Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
by diffeomorphism on Thursday July 30, 2020 @02:35AM
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Also absolutely wrong. The fact that it stops scaling at millionaires would only be worthwhile discussing if a large share of the population were billionaires.
"This tax works great for 99% of the population, but there are some billionaires that should be taxed higher" is more of an endorsement than a counterargument.
Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
by LordDragonfang on Thursday July 30, 2020 @04:08AM
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Amazons's carbon footprint, 2018:
44.40 million metric tons [1]
Average American carbon footprint:
16 tons [2]
Now, I'm sure there's some inaccuracy here, and it's a bit of a stretch to say Bezos is personally responsible for all of Amazon's emissions, but he's pretty clearly in the same order of magnitude as having a million times the carbon emissions of the average American.
[1] https://d39w7f4ix9f5s9.cloudfront.net/26/7f/e1693ffc45db88d8...
[2] https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/carbon....
Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
by ghostwriter on Thursday July 30, 2020 @07:39AM
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Amazon literally serves those average americans, why the carbon footprint is on Amazon's account? It would hardly produce any footprint if there were no people ordering stuff.
Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
by heavyset_go on Thursday July 30, 2020 @12:06PM
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Amazon serves Amazon's board and shareholders. Also, many Americans are priced out of Amazon entirely, as it is cheaper to shop elsewhere.
Jeff Bezos, worth $150B, or the same worth of approx. 1M Americans, does not consume nor release carbon 1M times more than an average American.
Proportionally to his wealth, he's much less affected by a carbon tax.
For the same reason, someone below the average wealth and/or income is heavily affected by a carbon tax.