Re:California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 da...
by ketzo on Saturday December 19, 2020 @02:29PM
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Christ almighty, the replies to this are extremely upsetting and missing the point entirely.
"Eat the rich" is not about jealousy, as the parent comment explained, and as the replies all immediately ignored.
"Wealthy people create good things, so why are you mad at wealthy people" is a phenomenally backwards way of looking at things. People who create good things often become wealthy in our capitalist society. That doesn't mean that the accumulation of literal mind-boggling generational wealth is somehow a good and natural thing.
I am so tired of this idea that the natural goal for everyone in the U.S. should be to become a billionaire. If you wanna get radical about it, in my opinion there should not be billionaires. I think the accumulation of that much wealth is inherently immoral. No one person could ever, ever, ever spend that money on themselves, so why should it be theirs?
"Eat the rich" is not about jealousy, as the parent comment explained, and as the replies all immediately ignored.
"Wealthy people create good things, so why are you mad at wealthy people" is a phenomenally backwards way of looking at things. People who create good things often become wealthy in our capitalist society. That doesn't mean that the accumulation of literal mind-boggling generational wealth is somehow a good and natural thing.
I am so tired of this idea that the natural goal for everyone in the U.S. should be to become a billionaire. If you wanna get radical about it, in my opinion there should not be billionaires. I think the accumulation of that much wealth is inherently immoral. No one person could ever, ever, ever spend that money on themselves, so why should it be theirs?