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Re:Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees by elefanten on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @02:25PM (#31743734)
That was clearly not the point. The point is there's always someone with a different bar for what is excessive wealth. Chances are that 80%+ of the world population would find your income staggering, the same way you consider a billionaire's wealth staggering.

So how do you decide who's scale to use?

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Re:Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees by panda-giddiness on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @02:52PM (#31744187)
> So how do you decide who's scale to use?

Like the way all other murky subjects are settled, you just decide on one. We don't legalize murder just because some slayings are justified. The existence of grays areas does not preclude the black and white.

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Re:Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees by qbasic_forever on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @02:35PM (#31743888)
We already have a tiered system of taxes in the US. We don't tax everyone 50% because the average US wage is 100x that of a third world country average wage. It's possible to examine only the US wealth distribution and make choices about taxing the highest of the high earners there in isolation of all other earners in the world.
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Re:Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees by Apocryphon on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @02:32PM (#31743844)
Stunned that a community of software engineers is forgetting the top-down approach to algorithm design.
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