Can we please prohibit billionaires now?
When your net worth reaches, say 10-20 million, your income taxes should go to 100%. That's it, no more money for you until you get "poorer"
this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2025
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I prefer a prestige mode. Once you hit one billion you get all your money and assets stripped away and you start from square one again. But you get a cool star by your name for every time you reset and start again.
It’s mandatory.
So your choices are start donating a lot of money when you’re at 900 million or to hold it of or enjoy the cool star by your name and lift yourself up by you’re bootstraps once more.
Whatever works, but not a billion, that is already way way too much.
In a society with proper taxing like this, nobody can spend a billion dollars, not even 100 million. Cap it at 10 or 20 million tops
We’d have to adjust it with inflation. Don’t get me wrong I’d love to have 10 million but it doesn’t go as far as it used to. I could see capping it at 100 mil tho
Of course the idea is extremely oversimplified, and yes, you'd need to adjust for inflation
And no, 100 million is way too much. Everyone can already today live quite comfortably with a net worth of 10 million. In a world where there is no such thing as student debt, medical debt, etc, one would need way way less to be comfortable.
100 mil isn’t too much. Cancer can wipe out ten mil.
Again, in a society with an actual functioning healthcare system. See Canada, western Europe, etc...
Oh man what if Instead i get like a cool skin for my social security card
Larry sucks at being an 80–year–old billionaire. Just buy cool stuff and chill out.
Holy fuck, he's 80?
I guess I'm used to seeing old people who actually had to work for a living because he doesn't look 80 to me at all. I hope he dies soon!
His hair is like when you see a lawn that is blatantly astroturf.
Going to outFoX Faux news
Who?
Founder of ORACLE (one rich asshole called Larry Ellison). They are make the most used commercial database software.
You sound like an owl
When I was a little kid I wrote a short story about how an owl and a t-rex were best friends but then the dinosaurs died out. In the story that's why owls only say "who" - they're asking who killed their friend.
Why thank you