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Oh boy! Can I play too? My system, which I call an expansion of antitrust, requires all people to keep their net worth under one billion dollars. Anyone approac
by amanaplanacanal 3mo ago
Oh boy! Can I play too? My system, which I call an expansion of antitrust, requires all people to keep their net worth under one billion dollars. Anyone approaching that number must give away assets to stay under. If you go over that, you must be broken up, by, say, beheading, or being drawn and quartered.
I'm not married to that number, if people think it should be half a billion, or 100 million, or whatever, I'll go along with it.
- bad_username 3mo ago[flagged]
- dqv 3mo agoOh yeah, uh, sure it's hate speech. It's wealthism. One of the worst forms of prejudice. The wealthy live in constant fear for something that's not even their fault... they didn't choose to be wealthy, they were just born that way. If you're seeing this violent sentiment spill over to HN, just imagine how the general population is starting to feel about billionaires.
- baseballdork 3mo agoHate speech applies to particular characteristics that essentially never include "having lots of money".
- jst1fthsdys 3mo agoDo you think the billionaires pushing policy that causes millions to suffer are doing hate speech too?
- imzadi 3mo agoThe Catan system
- ndsipa_pomu 3mo agoRather than a fixed amount of net worth, I'd rather it was linked to something like the minimum wage (e.g. minimum wage x 10 million) or the net worth of the poorest 10%. There should be some mechanism to prevent runaway wealth hoarders from stealing power and resources from the rest of us.