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[–] 3 points 1 week ago* (6 children)

I finally obtained a numerical value. 50$ mil and up is considered the ultra rich and the benchmark for a wealth tax.

100mil and up would be more worth it be cause you were to do a fixed rate of 7% more than the general population redistribution would seem more worth it. Taxing the super duper rich 3% could've worked in 2009.

I still think to myself : There's people out there with all the money in the world..... People who have the ability to better society and instead they just do shit like donate a wing for tax write offs and if there's no tax write-off or passive income for 20 years there's no point to those people.

You know what, I looked at my fiancé sometime at the beginning of last month and I said to her: " If I had that kind of money if I had trillions of dollars to just piss away, I would buy up so many old hospitals and make them functional. I'd find all the people I've wronged and I'd build trusts for their kids to go to college and give them 5 million each to do whatever the fuck they want with, buy a house, invest whatever they want.

I would donate a fuck load to every special needs school, I would overhaul my home city, I would overhaul the one I live in, I would put so much back into the lives of those that matter to me and others.

And it's crazy that there's people out there with nearly all the money in the world and they won't help anyone but themselves."

She looked at me with her eyes wide with a smile, that like that of you son of a bitch you would too kind of smile.

In that moment after I said all of that it made me realize: THAT'S PART OF IT!!!!! FUCK!!!!! There's people with nearly all the money in the world and will never have to worry about anything for generations to come unless they choose to indulge in a different lifestyle than what they grew up with and they choose to just never put any of it back into society.

Well fuck that! , maybe they should be forced to give back some of their wealth back into society to better the planet instead of just keeping it all for themselves.

I ultimately understood wealth redistribution after saying there's people with nearly all the money in the world and they choose to not help a soul.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago*

    The real resource they have is their money. Other than that it's all stuff they buy with their money to be able to have assets to hold their wealth and I don't mean just mansions I mean paintings, jelwery, antique and vintage furniture of value. Clothing that needs to be stored a certain ways, wines and collectable foods, historical documents of value, historical artifacts in general......

    Things that we would never even think of is what they hold their wealth in which is why they use trusts and company holdings and offshore bank accounts so they're not holding their full assets and net worth.

    Like that one painting that they all say is worth 20 mil, is that 20 mil that's not in their bank account but is always obtainable through auction. It makes you less of a target if your wealth is spread and diversified.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

    It's simple: we don't allow it. They force it.

    By holding wealth they hold power, by holding power they can use coercion and violence to ensure they keep power

    So that unless a large enough majority would choose to fight back, which is a huge risk that most wouldn't want to take, they can just fend off all attempts to remove their power with very little difficulty

    And you may say "but then why doesn't a majority form to fight back?"

    • fear of repurcussion - what if you lose the fight? They will destroy everything you care about in retaliation
    • corruption of state - the state itself is willing to prop them up due to those with wealth using wealth as a tool to rot it from the inside out
    • class traitors - those in power create a mythology that anyone could be like them, it just takes hard work, in so creating people who have no power that are willing to fight for them cause they think it will give them power (it won't)

    If things get bad enough, then all those bullet points will not outweigh the amount of people willing to fight back, it's happened time and again. But in almost every case it's gotten MUCH MUCH MUCH WORSE than our already shitty situation before there was enough will to fight.

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    imagine reading how taxes work.

    dont do it.

    just imagine it.

    and then keep posting these questions online.

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    ...and when you flush the toilet and leave the garbage out everything just 'magically disappears'. Roads, parks, community centers, safety measures basic care for people with disabilities for these things just appear out of nowhere?

    people just do those jobs out of the goodness of their hearts and dont need to eat cuz they are the 'lowers'?

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