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by sdf131 1710 days ago
This isn’t about the billionaires. What is an immense amount of money for individuals (100 billions) really isn’t that significant for a Western government like the United States.

Seizing Bezos/Gates wealth would have very little impact on the overall health of the country, the government is working with trillions already
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JumpCrisscross 1710 days ago
> Seizing Bezos/Gates wealth would have very little impact on the overall health of the country

Why on earth would one build the next Tesla or SpaceX or Amazon here if this is the attitude the people will take?

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AlexandrB 1710 days ago
At some point during the 20th century financial success became the primary mechanism of measuring achievement. This isn't necessarily the natural state of things - see counterexamples like Jonas Salk or Grigori Perelman. So my question to you would be: why do we only count innovation that results in someone getting fabulously rich as valuable? Why are we worried about losing the next Tesla or SpaceX to taxation instead of worrying about losing the next Hawking to a fatally flawed healthcare and education system?
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