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Well, you start by valuing the humans over the corporations. Weird, I know.

• simonh 9y ago
  How do you value the welfare of the people in those corporations, their jobs and prosperity? You start by valuing having a job and having new businesses and services that put food on the table. These are easy things to take for granted in the developed world with our dynamic economies, extensive social services, free basic education and in many countries free health care. You cant tax people and companies to fund these things if those people don't have jobs, or have only subsistence level incomes or the businesses never get started or are starved of capital so they can't grow or adapt. Countries that tried to do without economies like ours though, such as Soviet Russia, China under Mao, Venezuela and Cuba today, etc didn't do so well. So how do you confiscate the majority of the capital in society that is used to generate all this wealth without killing the goose that's laying the golden eggs? But if you do allow the accumulation of capital so that it can be deployed efficiently, how do you prevent free people in a democracy from using that capital for other things too? How do you restrict individual freedom for people like Zuckerberg while meeting your social engineering goals? Still waiting for even a perfunctory attempt to actually answer my questions with anything other than meaningless platitudes.
  • retailbuyout 9y ago
    I mean, i’m fine with trying for wealth redistribution again. Sure it’ll probably fail, but the current economy is not what success looks like either. I’d rather have a worse performing economy with low income disparity than what we have, without a second thought.