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minus-squareSoftestSapphic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down6·edit-21 day agoShe’s not totally wrong If we gave every American 1 billion dollars the current billionaires would lose massive amounts of power and it would help fix wealth inequality.
minus-squareBatman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·15 hours agoIf they had their money scrooge mcduck style. But the assets they own will explode in value almost proportionally to the value of the dollar
minus-squareSoftestSapphic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·15 hours agoOh yeah they would also need to be forcibly stripped of their assets
minus-squareHadriscus@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·13 hours agoI thought that went without saying
minus-squareBatman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 hours agoHah, well I’ll go to this strip club.
minus-squareAqarius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down2·1 day agoThat wouldn’t work because the bilionaires don’t have money, they have assets, AKA capital.
minus-squareMuskyMelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·20 hours agoDo that and get ready for 100,000 dollars for a dozen eggs cause the market will charge what it knows the customer can pay.
minus-squareSoftestSapphic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·16 hours agoThat’s the point. The poorer groups will pay the same amount of their wealth proportionally for things, but the proportional wealth of the rich will be dimished.
She’s not totally wrong
If we gave every American 1 billion dollars the current billionaires would lose massive amounts of power and it would help fix wealth inequality.
If they had their money scrooge mcduck style. But the assets they own will explode in value almost proportionally to the value of the dollar
Oh yeah they would also need to be forcibly stripped of their assets
I thought that went without saying
Hah, well I’ll go to this strip club.
That wouldn’t work because the bilionaires don’t have money, they have assets, AKA capital.
Do that and get ready for 100,000 dollars for a dozen eggs cause the market will charge what it knows the customer can pay.
That’s the point.
The poorer groups will pay the same amount of their wealth proportionally for things, but the proportional wealth of the rich will be dimished.