If rich people don't want to be hated and have people chanting "tax the rich, eat the rich", they can simply ...
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Okay okay, you'd have to sell off your houses and yacht and whatever else too, and make sure to donate each month from that massive salary too. But still. You can simply choose to "only" take home 20k/month
@JessTheUnstill Honestly I think Elon could redeem himself if he did something like donate 90% of his income to a good charity.
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@JessTheUnstill Honestly I think Elon could redeem himself if he did something like donate 90% of his income to a good charity.
@hyperreal and 90% of his wealth would STILL leave him with 80 Billion
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@hyperreal and 90% of his wealth would STILL leave him with 80 Billion
@JessTheUnstill If you're doing the math then maybe 99% of his income would make him not rich?
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If rich people don't want to be hated and have people chanting "tax the rich, eat the rich", they can simply ... Not be rich. Take your checkbook, pick a charity, write a number with lots of zeros, and boom, you're not rich.
Or let us do it for you:
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@JessTheUnstill If you're doing the math then maybe 99% of his income would make him not rich?
@hyperreal He's worth like 800 Billion. For him to be an 8 millionaire, he'd have to donate 99.999%
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@hyperreal He's worth like 800 Billion. For him to be an 8 millionaire, he'd have to donate 99.999%
@JessTheUnstill That's just insane. Downright criminal.
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If rich people don't want to be hated and have people chanting "tax the rich, eat the rich", they can simply ... Not be rich. Take your checkbook, pick a charity, write a number with lots of zeros, and boom, you're not rich.
@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange There's this idea behind the opposition to the wealth tax in California that if we do this and tax the rich on their enormous riches, they'll leave the state.
Good. They can go. One of the Google founders already left.
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@JessTheUnstill If you're doing the math then maybe 99% of his income would make him not rich?
@hyperreal @JessTheUnstill if he lost 99.5% of his "value", he'd still be a billionaire.
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@hyperreal @JessTheUnstill if he lost 99.5% of his "value", he'd still be a billionaire.
@hyperreal @JessTheUnstill and if that was a tax, taxing *single person* would allow to end world hunger, set up infrastructure to keep it that way for decades, while also giving and maintaining for every person on Earth access to clean water, renewable power for say refrigeration, and possibly some level of internet access.
Single person.
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@hyperreal @JessTheUnstill if he lost 99.5% of his "value", he'd still be a billionaire.
@viq @hyperreal which is bananas to me. Like I'm undoubtedly "rich" in terms of normal folks. I have a (low) 6 figure tech job. But take away 99.5% ... I'd be struggling even a single missed paycheck. To be so obscene rich that 99.5% is STILL unfathomable amounts of dynastic wealth
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@hyperreal @JessTheUnstill and if that was a tax, taxing *single person* would allow to end world hunger, set up infrastructure to keep it that way for decades, while also giving and maintaining for every person on Earth access to clean water, renewable power for say refrigeration, and possibly some level of internet access.
Single person.
Still billionaire after this.@viq @JessTheUnstill I don't understand how a human being can be so selfish. It's mind-boggling.
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@viq @hyperreal which is bananas to me. Like I'm undoubtedly "rich" in terms of normal folks. I have a (low) 6 figure tech job. But take away 99.5% ... I'd be struggling even a single missed paycheck. To be so obscene rich that 99.5% is STILL unfathomable amounts of dynastic wealth
@JessTheUnstill @hyperreal that's more "whole sovereign country" than "a family" kind of resources
