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We are already at the point where if you want to implement something socially impactful you need buy-in and investment from billionaires because the relative co
by orangepurple 4y ago
We are already at the point where if you want to implement something socially impactful you need buy-in and investment from billionaires because the relative costs of opportunity, living, and relative level of taxation is absurd. We're heading full speed ahead into a new form of feudalism. If you want a good laugh read about the Roman tax system and see how people had it in the old days.
- notahacker 4y agoBut apart from universal education, healthcare, retirement, unemployment solutions that didn't involve indentured servitude and not having our civilization sacked by tribes from the East, what did not living on Roman budgets ever do for us... :)
- orangepurple 4y agoThe "What did the Romans ever do for us?" Monty Python skit is a classic