Interview with Paul Graham

Re:Interview with Paul Graham by aguyfromnb on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @07:17AM (#22483076)

>Yes, they earned their money legally.

And if Warren or Sanders are elected, they are going to take some of that money...legally.

>they already paid tax on said money in the country they earned them.

From what I gather, "the country" doesn't believe it's enough.

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Re:Interview with Paul Graham by nickpp on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @07:24AM (#22483106)

Sure. You can only do that once, though. Others have tried that throughout history, with the same previsible result: see Venezuela and other socialist "utopias".

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Re:Interview with Paul Graham by hef19898 on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @08:41AM (#22483625)

Venezuela was brought down by rampant corruption more then anything else. Socialism has nothing to do with it at all.

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