• Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com
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    9 months ago

    You missed the point of the exercise.

    What would you do with 50k?

    100k?

    200k

    500k

    1M

    2M

    5M

    10, 20, 50, 100, 250M?

    500 Millions?

    1B?

    Then think how many people could have a better life with just a “meager” 50K… if some billionaire were taxed slightly more…

    I’m not even talking about the vast majority of earths population that would see their life getting better with fifty bucks here and there.

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      9 months ago

      I mean for me anything after the 500k mark is just going to be givin away to people or communities in need. I can live off of 500k and a job for the rest of my life.

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        9 months ago

        Personally I feel like I could do more good with super PACs by supporting politicians who would help those people and communities by forcing my fellow billionaires to also contribute. I don’t like the system I find myself in, but I don’t want to throw myself into the “Yet you participate in society. Curious!” hole.

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          9 months ago

          I get it but I don’t trust the government to ever get better so I would rather give directly to the people or directly pay their bills so they don’t get hit with the taxes from the money givin to them.

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      9 months ago

      You missed the point of the exercise

      I didn’t answer your question in the way your script anticipated. I’m not your student.

      If your script requires people to not know what they’d do with that much money, and then they do, it’s not a great rebuttal to tell them to stay on-script. That’s some Ray Comfort level rhetoric.

      That said, I support far higher taxation of the wealthy. My criticism isn’t of your goal, but that your method is flawed enough to detract from it.

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        9 months ago

        If you didn’t get it, this is the reason:

        You, and many others, use a multiplayer of 1.000 ; million, billion, trillion.

        Those enormous steps exceeds human comprehension.

        So use 2 instead.

        Have a nice day mr grumpy!

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      9 months ago

      Counterargument: think how many of those people could be put out of their misery if the cost of water was increased to $1k/gallon and all other sources of water were removed.