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Re:Billionaires amass more through inheritance than wealth c... by beaeglebeach on Friday December 01, 2023 @01:42PM (#38490535)
Good luck with that in USA.

I'd rather die some billionaires minimum wage security squad protecting his gold plated yacht than let some violent freeloaders take my shit and install some cuban-tier communist hell-hole where there's no incentive to produce even basic grain stocks.

Re:Billionaires amass more through inheritance than wealth c... by wewtyflakes on Friday December 01, 2023 @01:46PM (#38490573)
If you are minimum wage security guard, nobody is taking your shit.
Re:Billionaires amass more through inheritance than wealth c... by beaeglebeach on Friday December 01, 2023 @02:19PM (#38490953)
People with guns accustomed to taking things "out of fairness" or some such... What happens when they run out of rich people to rob, do you think they just stop there? Day one is the rich, day 1000 the dude with a civic and a mobile home on 1/4 acre is looking tempting... Particularly now that almost all the people who knew how to both own and manage businesses have fled and anything that depreciates quickly is running out of parts and consumables.
Re:Billionaires amass more through inheritance than wealth c... by wewtyflakes on Friday December 01, 2023 @03:43PM (#38492088)
Better to be robbed by the rich than by the poor? If you're convinced the world is out to get you, what difference does it make?
Re:Billionaires amass more through inheritance than wealth c... by beaeglebeach on Friday December 01, 2023 @04:14PM (#38492506)
Do you think it's unreasonable to think people are out to get you as a capitalist in an anti capitalist revolution?
Re:Billionaires amass more through inheritance than wealth c... by dgfitz on Friday December 01, 2023 @02:05PM (#38490789)
What incentive would this guard have to keep working?
Re:Billionaires amass more through inheritance than wealth c... by wewtyflakes on Friday December 01, 2023 @03:51PM (#38492194)
So are you arguing we _should_ make rich people poor so they have motivation to work; that only poor people can be motivated to work?
Re:Billionaires amass more through inheritance than wealth c... by somewhereoutth on Friday December 01, 2023 @03:01PM (#38491504)
There won't be any incentive to produce even basic grain stocks if the large majority of the population can't afford to eat. See the Great Depression.
Re:Billionaires amass more through inheritance than wealth c... by beaeglebeach on Friday December 01, 2023 @04:01PM (#38492321)
Life expectancy rose to a multi decade (all time at that time?) record peak during the great depression in US and starvation was exceedingly rare. Even at one of its worst the outcome was remarkably robust against starvation.
Re:Billionaires amass more through inheritance than wealth c... by Moomoomoo309 on Friday December 01, 2023 @01:53PM (#38490650)
The solution is simple: Don't be that rich. If you can manage that, then you'll be fine. You're probably not a temporarily embarrassed millionaire.