Re:A Company of One
by nameequalsmain on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @02:32AM
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> There's no real practical way to prevent someone from accumulating wealth if they wanted to continue to do so.
Not within a capitalist system, no. There are other systems though.
Re:A Company of One
by gadflyinyoureye on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @08:04AM
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This worked surprisingly well in the communist countries. Look at China and Russia. There has never been a black market where distributors go rich. Never once.
It's called taxes, death, and children. Billionaires only have a single lifetime to spend their wealth, taxed at pretty high rates when they actually liquidate their assets, and it eventually evaporates over a few generations.
There's ~3k billionaires and they're powerful enough that they'll be able to avoid those caps through loopholes, like through shell companies. There's no real practical way to prevent someone from accumulating wealth if they wanted to continue to do so.
That quote about no more billionaires is from someone that cares more about making a point than actual policy.