• qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 hours ago

    That’s not how net worth works. Being a billionaire != having billion $ in a bank account.

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      6 hours ago

      They’re still financially obese parasites whose wealth should be taxed until it doesn’t exceed a reasonable amount (say, ten times the median or 25 times the lowest, whichever comes first), though.

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          5 hours ago

          OK, so tax anyone with more wealth than that (exponentially proportionally to the difference) and invest in services and UBI and whatnot until it raises.

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            5 hours ago

            the lowest will always be zero, do not doubt the capacity of individuals to become statistical outliers and spend all their money. It might be a little bit reasonable if it was set to 100x-10000x the wealth of the 99.99th percentile

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      4 hours ago

      Yeah, most of it is all smoke and mirrors but they all own media companies which make it seem more than it actually is.