frisbird comments on It's not enough to make everybody rich

submitted 9 months ago by Tabooki@lemmy.world to c/damnthatsinteresting@lemmy.ml

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If you took all the money from every American billionaire and gave it away each American would get 23k. Once.

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[–] frisbird@lemmy.ml 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

You could make a UBi with the tax money. You could spend it on singlepayer public healthcare. You could fund pensions with it. It doesn't matter.

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[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

That's not simply distributing the money to everyone like the OP is thinking.

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[–] frisbird@lemmy.ml 1 point 9 months ago

Yes, and even if you did it, it wouldn't help.

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