• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    16 days ago

    With my dictatorial powers … my first action would be to seize and outlaw extreme wealth. No one would be allowed to own more than $1 million.

    All the money collected would be used for government and providing a Universal Basic Income for everyone.

    And I’d get a designer to make me a big fancy hat.

    • stoy@lemmy.zip
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      16 days ago

      That is increadibly hard to do.

      1. How do you define what goes into that 1 million of allowed wealth? If I buy a house worth 950000, would I only be allowed to save 50000.
      2. what about if the house increase in value so that it is worth 2 million, should I just accept that I loose 1 million? What about stocks?
      3. Inflation or Deflation, when/how will you update that limit?
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        16 days ago

        I agree with your take on this. I think 1M is way too low. But 1 Billion… It’s a bit easier to imagine the “you can’t or the dictatorship will seize something” idea.

        The reality is that the wealthiest people usually influence the most

      • Little8Lost@lemmy.world
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        16 days ago

        I would probably also include the wealth one owns and not just money (because thats useless, they would just use a different currency) and set it to like 40-50 houses in value. If they own a company that gets bigger the country gets shares

        50 Houses might seem a lot in value (especially depending on what kind of building) but it already would distribute a lot of wealth + allowing the dream of being filthy rich with less consequences to the rest of the population

        Because its just an idea i dont think about the specifics of the exact limit and such