haverholm comments on our very good EA billionaire friends are funding the Abundance movement

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[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 16 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Glad to see the superrich don't object to paying large sums to build society. So we can just start wealth taxing them instead, that'll be fine right? That way they don't have to spend their valuable time cherrypicking initiatives and charities.

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It is just a case of efficiency, they are good at making money, not spending it, so we should tax them.

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[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago

If they were so good at investing money in the public good then how come they still have so much money and so much time to bitch about unhoused people?

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[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 6 points 3 months ago

"It's the only way to be sure," as Ellen Ripley said.

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[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

From the billionaire's perspective, confiscatory taxation should be preferable to guillotines.

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