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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 24 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Nobody should have a right to more than, say, 10 million dollars. Any worth over that, tax it at 100%.

Similarly for companies, tax them dynamically. Ybr bigger the company, the higher the tax. At, say, over a billion dollars, tax it 100%. Limit company sizes to 1000 employees.

This way, nobody is too big, nobody is too powerful, nobody is too rich

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[–] besselj@lemmy.ca 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It takes a lot of mental gymnastics to believe that's a controversial opinion. Most people will never meet a billionaire in their lifetime, let alone become one.

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[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

I like this guy

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Never heard of him. He's apparently going to be the next Mayor of NYC, if you haven't either.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 11 points 2 days ago

For now he's a candidate from the Democratic party

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 days 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.

[–] Octavio@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Yah I don’t think we should either.

[–] tisktisk@piefed.social 20 points 3 days ago (7 children)

What is the other sides' argument for why we SHOULD have billionaires?
Genuinely asking if they have anything tough to contend with or is it just another critical avoidance of theirs?

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[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 19 points 3 days ago

The whole billionaire thing is completely arbitrary. It used to be that being a millionaire was a big deal. With inflation, in a couple more years we'll have trillionaires, if Mohammed bin Salman hasn't become the first one already.

If you make more than most people, regardless of how much that is, you should be heavily taxed.

[–] WatDabney@fedia.io 20 points 3 days ago

And he's right.

By any measure, the exidtence of that great of a disparity in wealth in a society is evidence of the failure of the systems on which that society is built.

It's akin to if you were responsible for caring for a field of crops, and you ended up with a field in which two or three plants were enormous, bloated and overgrown. a few were more or less healthy, snd the rest were weak and shriveled and starving.

That rather obviously would mean you'd failed.

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