Your "unpopular opinion" is the core belief of most people on this network
We can actually, just get rid of the concept of money and live the post scarcity life.
... why tax them when you can just luigi them, redistribute their stolen riches and nationalise or erase their businesses?
That opinion is only unpopular among pieces of shit.
Not unpopular
The language around it needs to be more focused though
Wealth tax is the mechanism this needs to occur, taxing income doesn't touch these people
Every, say, month, we take the, say, 50 people with the highest average wealth for the month, publicly execute them, and disperse their assets. Put a lower limit on it (e.g. 50 million). Make it a race to the bottom.
Definitely. I really hate it when people think taxing rich is taxing their income. Most of them don't have income, they have assets. We need to tax assets
I don't think this is an unpopular opinion, especially on Lemmy.
It is not unpopular, but it is not talked enough either. It was a good idea to pop it up again
It is not unpopular
This is the unpopular opinions community. This post directly conflicts with the purpose of this space.
it is not talked enough
My brother in Christ, do you not look at the front page even semi-regularly? The top 2 things that are constantly being discussed are how the rich and powerful abuse the rest of the world and how to deal with said rich and powerful, either through higher taxes or higher guillotines.
On my Lemmy it's about 50% of the posts I see.
Yes! From my perspective, taxing the rich is essential to ensuring we don't have a class if people above the law. What we are learning in the Epstein files (at a minimum) is that money and power can insulate a person from accountability. I'd like to see that class taxed until it doesn't exist.
How is this an unpopular opinion
Tha's kinda a popular opinion on lemmy
Just killing them also works
See that's the problem with speculative wealth.
We're actually far better off enslaving the billionaires.
(This is a dark joke about capitalism).
something's got to give one way or another
You are totally correct in identifying that the ruling class are the source of our problems, so a big thumbs up for that! Sadly, however, taxing the rich is simply not enough to solve our problems. Only abolishing capitalism can do that. The rich are too entrenched for any reforms under capitalism to actually dislodge them from parasitically being attached to our society.
So the problem is the ruling class and we're going to fix it by taking money from the ruling class and giving it to the ruling class? Good luck.
You are right, taxing them and giving to the people, that's what should happen, but i dunno how that will happen
In my opinion tax isn't the answer at all. Tax is theft, specifically extortion i.e. "give me that, or else".
We have to stop them becoming rich in the first place, which means undoing capitalism as their wealth is stolen from the rest of us as profits.
If you're interested in understanding more here's some nice reading.
Respect for being open minded!
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