• Phoenixz
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    3 days ago

    So we all need to work 14 hours a day to find the rich?

    Fuck that shit, fuck the rich, I want wealth caps. Nobody should be able to have a networth of over 1 million dollars, anything income beyond that should go to taxes. Everyone can now be the same

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        2 days ago

        Why yes, I would very much prefer a democratically legitimized government to decide on how to use the wealth we generate instead of who’s doing it today: A neo-feudalist class of hereditary billionaires who rule like absolutist monarchs.

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          2 days ago

          So you like for example the president of usa to decide those money? He is democratically elected and his goverment is legitimized

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            2 days ago

            Highly debatable, but let’s assume he is for the sake of the argument.

            The thing is, if people like Thiel, Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg didn’t have the fortunes (and media power) they have, people like Trump would not be elected. This excessive wealth is actively harming democracy, and Trump is actually the prime example of why these billionaires must be taxed into nonexistence.

            But yes, if I had to choose between a rock and a hard place, I would pick the bad elected president to control federal funds until the next election over the bad billionaire to just own this fortune until he dies.