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it begins with everyone has enough to begin with, and whatever is importent is available as public services. there are different flavors to do this, the current
by anonyfox 4y ago
it begins with everyone has enough to begin with, and whatever is importent is available as public services. there are different flavors to do this, the currently best implementation is to have very high&progressive taxes that fund a strong public sector, that in turn makes people feel safe and allows them to pursue higher education (doctors, teachers, ...) that again are needed for all this.
Sure you can work to have more, but not 100x more than your neighbor, nobody is worth that. instead of focussing on the single one elon musk, try to give everyone access to a good safety net and encourage them to try something, so statistically you will end up with many high-contributors instead of few parasitic billionaires.
- meghan_rain 4y ago> but not 100x more than your neighbor, nobody is worth that. Hard disagree. Have you seen the average human, and compare him to somebody like John Carmak, Andrej Karpathy, etc. They create value at least 100x as big as the avg person
- anonyfox 4y agoAnd without a society around them to support them, they would be unknown and busy trying to survive. Even if many people might not be able to do some genius things, they do other stuff that is ultimately mandatory for the geniuses. So yes, they might produce massively more value, but are still not worth that much more, since they wouldn’t be able to thrive without the others to begin with.
- Canada 4y agoSociety supports everyone in that way, so why should someone who is 100x more productive have to pay proportionally more than the average person? To put it another way, how does society provison more support for John Carmack than it does for me or you?