Personally, I’d like to abolish the stock market altogether. But this is an attractive, actionable policy

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    21 days ago

    Fuck taxes. Taxes was the compromise and they broke that agreement. Throw all of these billionaires in prison and criminalize ownership, control or influence of wealth over a maximum.

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      21 days ago

      Did you read the article? The tax is in the form of mandatory share dilution that can’t be evaded. Obviously more thorough changes are preferable, but this is a system that could work immediately.

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        Of course not. It’s the internet. Unless it includes all asset classes and deals with stewardship of imagined entities that own things (corporations, charities, non profits etc), I have doubts. Especially if the ppl most prolific at evading community accountability are not thrown in prison and barred from wielding power.

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          If your perspective is “Anything less than perfect isn’t even worth considering” then this might not be the community for you. It’s not that I disagree with your underlying sentiment of desiring actual meaningful change, but that’s not what this community is about.

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              There’s a difference between perfect and effective. Less than perfectly effective is still effective. Less than perfectly effective, when perfect is presently unobtainable, is what this community is about. This is less than perfectly effective.

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                21 days ago

                So long as the players can keep playing, changing the rules of the game isn’t an effective solution.

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                  21 days ago

                  It’s not perfectly effective. It accomplishes something.

                  Some of us don’t want to live our lives on standby until the rules of the game change. Sure, we should change them, but that’s a multi-generational task.

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                    21 days ago

                    It isn’t effective enough to be worth doing. I’m not chasing perfection, as you keep insisting, just recognizing history.