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How is it more precise to say something the commenter didn't say and, probably, wouldn't say?
by projektfu 6y ago
How is it more precise to say something the commenter didn't say and, probably, wouldn't say?
- dalbasal 6y agodon't feed
- komali2 6y agoIs that a troll? I assumed they were just a fervent capitalist apologist.
- VRay 6y agoThey're both trolls, man. This is looking like a Reddit thread "BILLIONAIRES BAD" "JOB CREATORS" "BILLIONAIRES BAD!!!!" "__JOB__ GO BYE BYE"
- kuzimoto 6y agoCapitalism has done more to lift people out of poverty than any other system in human history, so it's got that going for it.
- vidarh 6y agoMarx wrote something almost to that effect in the Communist Manifesto. About half the first chapter is intense praise for the advances brought by capitalism.
- kwhitefoot 6y agoBillionaires are not necessary for capitalism.
- kuzimoto 6y agoI never said they were. I believe they are merely a symptom of it.
- eanzenberg 6y agoI wouldn’t be surprised if billionaires are a one of the many reasons people want to immigrate to America.
- pinkfoot 6y agoActually that title belongs to the CCP.
- kuzimoto 6y ago"China's Economic Success Proves the Power of Capitalism"[0] My point still stands. [0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/rainerzitelmann/2019/07/08/chinas-economic-success-proves-the-power-of-capitalism/#bb18a713b9d7 https://www.forbes.com/sites/rainerzitelmann/2019/07/08/chin...
- eanzenberg 6y agoDo billionaires exist in a vacuum, creating their wealth away from society? What does it mean to be a billionaire? Physically, it means they’ve affected a large amount of the population. For the better, or worse? Take away the companies the billionaires created and imagine life.
- istjohn 6y agoYou seem to assume that billionaires would throw a hissy fit and go off grid to Galt's Gulch if they faced a wealth tax. But maybe they are motivated by more than the concrete purchasing power of their wealth. If they are motivated by the desire to build, they would still build. If they are motivated by the desire to beat their peers in a game of "Who Has The Most Money," they would still compete. The winning number would just have fewer digits. If they are motivated by the power money buys, well, maybe the rest of us are better off not playing that game.
- eanzenberg 6y agoThey would leave, though. There’s evidence of capital flight in high tax regions of Europe.
- weaksauce 6y agothere's evidence of capital flight and offshore tax havens now. they need to tax the movement of money.
- vinay_ys 6y agoTo curtail and equalize the political power of the rich with the rest of world, their wealth have to be reduced to such an extent that they also don't have the leisure to engage in deep politics. Let's say, if 75% of the voting population has < $x and if even 1% has 3x of that, then they basically have 2x leisure buffer over everyone else to be more politically engaged and influence the small number representative politicians, to manipulate the narrative for the rest of the 75% etc.