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By having wealthier people become poorer by paying taxes. There's no mystery here. We've been making rich people wealthier with the middle-class taxes (includi

By having wealthier people become poorer by paying taxes. There's no mystery here. We've been making rich people wealthier with the middle-class taxes (including inflation, the most regressive tax ever invented), feeding all kinds of corporate welfare, including, but not limited to, the military industrial complex. It is about time we start thinking about taxing the rich. Alternatively, the rich can keep hoarding their money, pretending not to notice that their first-world economies are becoming increasingly similar to Somalia and that they will soon need armored vehicles and fortified condos to protect themselves from the desperate and famished masses.

moistly 4y ago
But you see, they already don’t live among us, not really. They already live in private compounds with security, and private resorts with security, and gated estate communities with, you guessed it, security. We’re hardly likely to dine in the same restaurants as them, attend the same private screenings and concerts, vacation on the same beaches and slopes. They may make public appearances, but so do the wealthiest in any dysfunctional country: they do not live with us.
iqkznnft 4y ago
I like it how it is now, and I'll fight people like you to keep it that way.
- imtringued 4y ago
- elzbardico 4y ago
  I also like how it is now, I make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, and now I even can live in a very cheap place. And I once thought like you. But then, one day, I figured out that I was in the minority. And I have a choice: I can open the purse now or have it opened by force by the majority someday. Yes, maybe they would end up worse in the end. But I would be dead—a terrible score by my standards. My goal is to avoid a revolution. People like you merrily stride towards it by being wholly insensible and fighting people like me. Ask the Romanoff royal family if they don't think they should have been less stubborn in hindsight.
  - chii 4y ago
    > I can open the purse now or have it opened by force by the majority someday. why are these the only possible choices? Why can't the third option, one where the poor also get richer (compared to their poorer past) through growth, and improvements in tech? because that was what has been happening for the past several hundred years, and a lot of it in the past 100 years. Some people didn't get ahead as far as some others - but the poor of today are still better off than poor of several centuries ago. if you look at countries that have had revolutions that stripped the rich of their wealth, how have they fared today?
    - elzbardico 4y ago
      Well, we have been growing like crazy the last 20 years. But unless you live under a rock, it is clear that now the bulk of the gains are not going to workers. Yes, they did in the past, but the tendency now is of ever increasing wealth and income concentration. Something changed. your thinking worked for a world that is left in the past, now we need other answers.

moistly 4y ago

But you see, they already don’t live among us, not really. They already live in private compounds with security, and private resorts with security, and gated estate communities with, you guessed it, security. We’re hardly likely to dine in the same restaurants as them, attend the same private screenings and concerts, vacation on the same beaches and slopes. They may make public appearances, but so do the wealthiest in any dysfunctional country: they do not live with us.

iqkznnft 4y ago

I like it how it is now, and I'll fight people like you to keep it that way.

imtringued 4y ago
elzbardico 4y ago
I also like how it is now, I make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, and now I even can live in a very cheap place. And I once thought like you. But then, one day, I figured out that I was in the minority. And I have a choice: I can open the purse now or have it opened by force by the majority someday. Yes, maybe they would end up worse in the end. But I would be dead—a terrible score by my standards. My goal is to avoid a revolution. People like you merrily stride towards it by being wholly insensible and fighting people like me. Ask the Romanoff royal family if they don't think they should have been less stubborn in hindsight.
- chii 4y ago
  > I can open the purse now or have it opened by force by the majority someday. why are these the only possible choices? Why can't the third option, one where the poor also get richer (compared to their poorer past) through growth, and improvements in tech? because that was what has been happening for the past several hundred years, and a lot of it in the past 100 years. Some people didn't get ahead as far as some others - but the poor of today are still better off than poor of several centuries ago. if you look at countries that have had revolutions that stripped the rich of their wealth, how have they fared today?
  - elzbardico 4y ago
    Well, we have been growing like crazy the last 20 years. But unless you live under a rock, it is clear that now the bulk of the gains are not going to workers. Yes, they did in the past, but the tendency now is of ever increasing wealth and income concentration. Something changed. your thinking worked for a world that is left in the past, now we need other answers.