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If that was true there would be more protests in the US than in France. I think the exact opposite of that is true.
Sorry, I don't follow. Could you expand?
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There are several founders of YC companies that are self-made billionaires and they post on this very forum. Do you really think they made it on the "backs of society" through "corruption and bribery" rather than building a company that provides value to those willing to pay for it?
If they made their money in a vacuum with no interaction to society then they would owe nothing to society. That isn't the case. They absolutely made their money on the back of society, including the decades of wealthy lobbying/bribery that came before them that has allows them to keep their immoral gains
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Taxes are not equally paid either. I'm not sure what your point is. Do you want to limit wealth? Do you want to ban entrepreneurship? Do you want communism?
>Do you want communism? Yes >Do you want to limit wealth? Absolutely
Any wealth inequality that exists in capitalism is only magnified in communism where an even smaller group of people have both political and monetary power.
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But, could you choose to not be one of the taxpayers to fund UBI? I say if you want to do UBI, add a checkbox on the tax return where a person can choose to donate $1000 to the UBI program out of their tax refund. Let the UBI recipients all have an equal share of the funds collected from that checkbox.
If you don't make any income, you aren't paying for it. You can have your issues with UBI, but "the government could force you to work to pay taxes" isn't any scarier than the current situation, where not working can just kill you. Your opt in situation couldn't be considered UBI.