Wealth tax or Guillotine?
Hey y’know what other famously French thing will be deadly for rich people if they’re not taxed?
not the onion
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
I like that term. Gonna call it financial obesity from now on.
Fuck off rich asshole. Tired of them acting like they know better.
Tax wealth not work.
Did anyone actually ask him?
wealth taxes and handouts to the people would stimulate consumerism and make the economy run hot.
We should push the trickle up method.
You give all the cash to the poor and middle class, they guy all the goods from the wealthy and they get their money back. Easy Peasy
trickle up method
yep, 100%, i gotta remember that phrase.
Yes, but have you given a thought to those poor billionaires?
Is he showing any of his work, or is he just making stuff up? Seems like he’s just making stuff up.
Also, everyone should look at the “wealth to scale” webpage: https://dbkrupp.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/ . Humans are not good at scale, and this helps visualize it.
yes! tax the poor! /s
Your honor I object!!
Why?
Because its devastating to my case!!!
Western society: “Overruled”
Isn’t he the asshole who said he would help pay for that famous church that burned down a while ago and never gave them a red cent?
“Rich guy says that forcing the rich to pay for their fair share of the costs of having a Society where they can make lots of money, would actually be bad for those currently having to make up for the rich not paying their fair share”
you guys already don’t have musk, trump, bezos, ellison, zuckerberg, trump! All of them choose not to live there due to your repressive laws! Do you want to lose arnault as well! If he leaves he may never become prime minister or president. Do you really want that?
You see a lot of this coming from the rich and their lap dogs. But its never not been bullshit. Pick any country you want in the world. Force Amazon, for example, to pay its full share in taxes. The muppets will say “But then Amazon will leave, taking all those jobs with them!”. So… they would leave a space in the market, right? So someone else would come along and replace them. You can apply this to any industry that tries to scare people with “but X would leave”. Who cares? Theres always going to be someone looking to make money. And being able to make a fuck load of amazon money would be quite awesome. And thats even with paying fucking taxes.
And as for individuals threatening to leave X country, fuck um. We dont need them sucking up all the money anyway.
There needs to be an overhaul in our various societies. Its 2025, and the idea of billionaires in a world where children still starve to death is disgusting. No one needs billions. Hell, no one needs millions. The world, if we could all agree, should limit personal wealth to 100m. Thats it. Once you start earning, through any means, that puts your wealth, in any form, above that number, you pay a 100% tax rate. Or, you can just fucking retire, and let the next generation earn their fair share.
The poor are the majority. And the rich and powerful dont fear us nearly enough…
The muppets will say “But then Amazon will leave[…]"
Imagine being upset that the freeloader sleeping on your couch and eating all the food in your fridge without contributing anything leaves.
His source is he made it up.
Actually it has some factual basis. He’s wealthy, it would be bad for him, he thinks he’s the economy. He just has a big, selfish, ego.
It could actually be true in the sense that producing 1mil things for 1€ each or producing a single overpriced luxury version of the same thing for 2mil€ is a 1mil€ difference in the GDP.
But I’d argue the first is still a better economy than the second. But economists will only like the second one.
These people have the same revenue as a small country, so I can see where they’re coming from.
I still think we should use their bodies as fertilizer.
Source: “trust me, bro”
