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Re:Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees by bmitc on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @10:38PM (#31748522)
As always, pick one and deal with it. This whole "billionaires are geniuses and figure out the world's hardest problems but simultaneously can't figure out how to be taxed" shtick has run its course. Of course, no solution will be perfect. That's life and how everyone else deals with things.

There are several ways to accomplish taxing the mega-rich that don't require rewriting the laws of the universe. It's just that nobody in charge, because they're either the mega-rich themselves or puppets of the mega-rich, wants to address it.

Re:Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees by aliswe on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @10:50AM (#31753764)
Serious question, where has this ever worked / is currently working?
Re:Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees by bmitc on Thursday June 16, 2022 @12:46AM (#31762514)
Middle-class folks are taxed at 20-35%, so it literally works all the time for everyone else. Inequality continues to rise and wealth continues to concentrate. This is because taxes that used to work and be in place for the rich are no longer there. The wealthy used to pay much more tax.

Are you seriously okay with the ultra rich living by completely different rules than everyone else? I think it's probably underestimated how much they get away with not paying.

Re:Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees by aliswe on Thursday June 16, 2022 @02:05PM (#31769122)
To be honest yes I am ... I dont know maybe I am a bit royalist in that sense.