kvasir476 comments on Real estate titan compares 'tax the rich' slogan to racial slurs

Wealth inequality is killing quality if life. We would like to put that wealth to productive use through taxation and government investments, but setting it on fire (metaphorically) would still leave the average person better off.

If we can't tax it or destroy it, then people will be pushed further and further until they have nothing to lose, and after that, things will get ugly.

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[+] username_1@programming.dev -28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (8 children)

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[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 67 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Luigi has entered the chat

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[+] username_1@programming.dev -26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

Brooother this guy is dense. We are proposing to kill/eat the rich in general. Thats obviously more of a threat than taxes.

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[–] ultrafastsloth@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

I actually agree what I think he meant was that the rich would rather be killed than taxed. Maybe it was just phrased poorly

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[–] Johnmannesca@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago

Yeah, killed just means they're estate gets taxed during inheritance but by that point thay're dead so it's illogical to care. Much more realistic a narcissistic personality grasps for ways to avoid any unsavory changes in wealth status vs literally dying. They aren't afraid of their life insurance policy activating, actually they might even look forward to it in a strange way.

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