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Brilliant, a bank's own think tank suggesting we have additional taxes on labour because capital suddenly finds itself more efficient. Alternatively, how about an annual levy of 0.5% on all wealth, including bank balances? I think there may be something else going on. "Essential" work has been allowed to continue, and "essential" had basically been defined as anything directly contributing to economic output. Meanwhi…
Even better - Tax bank executives who earn more the first day of the year then the average bank employee will earn all year?
Fuck everything about this.
To put some context on this, this is a “think piece”, not an official position of a large multi-national bank: > Deutsche Bank says its research is designed to spark debate around a series of important topics. > Report author Mr Templeman said he'd had a lot of feedback on the report. "A lot of people aren't impressed at the idea of another tax, however, some have seen it as an interesting policy that governments can…
So what is this even attempting to accomplish if it wouldn't apply during a pandemic?
Instead of penalizing change, why not encourage it? When you work from home, you don't put anywhere near the carbon into the atmosphere that you would commuting. You also spend a lot less on lunch, and you don't need to put your children into state-run schools that are really there to function as daycare centers as much as they are to educate. If all of that office space in downtown areas stays dark, and the zoning l…
It's Germany, penalizing change is what they do best. Paying a flat tax on all writeable media to fund GEMA. Having to use Sofortüberweisung for online payments, etc.
Brilliant, a bank's own think tank suggesting we have additional taxes on labour because capital suddenly finds itself more efficient. Alternatively, how about an annual levy of 0.5% on all wealth, including bank balances? I think there may be something else going on. "Essential" work has been allowed to continue, and "essential" had basically been defined as anything directly contributing to economic output. Meanwhi…
I'm curious, which jobs do you define as bullshit?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
To quote wikipedia
"The author contends that more than half of societal work is pointless, both large parts of some jobs and, as he describes, five types of entirely pointless jobs:
flunkies, who serve to make their superiors feel important, e.g., receptionists, administrative assistants, door attendants
goons, who oppose other goons hired by other companies, e.g., lobbyists, corporate lawyers, telemarketers, public relations specialists
duct tapers, who temporarily fix problems that could be fixed permanently, e.g., programmers repairing shoddy code, airline desk staff who calm passengers whose bags do not arrive
box tickers, who create the appearance that something useful is being done when it is not, e.g., survey administrators, in-house magazine journalists, corporate compliance officers
taskmasters, who manage—or create extra work for—those who do not need it, e.g., middle management, leadership professionalsAlan Sugar (British Trump equivalent) similarly issued a demand for people to "get their asses back in the office" after telling everybody his commercial real estate portfolio wasn't performing: https://www.standard.co.uk/business/lord-sugar-offices-prope...
https://metro.co.uk/2020/09/03/lord-alan-sugar-calls-on-gove...
Why not "tax people with a lot of money, to help pay those who do not"?
Or those who gained a lot from the crisis? It's not like they were planning for a pandemic; for e.g. zoom this was simply a windfall. Why not tax that?
Why just tax Zoom — Cisco, Google, and others have meeting products too (I'm stuck on WebEx, eww) so why should they be treated differently?
And if we do that, what does it say that we tax this thing that helps keep the economy from collapsing in the current crisis, punishing it financially, as if we resent it and want less of it?