• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    10 days ago

    As one Google executive recently explained: “Organizing information is clearly a trillion-dollar opportunity, but a trillion dollars is not cool anymore. What’s cool is a quadrillion dollars.”

    Any exec saying remarks like this should be old yellered.

    I’m saying this being fully aware of what I just said, and I say it because of what it implies.

    It requires massive poverty, massive control, massive casualties, people dying from whatever comes with that level of poverty, just so that a few assholes can brag about a quadrillion dollars.

    Fuck

    That

    Shit

    We need to start hard capping maximum sizes in companies. No company can employ more than 1000 people. No company can have a net worth of over one billion dollar. When a company goes over the met worth, handle it with taxes. When it reaches the employee max, that’s it, can’t hire no more.

    We also need to hard cap personal wealth. Both income and net worth must be taxed in brackets. Nobody should be allowed to own more than 10 million (or whatever is a sane max maybe less, maybe a little bit more)

    The lowest of the low pay no taxes, they have no money to do so. Then the next starts with 5, 10, etc. middle class should pay around 30 like in most countries. After that it goes up and up until you reach 100% for income, and whatever % is required to put the person’s net worth back into that 10 million limit.

    With this we don’t have a single quadrillion dollar company with a king that will soon enough fail, we’ll have thousands of multi million companies, thousands of owners of which some might fail, others won’t. Tax income will be so much that we can quite easily fund a giant social support system, free healthcare (physical and mental, eyes and teeth), free education, universal income to ensure everyone can live nicely

    NOBODY has the right to be a billionaire, it is not a right, it is not a privilege, it should be forbidden and the very fact that it’s not is a cancer on humanity.

    This “quadrillion” asshole is a clear and present danger to humanity, it’s the seed of a cancer that will destroy us all.

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      10 days ago

      None of your proposals would work for long, they only touch symptons of the real problem. We should be dismantling capitalism. It’s the system itselft that allows the massive unequality we see around us, and it’s by design.

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        12 hours ago

        Bullshit

        Capitalism at its core that you allow free trading. And. It. Has. Been. Successful. Capitalism is what killed the USSR by sheer force.

        The problem arises when it’s not controlled at all. Apply those rules well and you get a powerhouse generating huge progress for everyone and the taxes and all will be able to pay for the social security network on top of that ensuring nobody gets left behind

        You can go to communism Island if you want and suffer under economic mismanagent, bit I’d rather have capitalism, thank you

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      10 days ago

      Any exec saying remarks like this should be old yellered.

      And their offspring if they grow up to be the same or worse.