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Re:We shouldn’t push a positive mindset on those in poverty by iso1210 on Saturday February 19, 2022 @01:17PM (#30399164)
> Third, the point of taxes is not to change people’s income to better match the magnitude of their contribution to society.

The point of taxes is to provide a society where the guillotine doesn't come out. When it does it won't be the Musks and Bezos' of the world that the masses stop at.

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Re:We shouldn’t push a positive mindset on those in poverty by inglor_cz on Saturday February 19, 2022 @04:33PM (#30400721)
This is a popular idea, but guillotine-heavy revolutions were pretty rare in the Western world, and modern revolutions in general, successful or not, were often a consequence of a lost war, not of usual misery in peace. Losing a war is dangerous for survival of any regime.

Peasants' revolts are another story, but too far back in history to be an useful analogy for today. They were also beaten to bloody pulp most of the time.

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