Re:45 Richest Germans Own as Much as Entire Lower Half
by newen on Saturday June 22, 2019 @12:11AM
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Why is it so bad for billionaires to stop working? Presumably, with the wealth cap or very progressive tax, the resources they would currently use to make the next million dollars would be spread out over a million people and those million people might make that next million dollars. If not, then you are saying that the billionaire would make the next million dollars more efficiently, right? Given that concentration of wealth is bad, isn't it better for the million people to make the next million dollars than the billionaire?
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Re:45 Richest Germans Own as Much as Entire Lower Half
by DuskStar on Saturday June 22, 2019 @12:15AM
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Why do you assume that all work done by a billionaire can be substituted with work done by someone else? This isn't always true further down the spectrum - for instance, if you take away enough surgeons, some surgeries just won't be performed.
Re:45 Richest Germans Own as Much as Entire Lower Half
by newen on Saturday June 22, 2019 @12:55AM
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You are saying that society needs certain people to have enormous sums of money to be better (however you define it, apparently you are saying that only these people can do certain things because they have individual control of large amounts of money; but I don't see how it's better than organizations, governmental or otherwise, having control of large sums of money) than a society where certain people are not enormously wealthy?
Re:45 Richest Germans Own as Much as Entire Lower Half
by foolrush on Saturday June 22, 2019 @11:43AM
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Surgeons are not billionaires. Surgeons are trained.
Billionaires are not magical unicorns, and in fact are byproducts of nothing more than birthright, chance, and a culture that cultivates them.