It wouldn’t be much different even for billionaires under 90
Yeah, as far as I’m aware, 100% of them came from at least a middle class family. They start with a fair advantage over the poor still. Most are born to extreme wealth though.
You had to do research for that?
Outlaw billionaires, tax them out of existence, and use the proceeds to fund needed social programs like medical care for all and universal basic income.
They can still be richer than 99% of us as multimillionaires, and the more wealth these elites create, the better our society becomes through the tax sequestration - it’s a win win.
Plus, we already know it works.
We just need to tweak it to take into account the ways the rich cheat the system.
They can still be richer than 99% of us as multimillionaires
Miss me with that weak socdem sauce 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
It’s an olive branch, but yeah I hear you.
I hear you too but I’m just tired of giving these people more olive branches for them to strangle us with 😮💨
I’d prefer abolition of the system entirely that makes this possible. If we just tax the rich, they will be able to reinstate the system however long it takes.
Make it as unattractive for them as possible to even consider working against society’s wellbeing. That must mean social ownership of the entire economy, in the hands of all through mutual aid, give-it-forward, communes, and trade unions.
in other news, grass is green
The system we created ensured the wealth is concentrated among a few of us, has always been this way even when monarchs ruled a majority of our population.
I have a suggestion, we should make billionaires pay……their fair share of taxes.
It’s not just this, we need to end all means of them living off borrowed debt. If you own that much money, there is no reason to be borrowing anything from anyone you have more money than
I wonder what the suggestion may be.
No shit. And all them have had funds and investments made in their names the moment they were born.
How do you talk the winner of a Monopoly game into not playing the game anymore and letting us move onto a cooperative game?
Like my god man, Monopoly isn’t even that good of a game; we all know by now it was created to lampoon capitalism. The game sucks. Stop touting your winnings. You are ruining game night with this!
And now you’re having your kids brag about your winnings and holding game night hostage?
Bruh.
Kidnap the fucker and make him live in a third world country for a while, that oughta humble them.
They see money as a method of prestige. So maybe they need to be shifted by prestige.
If for example you got points for each time you helped the community, and can buy more with that, that’d be one. Having a lot of resources is hoarding and you then cannot buy anything with it. Asking for a lot of resources is also hoarding, unless if these resources do not go to your portfolio or that of friends, but instead directly towards benefiting the community as a whole.
And no one can own resources that give them more power to exert violence, than another, and giving away/destroying those resources instead will give you goodwill to gain other resources, once you’ve also given other resources.
If Musk can spy on everyone, why shouldn’t we be able to spy on him?
Their parents created so much value for humanity that it overflows to their children.
(capitalist ideologues really believe this)
I am a billionaire… I have 1 billion microplastics in my body
Larger Estate Tax.
100% estate tax over 1 million.
Inherited wealth is fundamentally against American values of individualism and self-made hard work.
Agreed!
Individualism is not an American value
E pluribus unum.
*Warning: values may change over time due to societal shifts or manipulation of public consensus. Batteries sold separately
I don’t know if forcefem will help but I guess it’ll at least be good for diversity
