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• mustlovehuskies@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Problem with that is it just transfers the money to the government, which is an own-goal for the people - look how it’s being used now, that’s how it’ll be used with any added tax. Trusting the government is just as foolish as trusting corporations or billionaires - and that goes for any government, honest people don’t become politicians. Going about it by way of tax just transfers power to the political system even more.

  For the people to have any power the government needs to have reduced power. The best way to address billionaires is to address the system that creates them - by constraining capitalism enough to prevent monopolies and concentration of executive power in any one person or small group.

  All corporations over 1,000 employees should be required to be employee owned co-ops with executive compensation approved by 70% employee vote.

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  • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    no, trusting the government is not as foolish as trusting billionaires. I won’t take this Reagan crap. the government is about a million times more useful than all billionaires have ever been combined. and it has to answer to the people. billionaires don’t. unless you start making them answer.

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    • mustlovehuskies@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I take it you’re ok with $200bn to another pointless war in the Middle East? Countless billions wasted? Politicians answer to the people in theory, but not practice.

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      • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        yes because that’s what i said. sorry to burst your bubble but they do answer to the people. this is literally what the people voted for. the fact that they didn’t think about it much doesn’t change this.

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  • Aarkon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Want to upvote and downvote this at the same time

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