There’s simply no problem with people having more money, and once people realize this we can move on.
Housing issues are supply issues exacerbated by zoning and local nimby governments. It can be resolved without income ceilings.
Health care issues can be solved with single payer healthcare or other schemes. Again no income neutering required.
And sure you can fund these things and more with taxes, but no taxation scheme will result in there not being extreme disparities.
Funny enough young Americans waste time complaining about rich people instead of just voting, which would solve most of their issues.
https://archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/1...
https://www.epi.org/publication/swa-wages-2019/
Even with more conservative approaches, wage growth of lower earners is far outpaced by top earners.
https://www.aei.org/articles/have-wages-stagnated-for-decade....
This is hopelessly naive. Whoever you vote for, your vote only matters one day a year. The other 364.25 days are for the lobbyists.
I was directly replying to this accusation that I'm to blame for idly standing by whilst nimbys oppress the developers. I respond that none of that lines up with my local situation, and yet your boogeyman of rent increase is ever-present.
> ... [complaining] instead of just voting, which would solve most of their issues.
You presented "just voting" as a panacaea. You've retreated to the "[single] very particular class of issue" while sounding very triumphant that I'm the fool. Classic motte&bailey.
I don't know about where you live, but I've never had more than one to three opportunities to "just vote" per year. I spend the rest of the time "complaining."
[1]: https://effectivegov.uchicago.edu/news/power-begets-corrupti... [2]: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadian-health-care-system... [3]: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/crea-housing-data-1.6843592
Here's a dirty secret in case you say all the billionaires will run away with their wealth. They aren't worth much.
Bezos isn't Amazon and if he was never born those people would work somewhere and the online store market would be divided somehow.
Billionaires harness labor and capture demand they create little of it then most of the benefits accrue to people who buy things not build things.
The version of it's a wonderful life starring Bezos has him stumbling around Bedford falls marveling that virtually nothing has changed and terminates with him begging Clarence to put him back because he misses his yacht.
There is online shopping other than Amazon.
It’s actually one person having more than literally a billion other people combined, and THATS a problem
Taxing the rich is less about the money, and more about the power it buys.