• Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    I finally obtained a numerical value. 50$ mil and up is considered the ultra rich and the benchmark for a wealth tax.

    100mil and up would be more worth it be cause you were to do a fixed rate of 7% more than the general population redistribution would seem more worth it. Taxing the super duper rich 3% could’ve worked in 2009.

    I still think to myself : There’s people out there with all the money in the world… People who have the ability to better society and instead they just do shit like donate a wing for tax write offs and if there’s no tax write-off or passive income for 20 years there’s no point to those people.

    You know what, I looked at my fiancé sometime at the beginning of last month and I said to her: " If I had that kind of money if I had trillions of dollars to just piss away, I would buy up so many old hospitals and make them functional. I’d find all the people I’ve wronged and I’d build trusts for their kids to go to college and give them 5 million each to do whatever the fuck they want with, buy a house, invest whatever they want.

    I would donate a fuck load to every special needs school, I would overhaul my home city, I would overhaul the one I live in, I would put so much back into the lives of those that matter to me and others.

    And it’s crazy that there’s people out there with nearly all the money in the world and they won’t help anyone but themselves."

    She looked at me with her eyes wide with a smile, that like that of you son of a bitch you would too kind of smile.

    In that moment after I said all of that it made me realize: THAT’S PART OF IT!!! FUCK!!! There’s people with nearly all the money in the world and will never have to worry about anything for generations to come unless they choose to indulge in a different lifestyle than what they grew up with and they choose to just never put any of it back into society.

    Well fuck that! , maybe they should be forced to give back some of their wealth back into society to better the planet instead of just keeping it all for themselves.

    I ultimately understood wealth redistribution after saying there’s people with nearly all the money in the world and they choose to not help a soul.

    • thinkingofyouihaveananxietydisorder@quokk.au
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      2 hours ago

      why do we let them keep defiling earth with their caustic presence? they’re vile. they will never do anything for another person. why allow them in society? why allow them any power? any protection for their possessions? that’s real resources that could go to building schools and hospitals.

      • Smoogs@lemmy.world
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        8 minutes ago

        imagine reading how taxes work.

        dont do it.

        just imagine it.

        and then keep posting these questions online.

      • Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world
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        1 hour ago

        The real resource they have is their money. Other than that it’s all stuff they buy with their money to be able to have assets to hold their wealth and I don’t mean just mansions I mean paintings, jelwery, antique and vintage furniture of value. Clothing that needs to be stored a certain ways, wines and collectable foods, historical documents of value, historical artifacts in general…

        Things that we would never even think of is what they hold their wealth in which is why they use trusts and company holdings and offshore bank accounts so they’re not holding their full assets and net worth.

        Like that one painting that they all say is worth 20 mil, is that 20 mil that’s not in their bank account but is always obtainable through auction. It makes you less of a target if your wealth is spread and diversified.