They'd go on about how much good they did with their money until you wanted to haul out a guillotine just to shut them up.
Try: must produce a list of 5 strangers they personally helped in the last week, even to give them directions or a seat on the bus.
Keep track of it: most of us (if we even did keep track of it) could produce five a week.
And they could not. They do not live the kind of lifestyle where they *interact* with ordinary people, much less tell them the time.
If they can justify it, they get to keep 10%.
I know. But I do have other conditions. 90% income tax, unrealised CGT (on $10M+), and 1% annual wealth tax (also on $10M+). If they really are good at whet they do, they should get to keep managing the operation.
What exactly is that supposed to mean?
Let me fix this to make it better:
All billionaires m̶u̶s̶t̶ s̶u̶b̶m̶i̶t̶ a̶ l̶i̶s̶t̶ o̶f̶ f̶i̶v̶e̶ t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶s̶ t̶h̶e̶y̶ d̶i̶d̶ f̶o̶r̶ s̶o̶c̶i̶e̶t̶y̶ i̶n̶ t̶h̶e̶ l̶a̶s̶t̶ w̶e̶e̶k̶ o̶r̶ t̶h̶e̶i̶r̶ wealth shall be confiscated.
@Radical_EgoCom
Precisely - it's got nothing to do with deserving. Imagine if someone rolled into town and just bought up all the food in the grocery store. It doesn't matter if they've got the money, it's avarice to take more than you need.
@MostlyHarmless
PS. I although I realise the original toot is meant to be a glib riff and not, like, policy.
Take the wealth of the rich. They didn't earn it, and they don't need it.
@MostlyHarmless Mere submission of such a list is not sufficient, or else they could get away with saying things like "Saving taxpayers a bunch of money by increasing government efficiency".
These people live and breathe bullshit.
If we forcefully take the rich capitalists stolen wealth, we won't need their handouts (of our stolen wages) either. #socialism #capitalism
Its not "their" wealth, its pirate booty, its stolen gold, it's tax avoidance,its wage theft, its pension theft, its leaving the costs of doing business to taxpayers, its offshoring, its environmental degradation, its coercive market control, its monopolies, its monopsonies, its slave labour in offshore factories, its unsafe working conditions.
Billionaires aren't wealthy.
Ffs, its not "their" money, its pirate gold.
Billionaires are an alarm of failure.
Billionaires? We can't afford them.
How about they submit their five things, we feed it to an AI model, then use that model to identify people who talk and think like those billionaires? Maybe Luigi will be available to talk to them by then.