ramblinrose
But this article has me thinking about exploring other options. To try to get ahead of the seemingly inevitable wave of tech debt. Does anyone have advice or can point to any resources for embarking on that particular journey? Are there similar technologies that do it better than Amplify? Anything in between Amplify and learning all the disparate AWS tools from scratch?
He should have definitely included that information in this blog post though. It's more than a little misleading.
The difficulty you are having in parsing out the comparison here is because the comparison is difficult to make (and possibly you are just trolling). How would you word this sentence to make it more clear? It is clear from the rest of the document that what is being compared is not the "wealth tax" on families, because as you said we don't have wealth taxes.
The comparison is what percentage of wealth do families already give to the government through taxes in general. Nowhere does it mention an existing "wealth tax". Most middle-class families build their wealth from a paycheck, while ultra-rich families can do so through other means that aren't taxed. Whether or not you agree that a wealth tax would be of benefit here, it's hard to argue against that point. And that is what your referenced quote is trying to elucidate.