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Re:45 Richest Germans Own as Much as Entire Lower Half by KUcxrAVrtI on Friday June 21, 2019 @09:45PM (#20247538)
>I can't think of any laws/rules/different version of our world where wealth won't always concentrate to the top.

A progressive corporate income tax. Small businesses will finally have an advantage to big ones and there will be no need for captains of industry to lead behemoths the size of Amazon.

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Re:45 Richest Germans Own as Much as Entire Lower Half by RhysU on Friday June 21, 2019 @10:01PM (#20247584)
Wouldn't large owning interests simply control many small operating entities thereby dodging such a tax while simultaneously introducing pointless inefficiency?
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Re:45 Richest Germans Own as Much as Entire Lower Half by KUcxrAVrtI on Friday June 21, 2019 @10:07PM (#20247601)
The efficiency to spend a billion dollars for defending the patent on a black rectangle is not one worth defending.
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Re:45 Richest Germans Own as Much as Entire Lower Half by LeifCarrotson on Friday June 21, 2019 @10:03PM (#20247592)
The owning interest would be taxed.
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Re:45 Richest Germans Own as Much as Entire Lower Half by RhysU on Friday June 21, 2019 @10:40PM (#20247715)
Nope. A strongman tells the underlings to vote their shares as they're told else he/she doesn't bestow extraordinary gifts on the underlings. Tada, oligarchy.
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Re:45 Richest Germans Own as Much as Entire Lower Half by KUcxrAVrtI on Friday June 21, 2019 @10:54PM (#20247745)
You should look up rico laws. They were made for stuff like this.
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