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by ickelbawd
365 days ago
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I like the spirit of your efforts. But without simultaneously fracturing and shrinking the power of capitalist elites your ideas wrt to government pay transparency seems destined to fail. Everyone likes making money—even when they already have enough. Sure, pay each politician 1 million dollars a year. They’re still over 100,000 times poorer than the richest in our society. They’ll still be corruptible and liable to influence by the monied elite. They’ll still get gifts in return for favor. And with more positions it’ll be easier to rotate people in and retire them out to receive their bribes held in escrow contingent upon their votes. And my god the amount of pork shoved into bills to satisfy 1300 different representatives!!! If congress wasn’t already in a dead stop before it will be now. My inner cynic says it’s going to take a violent revolution followed by a complete reshaping of society from the top down. Or a total dissolution of the Union combined with a complete social reversal on money and work. |
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A crazy number of people will read crazy long comments tho, so when I noticed that 7-8 months ago, I took to the Internet and started dropping "bite sized" pieces of ideas that I only had crumbs of.
I've been actively contemplating, researching, imagining, discussing, generally working towards a New America - with only what I didn't want it to be as a guide.
That new America has to include an economic system that BOTH motivates and mandates activities that corrects the current imbalance of wealth distribution AND it must also implement simultaneously changes that prevent such an imbalance again fr occuring in the foreseeable future.
I'm about done actually. Motivation was everything. A billionaire is motivated by the pursuit of money - so that's where we get them.
They can be billionaires, but we are going to gamify their pursuit of our collective monies, so much so that between massively increasing tax brackets/rates on those in the upper echelons - we also make them do stuff and things with their money - or they literally hit maximum limits in their bank accounts/investment brokerages - perhaps there is maximum wealth total, so if the taxes don't get it and the billionaires too mentally ill with dragon sickness to spend it on their missions to level up - then they can't claim or accept a single dollar more until they do.
Essentially, I turned regulations into incentives and incentives into regulations tho how exactly is hard to explain - it's not standalone and ought to be utilized alongside an asset value tax - a small tax on the fair market value of any and all assets above x amount, and owned by someone with a net worth of greater than x amount.
Without just explaining more I'll skip to the end.
If assets don't just appreciate in value - tho the ones like single family homes will actually appear to be become negative value by the 3rd or maybe 4th home owned by/between the same property own owner, all directly due to increasing taxes on fees applied to all properties owned by said person