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And if you take away their money, then who is going to fund the government and all those wealth redistribution programs?
There are US state governments discovering this right now. I would have thought it was obvious.
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Except capitalism is a zero sum game. The two people you talk about that are multimillionaires are lucky. For each person you know that has made it, there are thousands of people that are equally as hardworking/talented but are destined to slum away for the rest of their lives. All human beings deserve to live a happy life. We live in a world where few have accumulated more capital than they could ever spend in their…
Did you consider that people get rich by creating companies that afford people jobs? That is a positive sum game.
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This is a byproduct of wild wealth disparity, not because the rich are so generous with paying the government.
And if you take away their money, then who is going to fund the government and all those wealth redistribution programs?
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This is a byproduct of wild wealth disparity, not because the rich are so generous with paying the government.
> a byproduct of wild wealth disparity, not because the rich are so generous with paying the government you're overcorrecting WAY too far. Tax rate percentages are much higher on high income people, and THAT is why they pay most of the federal budget, it's forced generosity paying the government. and it's actually the top 20% who dominate income and taxes, but including that extra 19% is important because that is the…
Sadly, I think Craig might have done MORE for society by simply improving Craig's List and removing/reducing the amount of spam and junk posts it allows. I can't claim the changes would be easy to implement, but if they made a FEW small changes the result would be 1000x better. For example if you want to sell something on Craig's List they do some "you can't make this post because it looks too similar to a previous p…
Yeah totally agree! My pet peeve feature list is also better for society than donating $500M to charity!
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> MacKenzie Scott What exactly has been achieved with the billions MacKenzie Scott has given away? She seems to do very little vetting of the organizations she donates to. And upon a cursory inspection, they mostly seem like the kinds of organizations where most of the donor dollars go to white collar non-profit employees that produce little in the way of results, with very little going to needy people. I feel like t…
Not really interested in arguing about whether or not she is giving her money away perfectly or to the best causes according to your (or my or anyone's) standards. She gets credit from me for doing actual philanthropy instead of just cosplaying it for tax purposes, which has been the norm even for quite a few of the other "giving pledge" donors. As far as bolstering government programs go, I'd love to see billionaire…
How are all of the old people living off of social security going to pay the wealth tax on their million dollar homes?
Craigslist is the pinnacle of web sites. True brutalist web design.
> True brutalist web design. Concrete web design? What does that mean? I guess you mean the site is simple but that's not what brutalism is.
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It's still not modest. There's no way in which a $6 million dollar house is "modest". Don't try to launder it through lying with percentages. It's not modest.
You need to prove to us that modesty is an absolute quality. Reasonable people would agree that that is a bit extreme ("immodest") and that modesty is relative. (Try cheap instead of modest to see how this works.) > There's no way in which a $6 million dollar house is "modest". Relative to his wealth bracket he is being modest but not cheap.
That's moving the goalposts. No one said anything about "relative to his wealth bracket".
And I don't think I have ever heard anyone using a term like "modest house" in proportion to someone's wealth. House-modesty is something people generally use to mean "when compared with other houses in the region".
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One objective measure of satisfaction is if you are alive and healthy, hard to be satisfied otherwise.
"healthy" is not objective, either.