If you took all the money from every American billionaire and gave it away each American would get 23k. Once.

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    8 months ago

    It’s not about taking it away to make people rich.

    It’s about taking it away because wealth hoarders actively try to make other people poor and sick.

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    1 month ago

    American’s worshiping of money is vomitive: the irony of stripping rich people of their wealth so they themseves become rich is utterly lost on them.

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    8 months ago

    This is correct. That’s one of the reasons that tax reform is not the solution. There are other reasons, but this is one of them.

    The solution is the abolition of private property and private profit.