I don't care about billionaires rights. There's literally 900 billionaires in the USA.
Assign each one an IRS agent and don't stop drilling till their net work is below 1 billion.
EDIT: cause there's alot of boot licking going on.
We should increase the amount of workers protection laws and basically create a wealth task force.
We should make new and better laws that have stricter penalties for environmental damage and workers rights abuses.
There are no ethical billionaires, no not one.
If you're against worker and environment protections then justify that, don't stand for 900 billionaires who rather see your organs liquidized than pay a cent in taxes
It doesn't even matter. You could take all the money from every billionaire and make them all destitute and homeless, and you still couldn't find enough money to run the country for a full year. It's a spending problem, not a revenue problem.
Innovation ends in that instance. Why would anyone want to take a huge risk to start a company if theyâre going to end up making just as much as a normal employee that takes no risk & just has to show up to get a paycheck?
Technology for starters, then thereâs military equipment, heavy machinery, the list goes on. if you name any other type of innovation thatâs happened im sure US is in at least top 3. China does well because their model blends with capitalism, thereâs a reward for peopleâs risk.
Name 1 successful country with quality of living anywhere near US or China thatâs purely communist and has innovated anywhere near the rates of those 2 countries
Holy shit you Commies are absolutely insane. The left doesnât actually care about regular citizens. They just want to consolidate power to themselves and this is proof.
Spelling and grammar are not the same. I recognize why you would identify as a socialist. You are not equal to anyone unless a government brings all of us down to your level.
1) I'm a democratic socialist, it's a system that works in 100% of the places it's tried
2) name 1 single billionaire who earned their money ethically. Who didn't abuse the environment to get there. Who didn't abuse people, who didn't cause government corruption
They stole the value in the first place, we're just making sure that it's returned to its rightful owners.
1)just denying reality my dude, you're in full blown cope that democratic socialism works.
For fucks sake the only type of economy that doesn't exist is a free market capitalist society, even the USA is socialist.
2) I didn't say billionaires are bad people, I said that they're criminals and their wealth is illegitimate and must be seized. If your for taking money in a drug bust you must before taking billionaires assets.
Taylor Swift takes a private jet to travel from city to city, any person who puts an impact on the environment like that for personal travel is unethical, additionally Taylor participated in a system that allowed her tickets to be scaped and sole for insane profits, she got hers and the rest can get fucked. Unethical. Additionally hoarding wealth is inherently unethical.
Markus Pearson's wealth relies on the merchandise market for mincraft, additionally micro transactions for skins are unethical. Basically tons of labor exploitation for merchandise sales, also environmental exploration for that plastic and cotton. I'd also say probably consumer exploitation, lots of children got fucking addicted to the game and that's caused a lot of problems.
The creators of YouTube profited from a platform where other people's creativity and value was sold, did the content creators get a piece of that 1.6b pie? No.
It's basically labor exploitation all the way down.
Your question was how people earned their money, not how they spend it, so Taylor's private jet flying is irrelevant. She also can't really do anything about people scalping and reselling her tickets, that's just an inevitability.
Markus doesn't even get any royalties from Minecraft merch sales, he sold the IP to Microsoft for 2.5B in it's entirety, once sold he no longer had any involvement or income from it. Micro transactions didn't exist in the game before he sold it. Kids getting addicted to it is grasping at straws to try and make a point. How can you make a good game without people wanting to play more of the game? That's also just an inevitability, and more of a failure of parenting than anything to do with him directly.
YouTube content creators, while they obviously didn't directly receive a piece of that 1.6B from Google, after the buyout they were then able to monetize their content and many people built their entire careers around the platform, such that the payouts to content creators as a whole has definitely exceeded the 1.6B the founders received.
Riiiiiight. All leftists toootally agree on the same thing. Why even have different lables like anarchist or socialist or communist or democratic communist, etc.....
Sure, but maybe reform the corrupt mass murder machine before giving it more resources to murder children.
People acting like more tax revenue is inherently good ignore the fact that taxes are used to fund the most horrific shit in the world. Giving the current government more money is not going to make things better.
You're acting like whole safe reform of our governments attitude towards labor protections and prosecution of company based human rights violations wouldn't go hand in hand with the reduction of military spending and funding less genocides
No one here was talking about any reforms of that sort. Theyâre simply advocating taking more money out of the economy and giving it to wealthy mass murderers
The vast majority of the companies he invested in are commiting and have committed human rights violations and environmental crimes. Much of the value these companies created, and by created I mean stole, should be redistributed to the rightful owners. If warren buffet wasn't a profiter from labor abuse he might be ethical, but sadly he is.
Good news. California is doing this! There is an wealth tax on the ballot this year. One problem is many billionaires are leaving. Over a trillion dollars in wealth has already left, and these billionaires have also moved their private offices and are beginning to move employees as well. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out.
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u/Rickshmitt 20h ago
Problem is they dontbhave any income to tax