn’t account for other taxes like VAT, property, vehicle and road taxes, and so on).
And not only that, but if you taxed them at 99% they’d still have silly amounts of money and ungodly financial security while even 20% off a poor person being paid by a less rich local business is just hurting the both of them. Taxes are a good thing but like you say they are horrendously unbalanced.
It’s a clear sign the government isn’t, itself, spending enough on spaceflight and associated R&D.
Turning our next generation of economic and military supremacy over to the dipshit horn dogs that tanked retail sales and fucked up the post office seems like a huge mistake.
Both can be true
With higher progressive taxes, not only do we stop billionaires from possibly existing, but the government gets more resources to spend on spaceflight R&D among other things.
Governments HAVE the resources. They CHOOSE to not spend it on R&D.
Many people are aggressive here towards rich, but what will happen to you if you become rich suddenly? Now you are not so eager to loose your money, don’t you? The sins of greed and pride visit every one. And only a few resist them. Just think about it. And I am not advocating for the rich, but saying to look from their perspective.
You’re just outing yourself as a piece of garbage. I would pay my fucking employees, and if I somehow did it myself ethically it would be winning a lottery and I would share it amongst my friends and family.
I already do stuff like this. I own a sports car and I fight for pedestrianizing our streets, including the main one near where I live. I ride public transit and take the bike share service to get places. A guy once asked me to sign a petition to get rid of paid parking and I told him that I literally do not care and that it’s only fair that I personally pay to park my personal vehicle on publically funded infrastructure given how many people on that street don’t own cars and still have to pay for them.
You’re just an asshole who has already been visited by the sins of greed and pride and you’re just pissy that you don’t have the resources to act on those feelings. Be a better person, and quit this projecting bullshit; I don’t want any part of it.
Temporarily embarrassed millionaire energy here.
We understand their perspective alright. The concept of a millionaire or billionaire is simply disgusting because it is clear they use the power their wealth offers them to get out of paying their fair share while simultaneously needlessly exploiting us even further and in some cases meddling in politics or media so as to delude us into thinking: this is normal or – in your case – won’t someone empathize with the billionaire?
I have no problem with the rich. In fact I love them! I’d love to have as many rich as possible.
Unfortunately, that means, the gold hoarding dragon monsters we have currently at the top needs to go.
If I become a billionaire, Lemmings would be right to break out the French cutlery and bibs.
Power of all forms corrupts, but that doesn’t mean tyrants have a point when they disappear dissenters. Fuck the rich’s perspective, not because I’m above being a rich asshole (maybe I am, maybe I’m not, who knows) but because even if I was it wouldn’t justify hoarding my wealth at the expense of 99.9% of the population.
I don’t even know who the first one is and I’m kind of afraid of finding out
Richard Branson.
I haven’t heard anything particularly bad about him. Actually, I don’t know anything about him. How’s he like?
Not that it really matters but he’s been knighted.
She should have swung that sword a lot harder
