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I’ve met a lot of people who don’t agree with “billionaires shouldn’t exist”
The propaganda is so strong with this one. If you talk to someone who owns just about anything, they somehow imagine you're coming after them and their stuff if you even mention anything like taxing the rich, much less getting rid of people who own more than some entire counties.
Erm, no, that still doesn’t make their labour worth thousands of times more than the next person.
People I talk to know millionaire workaholics and think that but for some timing that person would be a billionaire because they don’t understand how orders of magnitude work. 100k in the bank vs 1 million is a much smaller barrier than 1 million vs 1 billion never mind 100 billion
I don't think people would stop at billionaires. They'd keep going until it got uncomfortably close to their own level of wealth, but the people worse off than them wouldn't stop there, either.
Provided we are talking about taxation not guillotines, it's that really a problem? In Norway, a doctor doesn't earn much more than a train ticket seller.
"Why study medicine", you ask? "Self actualisation." Is their answer. Remember, University is free in that system, so no student debt.
Money perverts incentives.