Shopify CEO draws criticism for apparent support of giving wealthy more voting power. Just more ridiculous by the day.

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[–] 58 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Lol. Like they don't already have more voting power.

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  • [–] 32 points 3 months ago

    Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    Cool, as long as we’re moving away from one person, one vote, I say we should give billionaires zero and everyone else a hundred. Or we could do it by net worth (ending at 0, no fuckery with debt so that millionaires are poorer than hobos) so that the people the most fucked over get the most say on what should change.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I say we make it a felony with a mandatory minimum 20 year sentence to even be a billionaire.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Or we could, hear me out here, just have a sensible tax code?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    This is my vote. I don't know why the tax rate stops at 50%. Making your second million is easier than your first million, you should take home less of it. IMHO it should approach 100% as you make more and more. And the more money that you have the less valuable it is to you so we can put it to better uses for the society.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Because the majority of wealth in the wealthy, is not derived by income, but by equity.

    We need tax reform, not fiddling with the rates, so schemes like buy, borrow, die don't allow them to bypass taxes altogether.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Nah, addicts shouldn't be put in jail. Billionaires are just addicted to money hoarding and should go to mandatory rehab.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago*

    At a cost of 15% of their net worth per day, 1 week minimum stay. At day 7 they'd still have $320M left if they started with exactly $1B. Probation is your net worth must not climb more than 10% higher than it was when you were released or else another 7 days. If you can maintain <$100M for 10 years your probation is lifted, but your record stays. Future convictions increase the minimum rehab stay by 7 days each.

    Rehab is them having to watch shows all day about all the poor people getting their money and what they're doing with it. They can even sit in a comfy chair and be served nice food while they do it.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago*

    This isnt going to work out like you imagine....

    One billionaire with zero votes can just post some AI disinfo and sway 100 idiots who now have 100 votes...

    People routinely vote against their own interests, and poor people hurt themselves the most...

    I mean, temporarily embarrassed millionaires....

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    This piece of shit has a very punchable face and I for one would love the honour to punch it, repeatedly.

    Oligarchs of all shapes and sizes can fucking die. They bring nothing of value to humanity, well I guess they all have punchable faces.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I support taking away his money

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    [–] 11 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    I think it's funny how all companies immediately shifted from customer-facing to business and wealthy investors as their new customers. They don't care about us at all, only that their stock goes up. A massive amount of former consumers are effectively broke, so businesses are relying on each other to boost their stocks. Not sure how that plays out long-term.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Glad I never have, and now for sure never will, used Shopify.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    Just saying it out loud now.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    This isn't news, the Shopify CEO supports Canada joining the US.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    Just common sense innit? You've got more money, you get more votes. It's practically a law of nature. Trying to enforce some other system would be going against the natural order of things. It's the best way to maximise shareholder value.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I have an idea. How about world put all wealthy people in one small country for wealthy people. If you cross certain wealth you are put into this country that you can't escape. There are not other people there and you need to manage all your life only with wealthy people around. There will be no import and no export from this country, no currency exchange but cameras all over the place so we can all see how wealthy people are capable to manage.

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  • [+] -7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)