LA put a mansion tax on homes selling over a certain value and I was told it would crash the market…spoiler it didn’t.

I have this debate all the time in the Uk pushing my leftist ideals and I’m always met with it won’t work rah rah rah. And I’m like well maybe we could try because for the last 42 years of my life of unfettered capitalism things have gotten worse and worse for most people so clearly this isn’t working so let’s just try something radical for 5 fucking years aye.

I’m not even capping but if the greens don’t get elected next election there’s a none zero chance i am going to throw my life away by murdering people of the elite class because the alternative is to just plod along and nothing changes.

I’m doing alright too. But I care about all people and we should judge our society on how we treat the poorest in it. I will fucking die on this hill, just depends how many I take with me.

Their plan is "I got mine, fuck everyone else."

Who is crying that? I mean that isn't a corporate mouthpiece? Just adjusted for inflation, federal minimum wage should be like $35.

Everyone: What if we just throw people in jail for being poor or other behaviors associated with poverty? Surely nobody would choose to be poor then!

Seems they began the process of willfully ignoring this fact in the 1970s, and it’s now gotten to the point where no, they don’t realize, because they’re so divorced from reality they can’t.

That would result in a redistribution of wealth. I think most billionaires would rather live in an Ivory Tower in the middle of the desert than live in a 10-bedroom mansion alongside lesser millionaires in a diverse and prosperous city. They really couldn't give a shit about normal people which is why people like Bezos want to bring in robots to do the work.

But the rich lose control when wealth is redistributed

But then the poors will have more power.

A strong middle class is much harder to rule.

If it gives the poors a choice, the rich can’t have it.

You let those bottom 20% climb out of poverty and suddenly gain a choice in where they work/shop/spend their sudden disposable income? Well that might lead to demands of quality products, equitable availability and pricing, and less money for my cash stack throne!

They’ll ignore the mountain of starved child carcasses if there’s another 100 on the stack.

If you get negotiated down to $20/hour you just gave every body on the bottom a more than 20% raise.

This is such a toxic pov

And the more people who try this, the more it makes said lawmakers look bad. I'll tell you one thing. We certainly aren't going to accomplish it by not trying. So I say let the man cook.

It isn't a promise to raise the minimum wage. The mayor doesn't have the power to do that. It is a promise to push and lobby towards that goal.

For a supposed democracy, Americans really tend to gravitate to a single source of power (king, dictator) mentality.