[ath3nd]

> you'll realize you are being systematically robbed by taxes that end up eating 70% of your income

Where does the water from your tap come from?

Where did you or your children go to study?

Did you make your own road, that you use to go to work?

Do you have a pension built up?

Do you fight your own fires and fight your own crime?

[ekianjo]

To be fair most of the taxes do not even go to what you describe and there is massive waste happening in the administrations.

[lores]

There is, unfortunately, in every large and small organisation. I can't say I've noticed any particular qualitative difference between the efficiencies of government departments and corps of equivalent size when I was working for them; if anything, the government employees were always conscious of the fact they were spending taxpayers' money that was not theirs, although I can't talk of the practical results.

If these organisations were private, waste would be equivalent, but they would lose the mentality of acting in the public interest, and there would be a profit margin taken off. I'm pretty sure it would not be an improvement overall, purely from a viewpoint of efficiency.

[ath3nd]

Better some waste happening in the public sector and a still a public road being built than a crypto bro buying a lambo from a windfall they made on a rug-pull from a meme coin.

If you don't artificially curb wealth accumulation with laws, taxes and wealth limits, you will always and inevitably end up having an accumulation of wealth that allows the rich to stay rich forever, and keep the rest perpetually in poverty. I have consistently been in the highest taxable bracket in my country, and am happy to contribute even a bigger % of my wealth towards the betterment of the living conditions of my country and city.

Sauce:

- https://ifs.org.uk/articles/inherited-wealth-course-be-much-...

- https://www.weforum.org/stories/2018/08/moving-up-the-income...

> The gap was most pronounced in the US: less than 10% of sons with low-earning fathers made it into the richest 25% of the population, while almost 50% of those with top-earning fathers grew up to become high earners themselves

Talk about "self-made". History has shown again and again that this can only go on as long until the poor and oppressed rise up, seize the wealth, and in the process, harm their "oppressors".

[freejazz]

Because giving it to Amazon is making society better?