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In reply to the discussion: Would a very low income tax and a very high inheritance tax please everybody? [View all]Baobab
(4,667 posts)never have that level of skill, HOWEVER, we would have a equal opportunity, many people would become very good at different things, and some of those things would become businesses and do well, because thats what happens when you let people be creative. i actually think the economy would after a period of time of adjustment, return to a sustaiinable state. the idea is, since so few people will be working we do want people to do constructive things with their time and also we don't want a society of extreme differences in wealth to become so out of control as it will now, basically a genocide is inevitable on the path we are on now- because so few people will have a chance to have a life.
It will be a world of favelas- slums made with radioactive, toxic garbage filled with toxic pollution mutated humans,with walled communities for the very wealthy, where the water is drinkable and air breatheable, but high levels of stress because fewer and fewer people will be making the cut, the stress will be so great that everybody will be afraid of one another.. There will be no trust.
That world is very very expensive. trust saves a lot of money. By throwing it away we are basically throwing away a lot of money.
maybe thats what they want?