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A comment on The Lonely Life of a Yacht Influencer. Parent comment

Re:The Lonely Life of a Yacht Influencer by TomVDB on Friday February 15, 2019 @02:44PM (#19174064)
First of all: I'm not taking sides any way or the other. I was simply annoyed by your straw man ways of making an argument. The one where you claim that OP is being fine with having 1000x more money than this guy, but not 100x less than the other. OP never said or implied that in any way or form.

That said: if somebody wanted to implement something like this, nothing needs to be made illegal. It could easily be done with a more aggressive form of progressive taxation on income or on total assets (as exists in some European countries).

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Re:The Lonely Life of a Yacht Influencer by kbutler on Friday February 15, 2019 @11:30PM (#19177074)
No strawman, just an observation that it is far easier to see the excesses of those far more wealthy than us than for us to see our own excesses compared to those far less wealthy. The 10X numbers were just categories, which were inferred based on the various items mentioned (yacht ownership vs yacht club, etc.)
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