The statement, signed by high-profile figures including Ocar-nominated actor Mark Ruffalo and musician Brian Eno
I mean… I appreciate that they have the spirit, but mark ruffalo and Brian Eno are hardly the problem. Being generous, together they have around a hundred million dollars, which is more than any person should be worth.
However, the real problem is that Elon Musk is worth more than 8000 of these two put together. We don’t just need to raise taxes, we need complete tax reform that makes it impossible for people to have billions or even hundreds of millions of dollars.
People having hundreds of millions or even a few billion dollars arent even the problem. Its the handful of people that have tens or hundreds of billions of dollars that are the problem.
Hundred millionaires still spend their money and could feasibly spend it all in pretty short order if they wanted to. Someone with hundreds of billions of dollars could never move all that money if they tried. Money needs to be spent to be useful to society. The problem is that so much money is locked up
It’s weird how you can say “Power should be limited to avoid authoritarian behavior” and “money is power” people agree. Then you say “Personal wealth should be limited” and suddenly everyone has a problem.
As long as you limit it to a log curve, nobody has any problem. Put a constant boundary, and people will start to ask why you should have that power.
How about paying your politicians to just do it instead of begging in the public sphere
