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minus-squareBlameThePeacock@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down3·3 months agoThe real question is how. Does any business that becomes successful just immediately turn itself over to the government to be sold off to small investors? Because the top billionaires today all have almost all their value in single companies that they either started directly or built up themselves.
minus-squareBlameThePeacock@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoSo elon is completely untouched because none of his companies are vital and he has no “income” because it’s all capital appreciation? Jeff bezos also untouched… This is the kind of stupid knee jerk thinking that makes all of this discussion irrelevant. You don’t even know how to reach the goal you want, you just feel like it should be something.
minus-squareBlameThePeacock@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·3 months agoI am in fact educated in economics, and smarter people than you disagree on taxing billionaires like that. That’s what you aren’t getting.
The real question is how.
Does any business that becomes successful just immediately turn itself over to the government to be sold off to small investors?
Because the top billionaires today all have almost all their value in single companies that they either started directly or built up themselves.
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So elon is completely untouched because none of his companies are vital and he has no “income” because it’s all capital appreciation?
Jeff bezos also untouched…
This is the kind of stupid knee jerk thinking that makes all of this discussion irrelevant.
You don’t even know how to reach the goal you want, you just feel like it should be something.
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I am in fact educated in economics, and smarter people than you disagree on taxing billionaires like that.
That’s what you aren’t getting.