This is why I never understood the need for charities.
There is more then enough to feed and house and clothe everyone in the world, yet kids are starving while supermarkets dump good food to the garbage, every day, but not until after making sure it’s destroyed. Wouldn’t want a hungry child get some food without paying, now would we?
I am okay with limited capitalism, it can help generate growth for everyone like nothing else.
However, mind the word “limited”. Laws MUST be in place to ensure no one can become extremely rich, let alone ultra rich. Net worth should, no, MUST be capped at 10 million dollars. Once you reach that, that’s it, 100% tax on anything you earn until you dip below. Even those over 5 million networth should be taxed at 90% or something. Those with a net worth of less than 100K should have almost no taxes at all. Those that can’t work pay no taxes at all or get government paid support.
Make it easy to escape poverty, make it hard to become rich
Of course these are somewhat random numbers pulled out of my behind, an exceptions apply for certain circumstances, but the idea stands.
Why do we even allow the ultra wealthy to exist in the first place? Take way their money, all of it until they have maybe a few millions left, and give it to the governments that can then use it for public projects, housing, healthcare, education, etc.
Prohibit private healthcare or private education. Everyone deserves the exact same level and quality of education or healthcare. Being rich, famous or “important” doesn’t matter at all.
Fuck mega yachts, these should be prohibited world wide. Want a boat? Fine, get a boat. Want a mega yacht? Go sit in a cruise ship you dingus.
Fuck private planes with an umbrella. Immediately take away all private planes and use them only for flights like hospital transportation and the sorts. Nobody is important enough to need a private plane. President? Go get fucking zoom or better yet, an open platform.
It’s not that hard to fix any of this, it’s just that there is zero will to do this.
That’s why I always roll my eyes when you have these wealthy retired philanthropists like the Gates going on podcasts preaching about how important xyz issue is, when they don’t give a damn about tax reform that can actually create a better standard of living floor for society so that there’s more opportunity for people to come up with a better solution to xyz.
But charities make idiots think these rich people care.
Can’t wait to be corrected about how “they help humanity in the end” when they promise to “give away money to their own charity after death” when epstein files come out.
I’m not disagreeing with the rest of your post, but the grocery store destroying the food is for liability reasons. A local grocery store would throw out expired food that they could not sell and someone dug some cooked rotiserie chicken out of the trash out back, ate it and died from complications due to food poisioning. His family sued AND WON because the grocery store was negligent in not destroying the food, which “lured” the hungry man to eat it since it was still in it’s on the shelf packaging and did not say that it was spoiled.
This is why I never understood the need for charities.
There is more then enough to feed and house and clothe everyone in the world, yet kids are starving while supermarkets dump good food to the garbage, every day, but not until after making sure it’s destroyed. Wouldn’t want a hungry child get some food without paying, now would we?
I am okay with limited capitalism, it can help generate growth for everyone like nothing else.
However, mind the word “limited”. Laws MUST be in place to ensure no one can become extremely rich, let alone ultra rich. Net worth should, no, MUST be capped at 10 million dollars. Once you reach that, that’s it, 100% tax on anything you earn until you dip below. Even those over 5 million networth should be taxed at 90% or something. Those with a net worth of less than 100K should have almost no taxes at all. Those that can’t work pay no taxes at all or get government paid support.
Make it easy to escape poverty, make it hard to become rich
Of course these are somewhat random numbers pulled out of my behind, an exceptions apply for certain circumstances, but the idea stands.
Why do we even allow the ultra wealthy to exist in the first place? Take way their money, all of it until they have maybe a few millions left, and give it to the governments that can then use it for public projects, housing, healthcare, education, etc.
Prohibit private healthcare or private education. Everyone deserves the exact same level and quality of education or healthcare. Being rich, famous or “important” doesn’t matter at all.
Fuck mega yachts, these should be prohibited world wide. Want a boat? Fine, get a boat. Want a mega yacht? Go sit in a cruise ship you dingus.
Fuck private planes with an umbrella. Immediately take away all private planes and use them only for flights like hospital transportation and the sorts. Nobody is important enough to need a private plane. President? Go get fucking zoom or better yet, an open platform.
It’s not that hard to fix any of this, it’s just that there is zero will to do this.
That’s why I always roll my eyes when you have these wealthy retired philanthropists like the Gates going on podcasts preaching about how important xyz issue is, when they don’t give a damn about tax reform that can actually create a better standard of living floor for society so that there’s more opportunity for people to come up with a better solution to xyz.
But charities make idiots think these rich people care.
Can’t wait to be corrected about how “they help humanity in the end” when they promise to “give away money to their own charity after death” when epstein files come out.
I’m not disagreeing with the rest of your post, but the grocery store destroying the food is for liability reasons. A local grocery store would throw out expired food that they could not sell and someone dug some cooked rotiserie chicken out of the trash out back, ate it and died from complications due to food poisioning. His family sued AND WON because the grocery store was negligent in not destroying the food, which “lured” the hungry man to eat it since it was still in it’s on the shelf packaging and did not say that it was spoiled.