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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I cannot see why anyone should ever have more than 10 million dollars. How much is the billionaire's fair share? Enough to bring them down to 10 million.

We could quibble on 10 million. Maybe it should be 1 million. But that is a separate end less interesting question.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

10 million dollars is not as much wealth as it was ten years ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It's still enough to live off the interest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Isn't that the point? If I wrote 2 or 3, people could talk about absurd land prices in San Francisco or medical emergencies for five of their children simultaneously. But when we are talking about 10, it's pretty hard to come up with a plausible hypothetical situation where the money is actually necessary, ever. I'm not questioning your ability to do craft such a hypothetical, but I am questioning your ability to do so while keeping a straight face.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

Agreed. It's also a question of power: no one should have enough money to amass that much power. It's barely an exaggeration to say that the Koch brothers bought themselves a political party and doomed the entire planet to climate catastrophe. No one should have that much money.