Please note that Elon Musk doesn’t hoard money in the same way that Scrooge McDuck does
Man, I wish the world’s richest man was just a cheap skate instead of a corrupt sociopathic nazi fraud edgelord.
That’s pretty much always been an apt description of the World’s richest person.
Yes but he does hoard wealth and assets.
That would disproportionately affect the poor since the money owned by the wealthy is overwhelmingly tied up in other assets, index funds etc
Your right I should have said wealth or assets
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How so? I support the idea of a wealth tax, but I would have expected the billionaires to be getting way above a 1% return on their assets.
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It may bring down the overall numbers, but given the rate of passive growth would still be several times the wealth tax, I see no reason they would disappear or new ones would stop appearing.
Norway as an example has had their wealth tax for over a century. They still have one of the highest rates of billionaires per capita worldwide.
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It already does, it’s called inflation.
Also are you talking about physical money, or bank accounts, or what…?
inflation has little effect on the wealthy. I should have said wealth or assets.
Its called inflation. And billionaires dont hoard money, they hoard assets. Most of the time inflation just makes them richer, as salaries drain out year over year and their stock prices keep going up.
Yes, only already rich should have an ability to use capital. Peons should be stripped of even theoretical possibility to get any capital-tier sum. Only gas and bread money.
I was thinking more of people having what they can use and not horad wealth and assets.
You mean gift cards?
What is this, a CBDC ad?
Do you mean cash, money, or wealth?
Sorry I should have said wealth or assets.
Hoarding is not illegal, maybe it should be, certainly at scale but currently it is not so measures to stop it are not lawful at this time.
Lol. The way you make something illegal is by passing laws. It’s not unlawful to pass laws
Hoarding is not the correct way to think of billionaires amassing grotesque wealth, hoarding is the old couple putting cash under the bed. For the old couple it is their money and their business. What billionaires do is a significant societal drain on resources and should be dealt with accordingly, akin to war crimes.
Better solution: world wide wealth caps. WWWC, if you will
Just your normal tax brackets but with one extra one that says that nobody can be worth more than, say, 10 million dollars. Anything over that goes straight not taxes until you’re below again.
For companies, make it a billion dollars
This way, nobody can become extraordinary rich and or powerful
Nobody can pressure others or influence large groups with money because nobody can
Companies will require a huge amount of small shareholders so no one single shareholder can influence a single company
Governments will get a huge influx of money which they can use for a huge social network with free healthcare, free education, UBI (Universal Basic Income) and so on.
With that, no more poverty. Everyone can have a standard minimum living where they have a nice little home, all the food and healthcare and education they’d need, and if someone wants a little more, they can work a little more, but nobody can get over 10 mil.
It would eradicate poverty, and much of -or most- crime, as money is the incentive of much of the crime in the world
Governments can make world wide investment foundations that can fund independent press agencies with the single requirements that they always try to be as unbiased and honest as possible
Companies can’t have a networth over a billion dollars, so instead of 1-3 giant companies, we’ll have thousands, of not millions of smaller ones.
Companies will no longer have incentives to cheat and or fuck over customers or the environment because why would you of you reached the limit and you can’t earn more anyway? Focus can go to quality and safety again
I see a huge amount of pro’s here with … Well, I don’t even see cons
I know this requires that we implement this world wide, but that would be the only complication. The rules themselves are simple and basic. I know, there are a lot of details that willl emerge that need to be handled but anything is better than the oligarch shit we have now and this to me sounds like a Utopian society, really, or as close as we can get to them
Yeah, I feel like we want constant deflation instead of inflation.
Deflation makes dollars MORE valuable, and thus discourages commerce.
