166 points

That’s a great salary even if divided between 10,000 people.

Fuck billionaires, leeches

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69 points

That’s 100k for those in the back. Really puts this greed into perspective, there is absolutely no reason for any individual to be hoarding this much money. For many people that would literally be life changing

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45 points

It’s a mental disorder, similar to hoarding, and they all need psychological help.

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30 points

And the saddest thing about it is that a lot of people admire it.

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20 points

If you want to stretch it a little further, this would be enough to very comfortably support just shy of 74,000 students in Australia per year.

That’s roughly an extra third of what our government offers right now.

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44 points

This is exactly why you do a progressive tax rate that charges a huge percent (50+) for every penny earned over 20 million.

They can still get these massive bonuses, but get would be better off putting that money into wages that aren’t taxed so much.

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21 points

50% for 20 million sounds insane to me. I’d be clamoring for 75% or more. I’m in Ontario and people making something like 250000 CAD already have a marginal rate above 50% IIRC. Before anyone calls me a lazy commie, my marginal rate is in the mid 40s already, and I’m happy to do my part.

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1 point

How do you feel about 37%?

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18 points

Oh honey, that’s so much more conservative than I’d tax. 100% over a million, easy.

They don’t deserve huge bonuses so I’m not interested in letting them keep anything that insane. There should be a cap on income based upon the median wage or something IMO.

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12 points

I’ll meet you in the middle at 75

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6 points

I’d back tax them.

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6 points

The UK tax bands will blow your mind.

Like 40% for anything over 50k. Which I’m fine with btw.

https://www.gov.uk/income-tax-rates

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7 points

None of these people earn their fortunes in a way that is affected by income tax.

They’re not taking billions in cold hard cash every year.

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1 point

It’s probably not bad when you factor in healthcare. Especially the middle class that doesn’t get free healthcare but also pays the same as the super wealthy.

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2 points

20 million?? No way, bring that down to like 250k.

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1 point

We used to have that here in the US.

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2 points

Thank you Reagan and Bush

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2 points

Anybody else think there should be a money limit? Like at a certain point you get a message: Congratulations, you completed capitalism. Now every additional cent you make is going to be taxed at 100%

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Oh absolutely, if we aren’t replacing capitalism we need to install hard limits.

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77 points

Developers developers developers developers

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One of the only public statements he was right about.

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17 points

YEEEEAAAAAAARRERRGGGGGGGHHHHH!!

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8 points

Okay, that too.

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3 points

I would hate to see that guy when he’s constipated.

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66 points

Billionaires gonna billionaire.

“Hustle and grind bro. Get that bread”

It doesn’t matter if you hustle and bring every single day for the rest of your life, you will never have a billion dollars.

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21 points

Save that $5 a day and put it in a mutual fund and in 10 years you’ll make nothing because inflation will eat any growth you might have had

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64 points

Describes most billionaires actually

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But giving someone at the bare minimum support from the state is apparently setting the wrong incentive. They say free money for doing nothing is communism and makes people lazy while giving a billinaire billlions for doing nothing is late capitalist doublespeak. I hope he suffocates on it.

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This is free money in the way that it’s a return on his investment. This has nothing to do with the state other than they will collect tax revenue on this distribution annually.

This should be a motivational post to get people investing. heck of a retirement payout this guy’s getting.

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This should be a motivational post to get people investing.

Totally, because people who are struggling just love to take risks with their money.

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0 points

What risk? Market goes up, the Rich ain’t gonna let that stop so you may as well catch on the coat tails.

Past performance is not indicative of future earnings. Consult an investment professional or just send me your banking details. Same same.

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