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> But in a free society you get to own stuff. Not society or the government, you. Only if the society or government decides to enforce a particular notion of p
by somewhereoutth 4y ago
> But in a free society you get to own stuff. Not society or the government, you.
Only if the society or government decides to enforce a particular notion of property rights.
> If you have wealth the someone generated or traded that wealth for/to you. You exchanged that wealth fairly for something.
"Hemedti owns, along with other family members, a gold mining company that operates in lands he seized in Darfur 2017. In 2018, Bashir gave Hemedti permission to mine and sell gold, and operations extended to other gold rich areas in outside Darfur in the south of the country. The gold was exported, according to a 2019 Reuters investigation, circumventing capital controls, and even sold to the Sudanese central bank for a preferential rate. The yield was allegedly used to enrich Hemedti and his family,"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/20/sudan-outsider-hemedti-mohamed-hamdan-dagalo-leader-militia-army-war-conflict https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/20/sudan-outsider...
Most fortunes are made by theft, deceit, luck, and bloodshed, not by hard work.
> once weath has been obtained and taxed lawfully.
So let's tax all assets above 2MM at 100%.