• DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, I’m a leftist, I just think landlords have their place, billionaires are job creators, and if we disrupt the status quo too much the global south might stop giving us resources for nothing- A Great Mind

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      1 year ago

      At that point they don’t work with us. Does’t necessarily mean we have to be rivals.

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        1 year ago

        I think exactly that way and am as left as you can be in the Finnish mainstream party system, with the exception of small sub-1% parties like the Communist Party.

        Landlords & Billionaires = living, breathing taxation waiting to happen

        Even if we were to tax a billionaire by 80%, they would probably still be a billionaire. However, they would also indeed be creating jobs, wealth and sustainable growth. School systems, medicine, hospitals, city infrastructure, job placement programmes, you name it, they fund it.

        Corporate tax is also grossly under-utilized.

        Capitalism isn’t bad if you tax it hard and use the money for the welfare of citizens.

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          However, they would also indeed be creating jobs, wealth and sustainable growth.

          Not really. They don’t create jobs, at best they are the organizers. And since they are usually heirs, there might be much better people to manage such a large organization. We don’t need them at all.

          The best course of action is to remove the possibility for people concentrating such vast amounts of power in the first place. Billionaires can always buy legislation back, which is why that tight regulation or taxation will never really happen under capitalism.

          I mean just look at how inactive democrats are at office compared to current conservatives at passing the things people actually want. We have been trying this forever already, but they are most probably in the pockets of bigger fish at this point.

          None of that stops you from, say, joining an union though.

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      1 year ago

      If we don’t support the landchads, the wagies and rentoids might take control and believe they have rights