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Why does everyone try and drag the discussion in the direction of a few dozen people who are a rounding error of a rounding error? Legislators seem happy to cr
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
Why does everyone try and drag the discussion in the direction of a few dozen people who are a rounding error of a rounding error?
Legislators seem happy to create fines that are meaningful if not excessive to everyone with a household income short of two well paid white collar professionals (who themselves are a small minority).
- danaris 5y agoBecause they are a very small number of people with a massively outsized amount of power. Allowing them to possess the amount of wealth they do is, by its very nature, unbalancing and damaging to the entire system.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoCitation please. That doesn't pass even a cursory sanity test. The people who are on top of the current system are the last people who want to unbalance, damage it or otherwise rock the boat.