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Extreme taxes on luxury physical goods? How can these goals be reached?

• defrost 3y ago
  ^F on the document: https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/44901/Global-Resource-Outlook_2024.pdf https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/44901/... returned no hits on "luxury" and 16 hits on "taxes", eg: For several decades, international organizations, scientists and civil society actors have pleaded for the phasing out of environmentally harmful taxes and subsidies, unsustainable spatial planning practices and so on. The thrust of the argument presented is that: We should not accept that meeting human needs has to be resource intensive and we must stop stimulating extraction based economic success. This report demonstrates that compared to current trends, it is still possible to reduce resource use while growing the economy, reducing inequality, improving well-being and dramatically reducing environmental impacts. and there are entire chapters putting forward that case. Pages 17 and 18 (labelled as pages xiv and xv) outline nine key message points.
• forgetfreeman 3y ago
  Short of a global scale revolution every bit as bloody as the French or Communist revolutions, they can't be reached. Consider, you're talking about eliminating the bulk of luxury/prestige consumption. This threatens the fortunes of most if not all of the richest individuals and organizations on the planet. History has made pretty plain what happens when you make the money sad and don't have armed contingencies in place to deal with the inevitable backlash.