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One of my favorite hypotheticals is that once someone gets to a billion money they get a trophy that says "I won capitalism" and anything over the limit goes to folk who need it.
Knowing greed, people would certainly find ways around it, but a gal can dream
It's inspiring to see Americans are still fighting the good fight.
No wealth above a certain amount should be inherited. There is no moral justification for absurd amounts of intergenerational wealth.
Billionaire says 'I don't think we should have Zohran Mamdani '
Luigi has entered the chat.
Good, I agree.
He has painted a target on his own back though and he should be careful, lest he gets JFK'd or RFK'd.
I don't think we should have the situations and lack of regulation that leads to billionaires, especially as it will likely continue to drain/erode the quality-of-life for everyone else to eventually lead to trillionaires...
It takes a lot of mental gymnastics to believe that's a controversial opinion. Most people will never meet a billionaire in their lifetime, let alone become one.
Nobody should have a right to more than, say, 10 million dollars. Any worth over that, tax it at 100%.
Similarly for companies, tax them dynamically. Ybr bigger the company, the higher the tax. At, say, over a billion dollars, tax it 100%. Limit company sizes to 1000 employees.
This way, nobody is too big, nobody is too powerful, nobody is too rich
I agree with him. there's no morally good reason to be hoarding that much money
Yeah, we probably shouldn't have people who horde so much wealth it negatively affects the economy.
Had anyone ever said yet... Lin Manuel Mayoranda
I hope he goes far and makes a lot of people uncomfortable. Brave man in a moment that needs brave people.
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Not a strong stance to be anti-thief. I'll take it though! We all need to speak plain sense more often.
not surprised considering his other views but glad to see his courage in sticking to his principles against a very biased media landscape. even his rap was fun af. this guy never misses.
If a Billionaire turned comic book EVIL and decided to go rogue.... What exactly would stop him. Most countries don't have the money or desire to do anything
yea you're watching that now
What is the other sides' argument for why we SHOULD have billionaires?
Genuinely asking if they have anything tough to contend with or is it just another critical avoidance of theirs?