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Re:Millionaires call for an emergency tax on billionaires by Fauntleroy on Friday August 13, 2021 @11:15AM (#28169927)
Why think of ways to improve society when we could just keep suffering through what we have now?
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Re:Millionaires call for an emergency tax on billionaires by dantheman on Friday August 13, 2021 @11:18AM (#28169970)
Do you not think society is improving? Over the past 20 years we had the greatest drop of poverty ever seen.

Everyday society is improving.

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Re:Millionaires call for an emergency tax on billionaires by tclancy on Friday August 13, 2021 @11:22AM (#28170034)
For whom? In the US, we just had four years of people saying their lives were not improving and they had been left behind.

So they voted for an administration that would keep things that way. The world is weird.

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Re:Millionaires call for an emergency tax on billionaires by ben_w on Friday August 13, 2021 @11:54AM (#28170558)
95% of us aren’t American. And while I would never blame Americans for voting for an American government specifically on the basis of what they promise do for American citizens and without regard for the consequences for the rest of us, the overall effect on the world to which rich Americans can flee has been more up than down.
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Re:Millionaires call for an emergency tax on billionaires by tclancy on Friday August 13, 2021 @11:22AM (#28170026)
It reminds me of Mark Fisher's line that the problem with capitalism is it leaves no room to imagine alternatives.
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