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Re:Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working by pmarreck on Saturday March 01, 2025 @12:28PM (#43221473)
> a fair piece

Who defines what is “fair”? If it’s people, people are imperfect AF and centralized planning economies tend to fail spectacularly.

I would agree that a system can be unfair, but what changes to the system are sustainable while still incentivizing risk-taking and achievement?

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Re:Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working by arp242 on Saturday March 01, 2025 @03:12PM (#43223174)
No one mentioned centralised planning until you brought it up yourself. This is just boring red-baiting.
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Re:Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working by pmarreck on Sunday March 02, 2025 @01:56AM (#43228053)
No. If you bring up what is “fair” in a given economic system, there are only 2 options: Prices set by the system/economy, or prices set by people. Why should I leave out the latter? I’m not trying to red-bait anyone since even in the US capitalist system, prices are sometimes set by humans (see: helium!)
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Re:Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working by eddd-ddde on Saturday March 01, 2025 @12:31PM (#43221495)
Raise taxes to 80% after making more than a million a year? That's more than enough of a ceiling to keep incentives for 99% of the population. And any taxed income comes back to the masses anyway. Of course this depends on having good government programs so that the money is not wasted or stolen.
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