| Most companies are not AT&T. To cite one European example, in Spain 80% of companies are 1-3 employees. Giving the entrepreneur a tax break is a great way to help 80% of employers. In the US that number might be even higher [0] (99% percent according to that article but we’d have to cross check what “small business” means in this context). Your rhetoric seems to imply that all companies are owned and managed by greedy monopoly-esque despots wearing a penguin suit and smoking a cigar, but reality just doesn’t follow. You should also consider the alternative. Where is wealth generated if not through companies? Is it the government? In this scheme, the government is the company and covers 100% of business. How’s a government different than the closed board of a monopolic company? Or are they just “the good ones” and therefore somehow immune to produce injustice? To me, as you can probably tell, this notion is naive at best. I have no issues with taxing the super rich a lot more. I don’t think anyone needs to be worth USD 185 Billion. However, I’m not sour about it and don’t believe a “revolution” is the only solution. Far from it. We’ve dealt with this before: it’s about regulation and policy. Very incremental. IMHO what makes fairness is a social ladder. As long as there’s a way for the willing, there’s fairness. Any immigrant will tell you as much. [0] https://www.fundera.com/blog/small-business-employment-and-g... |
None of us owe servitude to old debts, contracts, wives tales, sonnets, limericks, hymns, poems, stories.
When the world changes it does so because society decides there are different words to better represent its goals.
Laws are no longer based upon the words of Gods. The rich are not Gods. They don’t represent meritorious effort when they’re inheriting and being gifted wealth with no strings (see Trump admin and covid payouts, it’s still happening under Biden; he’s just less gaudy.)
Why not just logistical distribution of materials to boost communal health, etc.
The masses are already used to only being able afford a vacation every X months. Working off a home for X years.
Why do we still enable a minority to shrug off the same responsibility in deference to old contracts none of us are legally obligated to mind?