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> there is no way in which a worker can make a contribution to society that is literally billions of times greater than another. First of all, nobody makes bil
by School-Cotton 5y ago
> there is no way in which a worker can make a contribution to society that is literally billions of times greater than another.
First of all, nobody makes billions of times more than anybody else. Bezos doesn’t even make a million times more than the average earner.
Second, sure it’s possible for one person’s impact to be thousands or tens of thousands of times higher than someone else’s.
Third, the point of taxes is not to change people’s income to better match the magnitude of their contribution to society.
- iso1210 5y ago> Third, the point of taxes is not to change people’s income to better match the magnitude of their contribution to society. The point of taxes is to provide a society where the guillotine doesn't come out. When it does it won't be the Musks and Bezos' of the world that the masses stop at.
- inglor_cz 5y agoThis is a popular idea, but guillotine-heavy revolutions were pretty rare in the Western world, and modern revolutions in general, successful or not, were often a consequence of a lost war, not of usual misery in peace. Losing a war is dangerous for survival of any regime. Peasants' revolts are another story, but too far back in history to be an useful analogy for today. They were also beaten to bloody pulp most of the time.