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Ive often seen individuals on the left talking about how billionares shouldnt exist etc., but when probed on how that could be accomplished the answer is usually just taxes or guillotines. I dont think either is great.

What if instead, corporations were made to be unable to be sold or owned. Initially theyre made to default to popular election for their board, and after that they can set up a charter or adopt a standard one, ratified by majority vote of their employees.

Bank collapse would probably follow, how could that be remedied? Maybe match the banks invalidated stocks with bonds?

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

unable to be sold or owned

So what incentive is there to start a company? Who funds it? People are expected to start a company, take all the financial risk, for what exactly?

People being billionaires is not the issue people like to think it is. Public servants becoming millionaires by trading and taking bribes/kickbacks and cushy jobs upon leaving politics is the problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Billionaires are definitely a problem. Corrupt public servants are also a problem. We can admit there is more than one problem.

I don't think outlawing the existence of stocks fixes things though.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Billionaires aren’t a problem though. Corrupt politicians being bought by billionaires is a corrupt politician problem, not a billionaire problem.

What problems do billionaires cause by themselves, not via influencing people who shouldn’t be influenced?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The obscene concentration of wealth is bad for the stability of the country. The existence of billionaires is a policy failure. And there's no world where they exist without them being able to influence politicians, rules against it or not. You can't just exclude one of the biggest drawbacks of their existence from criticism

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So you agree the problem is really politician corruption, not billionaires.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Blatantly, no. Learn to read. Holy shit

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If politicians weren’t corrupt, what problems do billionaires cause?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I already answered this, you chose to ignore it. I will not repeat, as you're not arguing in good faith.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

You didn't actually answer it though. Are you arguing in bad faith?

The obscene concentration of wealth is bad for the stability of the country.

How?

The existence of billionaires is a policy failure.

How?

And there’s no world where they exist without them being able to influence politicians

There is though - the world where politicians aren't corrupt.

If all of the issues with billionaires come down to politicians being corrupt then the problem isn't billionaires, it's corrupt politicians like I said. Billionaires aren't the only ones that can bribe/influence corrupt politicians.