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by vnchr 1740 days ago
So government-forced wealth redistribution?

I wonder if that’s been tried before. Maybe there’s some point of reference for the outcomes of that approach. Maybe it could be tried on a local basis and then evaluated before a complete overhaul of the largest single nation economy?

If I had to guess, I don’t think it would work out very well. Unless you imprison the wealthy. Then their wealth wouldn’t be mobile.

This would be a great idea to apply lean startup methodology. If it works, we’ll, that’d just be…unprecedented!

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Perhaps it could be a form of distributism? Basically we could rather promote legal entitlements to workers in the share of wealth generated by companies and labor.

There's an interesting google talk on this from long ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1PtStipIsc