[michaelt]

Perhaps joe-collins supports a steep tax discount on a first home - much like a society might apply a lower tax rate on books and apples than on Lamborghinis.

[davidrupp]

Perhaps followed by progressively higher tax rates on subsequent books and apples?

[henry2023]

If Apples were: 1. Essential to live 2. Considered a human right 3. Not accessible to >90% of the next generation 4. Being hoarded

Yeah, fast progressively higher tax rates based on the number of apples you own would be perfectly reasonable.

[davidrupp]

Who is the number one “hoarder” of houses in the U.S.? When I bought my house, all I had to deal with (as far as I know) was the bank and the prior owner, who seemed happy to sell.

[kbelder]

>If Apples were: 1. Essential to live 2. Considered a human right 3. Not accessible to >90% of the next generation

90% of the next generation is going to die from homelessness?

[davidrupp]

Okay. [citation needed] on all of the above.

[genocidicbunny]

1 is pretty easy to experimentally deduce -- simply go live outdoors wherever you are. Skip the tent, that's housing too. Just make yourself a little bedding spot in a tree somewhere like our ancestors did.

Pretty sure in most of the world, you wouldn't last long without some form of shelter or housing.

[tester457]

Instead of progressively make the tax rate a sigmoid growth curve with a long lag phase so no one monopolizes apples and books.