Comment on Slavery was abolished, so the rich are now trying to make economic oppression the equivalent of slavery.

Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Amilo159@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You should try visiting Scandinavian countries. While being ultra rich isn’t disallowed, it’s so heavily taxed that ultra rich end up providing more for the welfare than any other group.

  … that is until they move out to Switzerland.

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  • Maeve@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My buddy is in Switzerland doing his phD. He says col there is hella expensive. Do they have a tiny tax rate?

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  • Username02@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh no Switzerland is in shamble 😰

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• RegularGoose@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If we’re not going to abolish money, it should really be entirely illegal for the highest paid person in a company to make more than, say, 15-20 times more than the lowest paid person.

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  • kool_newt@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Reliance on the state to make things right is the fatal flaw. The purpose of the state is not to make our life better, it is to protect the powerful from us.

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    • RegularGoose@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re assuming I’m in favor of keeping our existing government intact. I don’t. It was shit from the start, and now it’s entirely unsalvageable.

      Even if the government itself was salvageable, the US is far too ideologically divided into sides that cannot and should not be reconciled with each other.

      This country cannot and will not hold itself together much longer, and the only potentially viable course of action is to mitigate the harm that is going to happen no matter what by breaking it up in as controlled and peaceful a manner as possible.

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  • gowan@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Japan does this. They get around it with bonuses.

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• KIM_JONG@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lol 1 million doesn’t even buy a house where I live.

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• MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Rather than worrying about trying to tax 1 person heaps (they will dodge it anyway)

  Why not put in place improved worker protection and pay laws.

  Higher minimum wage - say equal to the bottom quartile median house price in the area, mandatory health care even for the lowest paid employees, absolutely no overtime.

  They can dodge this by moving manufacturing overseas… But they already did this.

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• gowan@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Take a minute or two to look into how poorly wealth caps work. There’s a reason why no nation has them.

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