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That's neolib hoo-ha. Most of society is pay gated, where increasing costs are required in order to maintain your current standard of living or day to day opera

That's neolib hoo-ha. Most of society is pay gated, where increasing costs are required in order to maintain your current standard of living or day to day operations. We're living that right now with inflation and supply chain scarcity. The wealthy have what they need and can afford to wait or shop around. The immediacy of need for a one car household to replace their only vehicle puts them at the whims of a highly fluctuating car market. A wealthy household can afford regular maintenance, more reliable cars, or just to Uber around every day. At scale, we can't buy the computer components we need at a price that isn't a huge markup of what we paid three years ago, which either gets passed on to customers or means we have to limit our service offerings. Instead, we're suspending some operations and waiting it out while we rework some designs. We're about as big and wealthy as orgs get and can survive it.

lotsofpulp 4y ago
> Most of society is pay gated, where increasing costs are required in order to maintain your current standard of living or day to day operations. The cash benefits tax rates can also be increased. As a rough outline: UBI to ensure minimum quality of life Marginal sales tax to tax luxury purchases more than necessity purchases Estate tax to prevent too wide of wealth gap. The goal would be to incentivize income and disincentivize profligate spending. If one does not want to be at the whims of a highly fluctuating car market, then they have to plan accordingly. But in the worst case, the UBI will be the safety net, and whether or not that means they can afford a car is up to society. > At scale, we can't buy the computer components we need at a price that isn't a huge markup of what we paid three years ago, which either gets passed on to customers or means we have to limit our service offerings. Instead, we're suspending some operations and waiting it out while we rework some designs. We're about as big and wealthy as orgs get and can survive it. I am not sure how this relates, but I think this is getting more into anti trust rather than personal taxes. Either way, I think society should reward businesses (or individuals) that invest in robustness/redundancies/resiliencies.

lotsofpulp 4y ago

> Most of society is pay gated, where increasing costs are required in order to maintain your current standard of living or day to day operations. The cash benefits tax rates can also be increased. As a rough outline: UBI to ensure minimum quality of life Marginal sales tax to tax luxury purchases more than necessity purchases Estate tax to prevent too wide of wealth gap. The goal would be to incentivize income and disincentivize profligate spending. If one does not want to be at the whims of a highly fluctuating car market, then they have to plan accordingly. But in the worst case, the UBI will be the safety net, and whether or not that means they can afford a car is up to society. > At scale, we can't buy the computer components we need at a price that isn't a huge markup of what we paid three years ago, which either gets passed on to customers or means we have to limit our service offerings. Instead, we're suspending some operations and waiting it out while we rework some designs. We're about as big and wealthy as orgs get and can survive it. I am not sure how this relates, but I think this is getting more into anti trust rather than personal taxes. Either way, I think society should reward businesses (or individuals) that invest in robustness/redundancies/resiliencies.