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Re:Global minimum corporate tax: 130 nations to support U.S.... by 8note on Thursday July 01, 2021 @09:10PM (#27706856)
If you're rich enough to be in the 0.1%, it's not your work that's making you wealthy, it's other people's. More likely, you've inherited that wealth from somebody who's not working anymore.

All the same, if they're still working when they don't have to, they're doing it for something other than money, so I'd bet that they would stay on anyways

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Re:Global minimum corporate tax: 130 nations to support U.S.... by coryrc on Thursday July 01, 2021 @10:39PM (#27707359)
Eventually you must realize the assets, either you spend them or you die with them. We let the ultra-wealthy "spend" them in ways they don't have to pay tax, and we let them pass then on untaxed after death through tax-sheltered trusts.
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