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Re:Economists Are Rethinking the Numbers on Inequality by empiricus on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:26PM (#21707232)
Did not downvote. But this solution would make the rich try to hide their true wealth, so basically it becomes picking randomly from the first 0.x percent. Also do you agree your solution has zero chances of ever being implemented?
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Re:Economists Are Rethinking the Numbers on Inequality by StacyRoberts on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @05:24PM (#21707875)
They do that now in shell companies and off shore accounts.

No I don't agree with that. Someone may have asked the founding fathers that too. You know the monarchy will never go for independent colonies, right?

Political systems change, violently eventually unfortunately and the goal of a new system is to avoid that.

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