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theHRguy@lemmy.world to Work Reform@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

A Tax of 5% on The World’s Multi-Millionaires and Billionaires Could Raise $1.7 trillion, Enough to Lift 2 Billion People out of Poverty

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theHRguy@lemmy.world to Work Reform@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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Taxing the Ultra-Rich Could Lift 2 Billion Out of Poverty
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    If we switched to eating billionaires instead of eating beef for one day that would solve world hunger indefinitely, food for thought

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        Dark.

        Just the way I like my baby meat.

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      You do realize that their money doesn’t go back into the economy when they die, right? They have living wills. It just makes someone else a billionaire. It’s not like you can kill a billionaire and all their money spews out like Sonic the Hedgehog’s rings.

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        You just keep eating the heirs until it all ‘trickles down’, you see.

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        Sounds to me like it’s a well stocked food supply then.

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          Or it’s a funny thing to write that distracts us from actionable solutions.

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        I’m sure the contingency is eating the inheritors until no one is left. It’s billionaires all the way down!

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        Don’t worry. We’ll make it a “Family Dinner” 🤫🔪

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        Billionaire day repeats anytime someone crosses over the threshold

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        You don’t eat them to liberate their money. You eat them to show others of their kind what happens to those who hoard wealth away from the needy.

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          And that compels their peers to be charitable to the murderous cannibals how?

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            Perhaps a slight aversion to being the 2nd course.

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