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That shit was unimaginable even before 2024.
These are direct results of the government's failure to govern. The whole purpose of government is to regulate.
Billionaire wealth should have immediately been taxed at the highest historical levels. Now we're past the tipping point and have to simply endure living in an empire as it crumbles around us, while masses of rubes cheer their oppressors.
Thank Reagan for that
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and yet, no one will stop using their services.
They have so much money, the services aren't even where they make most of it anymore. Trading and investing are.
Unfortunately I don't have a viable alternative for some goods from Amazon without a good price increase because local sellers up the price on top of the import fees.
On the bright side, I don't shop there often and it's mostly limited to electronics.
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only way I see an option to not is to live similar to Amish lifestyles in the US, but even then, I assume AWS, Meta and Alphabet can make some money off their existence through satellites and IP cameras
I don't disagree with you and not arguing not to be aware of individual actions. it just seems the situation is more dire than just not giving them our money or data
Compounding interests. I don't think that most people realise how powerful the effect of it is. Anyone can take advantage of it but there's no getting around the fact that the more money you have the easier it gets to make even more which then makes it even easier and this just keeps accelerating.
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Every developed nation should tax these motherfuckers' entire assets at 99%. If they want to flee with all of their money to Honduras or Haiti or something, let them enjoy that paradise.
They couldn’t flee with everything, most of their assets are things we pay to use every day.
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That assumes national borders mean anything to this class. They travel by private plane and go directly from the tarmac to the car. They don't even need passports.
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I mean, the issue is getting all nations to agree to that and making any agreement binding because otherwise the nation that decides to tax them at 98% gets all of the tax revenue...
I'd be fine with just taking them out of the entire system. Like I said, let them live in a place like Haiti if they want to be rich and keep them out of the rest of our lives. Let them build themselves a Dracula castle in Port-au-Prince.
They're not going to go to Haiti though, they're going to go to Monaco or Switzerland or Ireland or The Netherlands. That's my point, for this to work all of the "developed" nations need to agree despite having a massive financial incentive not to.
Why would they have an incentive not to tax 99% of their wealth when that money would literally be going to them?
Because, as I said, if they instead tax 98% of their wealth then all the billionaires will move there and they'll get 98% of a lot more while everyone else gets 99% of nothing. Until a country works out they could get 97% of all that wealth to themselves and so on and so forth until you get down to the sort of tax levels we actually see. It's just basic game theory in the end.
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The nice thing with having a list of billionaires - and trillionaires - is that you have a list to go through when the day of reckoning comes, after the American Reich falls.
So like in 100 years? Well I guess that will be nice.
That's the thing about history. I think if you were standing in Imperial Russia in the early 1900s (or France in the late 1780s/early 1790s), you would have never guessed what was coming, even with the chain of catastrophes that seemed to continuously arise from Nicolas being an self-assured idiot.
That’s also the thing about history, there’s always some dead person to blame everything on while doing absolutely nothing now to stop it
We should be so lucky, we’ll be dead by then. Because it’s going to need to get a lot worse before things change. It won’t be pleasant.
We still have a lot of steps to go. Heck, we haven’t even had civil unrest, let alone civil disobedience. At this rate Civil War II will happen via social network. I guess that lowers the casualties?
Tomorrow will be that round-up in Chicago. That should be very telling.
But it can’t happen on social network.
It can if we just use emoji.
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Don't despair. The last Reich lasted 12 years, and then (most of) the guilty had some explaining to do, and a lot of them ended up with an acute case of lead poisoning or at the end of a rope.
12 years is long. But if you're younger than I am, you'll live to tell your grandchildren.
I plan to die in the water wars, not the civil war.
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