• jh29a@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 months ago

      I’ve been thinking: if we’re a nice kind of government, couldn’t we just print the money we’re going to use to for example, give americans in poverty 10000$ ? This would “just devalue the money the rich people have”, so something about international exchange rates is propably the thing that stops me from mentally circumventing the freedom-based value that we can’t just take money people have earned. really gross food for thought

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        2 months ago

        The biggest problem with that is that rich people don’t actually have massive piles of cash, they have massive piles of stocks. Devalue the currency, and their stocks are worth a lot more actual cash

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    2 months ago

    Kinda crazy how one layer of that is more money than most people will ever have available at any given time, and he has over 25,000 layers

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      2 months ago

      “Kinda”?

      It’s insane.

      I think millionaires are fine, but billionaires are excessively rich. If literally everything in society was fine than maybe, sure, but until then…

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        If everything in society was fine, I’m pretty sure becoming a billionaire would be actually impossible.