Sure, but we don’t “need” anything above our basic survival cost, let’s go live on the Savannah and hunt our food again.

For me the problem are those who hoard wealth, who don’t earn a salary but sit and live off their massive pile of accumulated wealth. We need a wealth tax now.

Now that’s putting it into perspective … holy shit

Sure, but we don’t “need” anything above our basic survival cost, let’s go live on the Savannah and hunt our food again.

Straw man detected.

I’m not going to suggest numbers, but think you absolutely need to invest more in defense against states with far right leanings, like the USA. The good news is taxing the ultrawealthy into oblivion can provide all necessary services.

Okay, but Carney is not going to tax the ultra wealthy. His track record so far is cutting taxes, including one targeting the wealthy specifically. People talk about raising military spending without considering that that money is going to have to come at the expense of something else. We talk about the cost in terms of percentage of GDP because it makes a nice small non-scary percentage like 5%. But that represents just shy of a third of the national budget, over double what we just recently raised our spending to. That money is not going to come from new taxes on the wealthy, it’s going to come from cuts to services. Health care being the meatiest place to make those cuts.

I hear you, and i agree. I don’t understand how to achieve it though, a tax on net worth, with brackets starting at 100 million? Wouldn’t they just move their money over a place that would hide it?

I don’t understand how to achieve it though, a tax on net worth, with brackets starting at 100 million?

Implementation isn’t a consideration until society gets serious about doing it.

Wouldn’t they just move their money over a place that would hide it?

Make that a crime. Tax evasion or worse. Jail wealth hoarders if they don’t comply, because they are destroying lives and don’t deserve to play games.

The quote I like is “The difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars is about a billion dollars.”

A million seconds is approximately 11.5 days.

A billion seconds is approximately 31.7 years.

We have healthcare figured out for the most part. The issue here is housing.

Design? Hmm. What system are you or we designing?

There is one that is available but you won’t look at it. Democracy in the workplace is what we should have but again no one wants it.

So again, what system?

You dont live in reality.

Donations from one person aren’t going to do much good. At best, it’ll provide a bit of short term relief. The system that enables billionaires to exist is still in place, which means they’ll just suck up anything that this one person donates, leaving us with one less caring person capable of enacting further change and amoral corporations becoming more powerful.

We need to change the system so that everyone contributes. It makes little sense for any single person to contribute when no one else does because you gain much less than what you put in, but if everyone contributes, then you get the opposite scenario where everyone gains more than what they put in. That’s why taxes exist in the first place.

What is your question?

Society should be structured so that billionaires cannot exist.

Wealth should be redistributed so that a hand full of people aren’t worth more than everyone else.

Profit sharing should be law in all businesses, so that trillion dollar companies are paying all their employees (and their supply chain) enough to make a very comfortable living.

No single individual should ever be allowed to have so much wealth that they can control governments. The fact that we do points to a massive problem in our society’s structure.

There are 101 ways that we can fix this problem, and it’s not going to happen until we actually get serious about fixing this problem.

And by we, I mean the 99.9% of us who are struggling to get by because a handful of people “need” to have every single dollar in existence.

Way to miss the point.

Reread your post and I’m still not getting it. What was the point?

I think that oversimplifies the issue.

I have no problem with a millionaire that has a net worth of, say 3 million

I have a problem with someone having a net worth of 30 million

I have a huge problem with someone being worth 300 million

All are millionaires

Nobody should have a net worth over, say, 10 million.

20 is okay ish, I suppose, but beyond that it’s just not fair or normal

You have 100 million dollars?

You didn’t get it through hard work, or the McDonald’s burger flipper who also cleans houses on the side would have been a billionaire by now

You didn’t get it by being intelligent or smart or scientists would all be rich

You did it through playing the system as it currently exists, and you were lucky

Nobody should have the right to have that much money. Not even half of that.

Hey NDP, enough with the incremental respectability politics. Give us what Mamdani is cooking.

Wouldn’t they just move their money over a place that would hide it?

Moving the money shouldn’t make a difference, though. You pay taxes regardless of where you the money comes from or goes to.

Hiding income is illegal already. So more enforcement and steeper fines are about the only things left to do in that case.