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  • ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com
    271·
    5 months ago

    I’m pretty aware of all the caveats about assets and the market dynamics and net worth and yada yada but uh, yeah, wealth kinda does work like that, actually…

    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      Depends on what you mean by “wealth like that”. A 10% tax on everything he owns would be like 50% of his personal wealth.

      But yeah, we can definitely do better than 0%…

      • fatcat@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        31·
        4 months ago

        Read that comment about three times and can’t figure out if that’s meant to be a bad thing? 50% of his personal wealth would leave still leave a absurdly huge sum of money.

      • Buffalox@lemmy.world
        1·
        4 months ago

        10% tax on everything he owns would be like 50% of his personal wealth.

        That doesn’t make any sense? 10% tax on all he owns is 10% of his personal wealth.
        Obviously all he owns = His personal wealth.

        But yeah, we can definitely do better than 0%

        Definitely, 1% should be a no-brainer, 2% would be better. 😀

        • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
          12·
          4 months ago

          That doesn’t make any sense? 10% tax on all he owns is 10% of his personal wealth.

          Personal wealth does not include investments and assets. That’s net worth.

    • abc@suppo.fi
      17·
      4 months ago

      25 upvotes, no downvotes.

      Do better, lemmyverse.

        • abc@suppo.fi
          15·
          4 months ago

          Except for elitism, I am and post none of those things. Elitism is great when applied properly and with humility. Surely the actually most capable people should be leading things.

          I’m all for seeing opinions that differ from mine, but outright ignorance that everybody is cheering is disgusting and indeed very anti-elitist in the worst way.

          I can and will fix this myself though. Some lemmy clients allow hiding the scores, just unfortunately not the default client of my instance.