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Re:What to Do About Inequality (2012) by MuffinFlavored on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @10:05AM (#19849422)
I'm not sure how confident wealthy individuals might be that giving up 83% of their wealth would solve inequality.

I'm not sure how many wealthy people care about inequality.

I used to work with a multi-millionaire who thought everybody that was poor just didn't work as hard as him / wasn't as smart as him. He thought everybody should work 2 jobs and go to school in order to better themselves.

Re:What to Do About Inequality (2012) by 317070 on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @10:08AM (#19849458)
Of course. Not that I agree with that idea, but no one should give up the wealth that they built up without sufficient guarantees (and the guarantees need to be enormous) that everyone else will and that it will be used for the greater good. For example, in Western Europe after WWII such taxes could be raised effectively. Right now, governments have more of a trust issue to effectively make policy like the above. But being impractical does not imply it is a bad idea as of itself.