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This is one of the arguments against Basic Income and related topics i find most biased against lower income workers. If your goal is to make everyone work, yo
by conanbatt 13y ago
This is one of the arguments against Basic Income and related topics i find most biased against lower income workers.
If your goal is to make everyone work, you have to fight wealth accumulation.
You sold a company for 5B$ ? doesnt matter, you should be taxed until you have almost no money, so you have to keep working.
Your parents made rich money? tough luck. No inheritance. Get to work.
But I have yet to hear someone propose something like that. Why would you put higher strains on poor people than on rich ones.
My 0.02$
- paulhauggis 13y ago"If your goal is to make everyone work, you have to fight wealth accumulation." Wealth accumulation is the reason businesses thrive in the first place. Without businesses, who is going to provide jobs for those lower-income workers? The government? "You sold a company for 5B$ ? doesnt matter, you should be taxed until you have almost no money" If I knew this would happen, I would most likely move my company overseas. There is a reason IKEA is a non-profit organization and many actors renounce their European country citizenship. "Your parents made rich money? tough luck. No inheritance. Get to work." Now you just sound bitter and jealous.
- phaemon 13y agoAnd you sound foolish. He wasn't proposing any of these things. Read his post again, this time properly.
- paulhauggis 13y agoYou are a perfect example of why I mostly stay out of HN discussions.
- phaemon 13y agoBecause when you call people "bitter and jealous", based on misreading their post, you get called "foolish" in return? Stop whining.