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Forget taxes. The wealthy derive their wealth from capital - ownership of means of making more money. Their involvement with the tax system is chiefly to use t

Forget taxes. The wealthy derive their wealth from capital - ownership of means of making more money. Their involvement with the tax system is chiefly to use their influence to prevent their wealth from being taxed as much as possible - not to profit from it. (Whenever possible, they will seek public investment into their own private projects, but that's not the same as surreptitously siphoning off tax money for their own coffers.)

robocat 5y ago
Here’s a list of the richest people in the world: https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/ https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/
- sokoloff 5y ago
  Notably absent from the list is Vladmir Putin and the entire House of Saud, which calls into question whether the list contains the actually richest people in the world.
  - redis_mlc 5y ago
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