[georgia_peach]

1. fly from one of my 4+ seaside mansions to davos in personal private jet

2. discuss with my fellow swells how many bolotnikovas i'll have to pay-off to point the finger at bubba & the soccer moms

3. get dumb proles to pass carbon credit legislation

4. sell my allotment (in finance/media/advertising/mgmt consulting; didn't need them anyway)

5. +brokerage fees transacting carbon credits for other industries that have to actually produce things.

6. mansion += 1; bonus = not as many filthy proles clogging up the airports, highways, beaches;

7. life is good

[syzar]

This is a good argument for not allowing people to accumulate so much wealth. There should be a cap to how much a person has.

[georgia_peach]

money is downstream of power. far, far downstream. shuffle the money around, they'll win it all back +interest in less than a generation. eliminate the money entirely, they will change their operations over to a different status marker, which will become the de-facto currency in-turn. contrary to the marxist lie, there is no political answer--especially in a democracy. the only effective counter is the personal one: self-control, self-denial, the way of the boycott & doing more with less. of the thousands of talking heads we have today, cathy fitts is the only one smart enough to understand this.

[syzar]

Capping material quantity is a fix for overconsumption provided the political system in place is robust enough and has the will to enforce the cap. What I address is solely quantity of material possessions.

[georgia_peach]

altogether ignoring matters of quality