• occhineri@feddit.de
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          When I say capitalism is failing is because for it to work, it need rules

          Because it is unstable. It is much easier to disrupt the system than to balance it in a stable-like state against it’s nature. Capitalism has gotten out of hand and will collapse sooner or later. And no: I am not a pessimist

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      It’s quite easy to get rid of billionaires (raise taxes, they will move away), but it’s a question whether it is really beneficial for the country.

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        You sound like you’re one of the “temporarily embarrassed millionaires” who doesn’t understand that he’s being defrauded.

        You’re a hooker thinking she’s actually the pimp.

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            Sure, we (that includes you!) are extorted into giving wealth to people who contribute nothing to society, but criticizing this is jealousy.

            Just like slaves were just jealous of their masters, right?

            To be slightly less cynical: look up how many empty houses/apartments there are in your country and then look how many homeless people there are. Chances are, the first number is larger. And now ask yourself: is that sane?

            Or even more basic: why are we Westerners fattening, while other people are starving? Because there are some very rich people who profit from that situation.

            BTW: you’re oversimplifying the solution, to just “removing” billionaires. I assume, you’re doing that out of mental laziness, and not stupidity. That interpretation, while being very literal, is an attempt to divert the discussion, a straw man. What is meant here is, changing the economic situation in such a way, that billionaires can’t even exist. No one should be able to accumulate that much wealth, especially not if that wealth is purely extractive.

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    I think the better comparison would be the number of billionaires per capita. Say, per million people. Not that this isn’t a good infographic - keep the overall count. But include the per capita as a frequency-of-occurrence stat.

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    We need an EU wide 100% wealth tay for any wealth over say 15million€. I am willing to negotiate about the second number.

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      So anyone who gets a certain amount of money might as well close all the companies they own?

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        Or give them to the employees or something. Probably 15M is a too low threshold to enforce that but it would work. It would basically distribute the wealth amongst the people who produce it

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        Maybe not 15 million, but let’s say at 100 million you get a dog park named after you with a statue that says you won at capitalism

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    Trickle down economics works like a piñata. Once you break it open with blunt force, the stuff you want starts to trickle down!

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      There’s some bookkeeping sorcery going on there, gotta be

      Also: why’s it yellow? It’s got 3, so it should be green

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      The other 2000 billionaires have their residence in Panama, their 5 parent companies in Seychelles and 10 others in Cayman Islands, which in turn own 100 subsidiary companies in Ireland and the Bahamas which in turn own 1000 subsidiary companies in the Netherlands and Delaware, which own and pay their butlers, cars, yachts and jets and on paper they themselves barely earn enough monthly themselves to afford 1 public toilet visit.

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      Even if we had to use a private submarine for each one it would still be worth it

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      Be environmentally minded please and follow the three R’s. In this case we simply reuse the same guilotine.

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    Am I the only one who finds the color scheme unintuitive? (a comment more suitable for DataIsBeautiful, probably)

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    It’s important to remember that while all billionaires are bastards, some are just evil because they take value they neither earned nor need, meanwhile others got rich off being the family whose spat between cousins was WWI and are actively working to undermine left wing and pro equality movements literally today including conspiring to push bigotry towards lgbt people to distract from the class war

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    Is this based on nationality (defined as: has that nations passport) or billionaires actually living in that country? Because probably many billionaires don’t live in their home country or pay taxes there

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    Portugal’s only billionaire might be Abramovich, who gained PT nationality through a very dubious program