Musk’s Wealth2012: $2 billion2026: $827.2 billion

[dero_10@thecanadian.social]

@Strandjunker What about Trump?

[adredish@neuromatch.social]

@Strandjunker

Annual NIH budget $48 billion.

For comparison.

[luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Strandjunker it would be great, but nobody's gonna do it. A real tax would require a hell of a revolution, and that isn't gonna happen in any 'western', 'modern' country.
Any supporting politician knows that an instability is a potential disaster, so they're trained to inflame first and to chill down if getting in charge.
Any big revolution has shown well to pass thru poverty, despair, isolation, and return to even stricter absolutisms.
So what? If I had good advice I wouldn't be here.

[jcarax@mastodon.social]

@Strandjunker You spell 'eat' funny.

[a_no_nee_moose@nrw.social]

@Strandjunker sorry, the time for that to change anything has passed. We need more radical measures!

[oldfartphil@mastodon.social]

@Strandjunker Have you shopped for a superyacht recently? Inflation has been brutal and a billion just doesn't go as far as it used to. Won't someone think of the billionaires?

[nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social]

@Dero_10 @Strandjunker Pretty sure his net worth is like -$13 trillion.

[stellarsarah@mastodon.world]

@Strandjunker Elizabeth Warren is proposing a wealth tax. It's only 2% over $50 million and 3% over a billion... but better than nothing?

[mayhammonday@mstdn.ca]

@Strandjunker after listening to the latest social media court case win on the news if they aren't going to tax them, sue them for damages!

[fluffykittycat@furry.engineer]

@Strandjunker no wonder we're spiraling Into totalitarianism

[barbramon1@mas.to]

@Strandjunker Obscene.

[bebadefabo@mastodon.social]

@Strandjunker I can't help but notice that in that time span, none of them have managed to become resistant to high velocity rifle rounds.

[autolycos@beige.party]

@Strandjunker compost is a good synonym for tax

[reverendd@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Strandjunker Everything is so adulterated at this point if you want to keep the pretense of money you almost need to start over at zero and spank a bunch of people.

Or send them to an island to start a New Game + together.

[satanicpandick@kolektiva.social]

@Strandjunker Tax the rich. If they complain, we drop the "T" from "tax".

[wokeproudhappy@mastodon.social]

@Strandjunker these rich animals when they lose a PENNY their fire 10000s of employees so they can recup the PENNY

[mrtaylor@mastodon.social]

@Strandjunker
*eat the rich.

[archivescribe@mastodon.social]

@Strandjunker 100% income tax on all billionaires will solve this right and quick. Think of what we could do with that stolen loot for people in this country.